Posts for 2019-05-08

Right after I posted my review of the iPhone SE to Amazon UK, I got prompted to review a load of previous purchases, some going back two decades, many of which I no longer own.

Not today, Amazon. And for the stuff that isn’t even available now, WTF are you smoking??

How Slack impacts workplace productivity

I tried out Slack briefly a few years ago, because a few online courses I was doing at the time used it for student support. But I didn’t stay with it, in part because I could see then that it was a time-sink.

Facebook sponsored posts selling access to hacked PayPal accounts

If you’ve not enabled two-factor authentication on your PayPal account, you should do that, right now.

Also, Facebook is a steaming pile of WTF. No change there, then…

I’d bookmarked The “Developer Experience” Bait-and-Switch for reading and sharing yesterday, but in light of @brentsimmons recent blog post about ideally only enabling JavaScript when it’s necessary, this sheds some light on just how hard it’ll be to get there…

Passed Your Accessibility Check? Don’t Be So Sure

Turns out that Adobe Acrobat doesn’t check that much when it comes to accessibility…

That Time I Tried Browsing the Web Without CSS

Not as daft as it sounds. It can show up a lot of accessibility issues, and just plain bad HTML markup choices.