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Links of the week 1/12/24

Links I found interesting since the last list.

AI and hoverboards

When I read Jeremy Keith’s post called The meaning of “AI” I found myself nodding along in agreement. I especially like that “AI” is in quotes, as I’ve been known to refer to it as “so-called AI”.

Links of the week 15/11/24

Interesting links I found this week.

Links of the week 8/11/24

Interesting links I found this week.

Links of the week 1/11/24

Interesting links I found this week.

Lighthouse accessibility score is unreliable

Every so often somebody at work wants to use a single-use service for a specific need their team or department has, and asks my team to measure how well it stacks up against our internal standards for inclusion.

Links of the week 25/10/24

Interesting links I found this week.

Links of the week 18/10/24

Interesting links I found this week.

Moving to Vercel

This site is built with Hugo, and I decided to move it from Netlify to Vercel, for nosiness professional curiosity more than anything. It all went smoothly apart from one thing: syntax highlighting broke. The theme on live was different to production, and one code block was just put on the page as normal text, including the code fences. I couldn’t find the answer quickly so putting it here for future reference.

Removing the :target psuedo-class

I was working on a page with a link to a document fragment and put an animation on it using the :target pseudo-class. Scrolling back to the anchor and pressing it again skips to the fragment, but the animation does not run again. That’s because it still has the pseudo-class, it doesn’t disappear when scrolling.