1. ximm Jan 5, 2026 parent

   I absolutely hate this argument. Everything in CSS is public (as in: can interface with HTML), not global. Think of writing CSS as designing an API.
2. ximm Jan 2, 2026 parent

   It is a Maneki-neko (beckoning cat / Winkekatze). The video team started putting them on podiums so they could see when a stream was frozen. So it became kind of a mascot.
3. ximm Dec 23, 2025 parent

   This is probably a Linux issue. Mac OS and Windows implement the FIDO2 Platform API, which allows them to act as authenticators themselves. Linux does not. See https://github.com/linux-credentials.
4. ximm Dec 23, 2025 parent

   I also think these are very similar. The main difference in my view is that the state parameter is checked by the client, while PKCE is checked by the server.

   I run an authentication server and requiring PKCE allows me to make sure that XSS protection is handled for all clients.

5. ximm Dec 18, 2025 parent

   > For coders, visual aesthetics don’t matter. For lawyers, they are a technical requirement. While this difference may seem arbitrary on the surface, it is downstream of a critical technical difference between the two fields. Machines interpret the work of coders. Human institutions interpret the work of lawyers.

   I believe this is not only infuriating, I am pretty sure it is actually illegal. If lawyers would think that visuals are more important than semantics, they would explicitly discriminate blind people.

6. ximm Dec 13, 2025 parent

   100% this. When I reached the end of that page I felt pranked because the obvious question was never answered. How are these cases resolved? Is it possible to fix some inputs and only update others? What if I sometimes want to change input A, and other times I want to update input B? All this should be explained as early as possible.
7. 2 points Nov 28, 2025

   Docker breaks DNS on all custom bridge networks

   0 comments ximm docker.com
8. ximm Aug 25, 2025 parent

   Last time I checked hyprland was pretty much despised in the wider linux developer community. See for example https://drewdevault.com/2023/09/17/Hyprland-toxicity.html. Has anything about that changed?
9. ximm Aug 25, 2025 parent

   There is no real difference between ratio and difference. It is just scaled with a logarithm. See https://blog.ce9e.org/posts/2022-09-10-contrast-algorithms/ for details.
10. ximm Aug 25, 2025 parent

    Any reference to APCA has been removed from the WCAG 3 drafts in 2023 (see https://github.com/w3c/silver/commit/d5b364de1004d76caa7ddc4...).

    I am not sure what the status is.

11. ximm Aug 15, 2025 parent

    > Hundreds of thousands of cars physically move along roads and have to break, accelerate and change lanes in traffic to safely get to their destination. Future work: Other modes of transport (pedestrians, light & heavy rail, airports, etc.). Multi-modal pathfinding (combining walking, public transport, taxis and driving to reach destinations).

    So this is a US simulator.

12. ximm May 19, 2025 parent

    What are the UN Open Source Principles? Can anyone share a link to the original document? I could not find anything relevant on Google.
13. ximm May 13, 2025 parent

    Damn, I had planned to go shopping on that day!
14. ximm May 2, 2025 parent

    Client must provide a proof-of-work. There is no standard for that, so the only way is to implement the client-side code in javascript.

    It would be great if there was a standard for that so that all kinds of clients knew how to provide a proof of work, e.g. like this:

      WWW-Authenticate: Proof-Of-Work difficulty=5 challenge=XYZ
      Authorization: Proof-Of-Work abc
    

    Where sha256(abcXYZ) would have to start with at least 5 zeros.
15. ximm May 2, 2025 parent

    Webauthn always requires a user presence check though.
16. ximm Apr 30, 2025 parent

    There was the "Do Not Track" header, but I don't think any sites that actually honored it. And it is deprecated now.

    On Firefox we still have webRequestBlocking, so it is quite simple to block cookies. See for example https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ximatrix/

17. ximm Apr 13, 2025 parent

    Nice use of the ch and lh units!
18. ximm Mar 22, 2025 parent

    This looks nice, but I fail to see any use cases that cannot be handled with bwrap and mount namespaces.
19. ximm Mar 21, 2025 parent

    > have a theory that every major technology shift happened when one part of the stack collapsed with another.

    If that was true, we would ultimately end up with a single layer. Instead I would say that major shifts happen when we move the boundaries between layers.

    The author here proposes to replace servers by synced client-side data stores.

    That is certainly a good idea for some applications, but it also comes with drawbacks. For example, it would be easier to avoid stale data, but it would be harder to enforce permissions.

20. ximm Mar 8, 2025 parent

    I agree, but at least it is consistent. This is also how `for`, `list`, `aria-labelledby`, `aria-describedby`, and probably many other attributes work.
21. ximm Feb 27, 2025 parent

    This is a nicely written description of some of the things that flatpak does under the hood for people who know docker. Of course, flatpak does a lot more (e.g. filtered dbus access).

    I personally think that flatpak is not the end of history and we should continue to experiment with different approaches.

22. ximm Feb 7, 2025 parent

    The one thing I thought was IMHO missing from this article was JavaScript.

    In HTML, it is pretty natural to add white space (i.e. text nodes containing white space) between all elements. You basically only have to worry if you want to avoid that.

    In JavaScript, the opposite is true. If you want to create a text node, you have to do so explicitly. If you just create elements and append them to the same parent, they will be added without whitespace.

    I am not sure how JSX behaves in this regard. Last time I checked it was more like JavaScript than HTML, which was of curse very confusing for people.

23. ximm Feb 7, 2025 parent

    Concerning text-to-speech and the missing separation of HTML and CSS: There are several open issues about this in the spec that defines how accessible names and descriptions are computed from HTML elements: https://github.com/w3c/accname/issues?q=state%3Aopen%20label...
24. ximm Feb 7, 2025 parent

    I expected an uninformed rant and actually got a really well informed, balanced rant. I don't agree that this is a major issue, but every time I thought of a counter argument it was immediately addressed in the article. Well done!
25. ximm Jan 29, 2025 parent

    If you love it so much, here is another one: https://blog.ce9e.org/posts/2025-01-07-oidc/
26. ximm Dec 24, 2024 parent

    I prefer using language agnostic tools where possible because that is both simpler and allows me to use the same tools with every language. For example, git, grep, or vim all work on any text file. vim has a few language specific settings though (e.g. syntax highlighting).
27. ximm Dec 24, 2024 parent

    I have an alias for `vim -p $(git grep -li "$1") +"/$1"` that allows me to quickly open files that contain a given string.
28. ximm Dec 16, 2024 parent

    Making energy expensive is kind of the point, isn't it? The cost of destroying the planet was not billed in so far, so we need to correct that.
29. ximm Dec 16, 2024 parent

    For context: Losing this vote was intended. The government already fell apart in November, so this is the next formal step towards new elections.
30. ximm Oct 29, 2024 parent

    I never really understood why people want to style stuff like this. I like how you can express yourself by using colors and layout and stuff like that. But at some point usability is more important than branding.

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