Derick Florian (he/him) @derickflorian@qoto.org

Folks, I want to boost your lovely posts, I really do but I won’t if you don’t write image descriptions (alt text) so people who use screen readers can also experience them.

It doesn’t take long to write one.

And if you’re posting an image of text and you have an iPhone, you can select the text from the image with a long press and copy/paste it.

Even Linux has apps that do this (like Frog: https://tenderowl.com/work/frog/)

#accessibility #a11y #fediverse #altText #images #screenReader #mastodon

Want to privatise the NHS? Think again!

MineClone2 version 0.81.0 (free Minecraft-like) for Minetest out now https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/12/mineclone2-version-0810-free-minecraft-like-for-minetest-out-now/ #FreeGame #OpenSource #Linux

I'm attempting #AdventofCode in #elm this year, which I will admit has been quite a challenge so far. #FunctionalProgramming is so weird!!! Hoping I start to see the light soon.

Answers here: https://github.com/bielsnohr/elm-advent-of-code

Asking a favor from #opensource #oss friends

Please help us understand the communities that comprise the open ecosystem by filling out an anonymous 5 mins survey. Each valid survey response will be a $5 donation to
@outreachy

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Feel free to boost! Thank you for your time!

I still see posts with people wanting no politics. So I will leave a reminder:

1. Politics = how we make decisions about living together in society.

2. Not participating in politics = endorsing the status quo.

3. Refusing to participate in politics is a privilege. It is also a decision to abandon those in a more vulnerable position.

You might want to abstain and that's fine.
But someone has to combat injustice, racism, misogyny, anti-Semitism and anti-LGBTQ hate.

I've noticed a few aggressive toots floating around disparaging people that don't "follow back". I strongly advise against telling other people how to curate their own timeline.

For some of us, following people comes with an associated mental and emotional cost. Following literally everyone back is unsustainable, unhealthy, and unreasonable. Please just focus on what you want to see on your own timeline and stop worrying about what's on everyone else's.

I would love to see more of this in #scifi aesthetics. Less flying cars and more bicycles, greenery, and walkability, please.

#solarpunk #conceptart #AIart #urbandesign #sciencefiction #scifiart #Midjourney

@derickflorian @pivotal not stalled, just a different approach to development/release from other languages.

As far as viability, checkout https://elm-radio.com/episode/elm-at-a-billion-dollar-company.

Republicans are against being "woke"

But what does "woke" mean?

Ryan Newman, Ron DeSantis’ General Counsel, defined it in court last week.

Woke is "the belief there are systemic injustices in American society and the need to address them," Newman says.

My current contract has been absolutely amazing. Sadly, it's also ending at the end of the year. I'm looking for a new contract.

My work for the last two years has been with one of the world's largest companies cleaning up their #perl code to handle #gdpr, #sox, #pii, and #authorization. I designed and built a system that replaced almost 70 different #oop classes with a single config file.

Please boost for visibility.

You can read a case study of one project at https://ovid.github.io/articles/project-500.html