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@glyph@mastodon.social "… THESE ARE THEIR STORIES. *DUM DUM*"

@mr_jack@piaille.fr @maiwann@framapiaf.org Idéalement c'est pour les deux, les filles pouvant aussi outrepasser le consentement de leurs partenaires. Mais j'imagine qu'OP demande simplement pour l'ado avec qui elle a une relation éducative.

@paulrosen Damn. Valid use case.

@NatalyaD The text styles in the screenshot are alright, it's a subtle text-shadow effect used to reinforce contrast as seen in the first paragraph. The issue arises when the background color changes due to the selection.

The selection background color can vary wildly based on the OS, browser and user settings. I'm on macOS with a pink highlight color, this translates to a dark pink color for selections in Firefox, not sure what Safari does.

Theoretically one could do:

::selection {
  background: highlight;
  color: highlighttext;
}

But the highlighttext value didn't work correctly in my tests. I'll have to try more things and document what I find.

I remember an article claiming that maybe ~15% of users used text selection as a reading aid in some tests (on desktop computers, might be lower on mobile). Can’t find a source right now, and would be happy for any link if someone knows. I know that I do this, and have heard anecdotal evidence from others that they do it as well. I have ADHD and can easily lose track of what I’m reading, I can end up re-reading the same paragraph a few times, etc. I also wonder if some people with dyslexia use text selection/highlighting as a digital equivalent of physical tools (reading rulers and color overlays).

CSS tip: make sure that selected text remains readable. Style `::selection` to at least disable text effects like drop shadows, gradient fills, etc.

A decent chunk of your users treat text selection as a reading aid, highlighting words or paragraphs to keep track of their position in the text.

Some personal/work news: I was laid off mid 2024 and took a sabbatical, which quickly turned into taking care of my pregnant partner (part time job) and then our twin babies (full time job ^^). How time flies! We also moved to Réunion recently.

I will be looking for remote work soon (timezone is UTC+2). I have close to 20 years experience in frontend/UI dev and associated skills (UX, full stack dev, e2e testing, wrangling developer tooling for entire teams, etc). If you have some remote and maybe even part time opportunities for me, don't be shy!

I know things are strange nowadays with projects vibecoding themselves into uncharted corners (while hoping it doesn't blow up in their faces). I'm still hopeful there's good work to be done.

Anyway if anyone was looking for the latest DNG specifications, they are available at: Adobe: https://helpx.adobe.com/camera-raw/digital-negative.html ISO: https://www.iso.org/standard/86123.html

Bonus point for the Adobe one is that they seem to have published or circulated two different versions without incrementing the publication date or the spec’s version number. So some people have a DNG 1.7.1.0 PDF that says “this is not allowed”, and others have one that say “this is allowed”.

After a couple decades reading standards from W3C et al, it’s a shock when you try to read some other specification published by someone else.

Adobe: sure, try to fish out some PDF from the unsearchable entrails of our many websites.
ISO: here it is, that will cost you CHF 227 for a 100-page PDF.

The Child Monitor app on f-droid looks alright but it only supports Android, I'd need to use a laptop as a server or client (interchangeably).

Anyone knows a cross-platform app that can stream audio/video from one device to another on the same wifi network? Everything I find is for phones, but I need it on a laptop too.

Basically trying to do a babyphone/nannycam thing. Not routing through the global internet please (I'm in the ocean, latency is high).

Also I don't have a job currently, I'm busy full time with childcare and prepping our move abroad, and plan to look for a job or freelance contracts right after that. I feel like trying out some AI coding tools is going to be a requirement in my job search, so not sure I have the luxury to have a strict "AI, not even once" policy.

So, consensus among devs who use AI coding tools is that Anthropic and OpenAI's models/agents are finally good now (since Dec 2025). It's reaching a critical mass which makes me think *maybe* I should try those. But I also don't have too much cash and don't want to fund school bombings. Thoughts?

Extra background:

- I don't like all the other ethical issues with those companies. It's not just the school bombing thing.
- Deeply wary of the impact of generated code on medium and long term software health.
- Use case that interests me is asking a LLM for rough guidance through a codebase.

@argv_minus_one @jonny @aslakr @glyph You asked if you could have it, not if you could have it for free ^^ There are more tools, many commercial, listed here: https://www.print-css.rocks/tools For a FOSS solution, WeasyPrint is interesting, but is more limited than Prince/PDFReactor/AntennaHouse. https://weasyprint.org/

@bitflipped @akareilly I tend to agree for single-author projects, but I think people in FOSS use this as an excuse for bad behavior and/or for dismissing accessibility. There are plenty of NGOs where volunteers will be shown the door if they break the code of conduct or don't care about specific requirements. This view of volunteer work where you just do what you like is strangely specific to FOSS.

@ide@masto.ai @brettk@indieweb.social @timnitGebru@dair-community.social Shareware. (Apologies if I’m just explaining the joke.)

@p4bl0@mamot.fr @robinhood@yiff.life May need to be updated to remove "grandparents" and add "children, nephews and nieces" by now.

@nixCraft@mastodon.social A kind of desire path, maybe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desire_path

@niecar@mastodon.social @getkirby@mastodon.social It's almost like utility CSS approaches are, by design, a bad fit for CMS content 😛

@getkirby@mastodon.social The DefaultPage model is exactly what I’ve been doing manually in Kirby 3! It's nice that I won't have to define empty classes that extend it, and won't have to manually include site/models/default.php anymore.