“Haha lol banks use 60 year old programming languages!”

Yes, young whippersnapper, that’s because they need things to be reliable and not change all the time, the code probably has to run for another 60 years.

“Modern” devs could learn a lot from not trying chase every trendy new framework and every shiny new programming language.

@thomasfuchs

In reply to @weirdwriter.

@weirdwriter @AppleVis I totally get needing to pick a single editor, and in the case of sighted and blind content managers working together it's almost always going to have to be the block editor. But AV's declaration that it's accessible at this point is one hell of a reach. And we're still talking about simple sites. I'm just going to leave more complicated sites than basic text/image alone for now because spoiler alert: the block editor will +

In a meeting at work today I was explaining #Protactile and I told a story about how I used it and said “I find it really helpful, for understanding where things are in space and how they relate to where I am… Like when I’m doing archery.” And there was this shocked silence because there is a for real deafblind person telling them about how they shoot arrows. It was so hilarious. And apparently if you want to get people off of a subject just tell them you can’t see or hear but you shoot

@Pawpower

In reply to @AppleVis.

@AppleVis I'm not sure how you can claim something is accessible when you need to use an offline tool to compose your content. Also, the assertion that Gutenberg is primarily a layout editor is incorrect. It deliberately erases the line between presentation and layout and attempts to be Microsoft Word for WordPress, which it will never succeed at.

It’s amazing that Reddit, having watched the fallout after Twitter killed off their third party developers, would go on to say, “You know what, that’s an excellent idea and we should do it too!”

It seems their new API pricing scheme might very well be a deathblow to @christianselig‘s excellent Apollo client (along with tons of others, I’m sure).

https://old.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/had_a_call_with_reddit_to_discuss_pricing_bad/

@bigzaphod