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Mayank explains how to use the inert attribute in React 19, in earlier versions and with or without TypeScript:

The answer is a bit tricky.

(From: Using the inert attribute in React)

Scott O'Hara shares his thoughts around the ideal way to code spoilers on the web:

I’m just going to tell you what I’d expect from a spoiler component if someone were to build one, or if one were to ever be standardized.

(From: Spoiler Alert: it needs to be accessible | scottohara.me)

Thom Holwerda on the 30% fee Patreon is going to be forced to pay to Apple when users want to donate to creators on iOS:

Remember that ad Apple made where it crushed a bunch of priceless instruments and art supplies into an iPad – the ad it had to pull and apologise for because creators, artists, writers, and so on thought it was tasteless and dystopian?

Who knew that ad was literal.

(From: Apple forces Patreon to charge Patreons 30% tax, or have its iOS application banned from the App Store – OSnews)

What happened to the company that won respect with Think Different?

Ladybird is a new browser, written from scratch, including the engine. It plans not to be funded by ads or ad companies:

The world needs a browser that puts people first, contributes to open standards using a brand new engine, and is free from advertising’s influence.

(From: Why we need Ladybird)

W3C is looking for community input:

We want to get to know our community better, investigate needs, and understand our community’s vision of how we fulfill our mission for the world-wide web.

(From: W3C opens community-wide survey | 2024 | News | W3C)

Hadley Beeman of the Technical Architecture Group:

After reading Google’s announcement that they no longer plan to deprecate third-party cookies, we wanted to make our position clear.

(From: Third-party cookies have got to go | 2024 | Blog | W3C)

The founders and namesakes of the famous Silicon Valley venture capital firm A16Z decided to back Trump, and discussed why on a podcast.

Elizabeth Lopatto of The Verge took one for the team and listened to the whole thing. It sounds like their sole reason for backing this extreme party, ultimately, is money:

this VC cabal is trading against the basic principles of America — not merely against personal freedom, but democracy itself — in the hopes of profit.

(From: The moral bankruptcy of Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz - The Verge)

Selfishness and motivation by money isn't new (or inherently wrong). But A16Z-backed companies used to allude to more inspiring ideals, like changing the world for the better by connecting everyone. The marketing/morality ratio increasingly seems off.

Accessibility is easier when you do it earlier, I can't emphasise that enough. In his latest post, Eric posts research that shows how much easier:

Accessibility audits almost always happen after launch, as an afterthought. That means that errors that could have been found in the requirement analysis are 30 times harder to fix2 . This makes accessibility audits seem very inefficient.

(From: The infuriating inefficiency of accessibility audits · Eric Eggert)

Audits aren't useless. They have their place and are essential for monitoring accessibility within large organisations and for governments. Still, for your website or team, finding and fixing issues early is ideal. And it makes those audits easier and quicker too, as they'll need to report less low hanging fruit.

The corporate branding, the new “AI-powered developer platform” slogan, makes it clear that what I think of as “GitHub”—the traditional website, what are to me the core features—simply isn’t Microsoft’s priority at this point in time.

(From: "GitHub" Is Starting to Feel Like Legacy Software - The Future Is Now)

TUAW (“The Unofficial Apple Weblog”) was shut down by AOL in 2015, but this past year, a new owner scooped up the domain and began posting articles under the bylines of former writers who haven’t worked there for over a decade.

(From: Early Apple tech bloggers are shocked to find their name and work have been AI-zombified - The Verge)

The content on the relaunched site was LLM-generated, including author names and pictures. But then they used real author names from people who used to work at the site. Very uncanny.

After one of the former TUAW writers posted about what happened and threatened with legal action, the names have now been changed.