markhnthoraway

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by markhnthoraway 2y ago
In the part where the claim is made that individual characters matter there's a footnote link that ultimately goes to this PDF thesis[1]. That thesis has a claim itself: > Creating a well designed, legible typeface is therefore not
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by markhnthoraway 3y ago
I do think training developers and designers on accessibility is a core part of having them ship professional quality work. Even if product people and designers aren't thinking about it, I think it's reasonable to expect competent
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by markhnthoraway 3y ago
I've onboarded juniors and interns remotely at a couple of jobs and it's been fine. It doesn't work well if your onboarding process is osmosis-based & you want them to just pick stuff up by being around others. But if you
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by markhnthoraway 3y ago
> In my case, I found that WFH only was isolating, impacted focus, and cut me off from the information flow of the organization, something electronic means cannot really substitute. I worried about feeling isolated but found I didn'
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by markhnthoraway 3y ago
> The React site would be functional and performant in 6 weeks, and ship in 10. If it didn't, I would step down and recruit a replacement. I lost at lot of faith in the author's judgment at this point. I know this thing worked
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by markhnthoraway 3y ago
Depends on context. There's nothing wrong with slowing down to communicate discrete steps that may happen very quickly under the hood. - Input was received - Input was processed/stored correctly - Outcome is X Doing everything in
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by markhnthoraway 3y ago
It depends how you read that sentence. Race doesn't matter if "low-income neighborhoods with higher proportions of Black and Latino residents" is simply stating that all low income neighborhoods have higher proportions of Bla
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by markhnthoraway 3y ago
Or if a mono font is too limiting - any font that supports the CSS rule `font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums` can be made to behave like a fixed-width font in this situation.