ALT me, a feminine person with pink hair, wearing a shirt that says “full stack developer”, while sitting at an outside table of a diner, eating pancakes and drinking a milkshake
ALT drawing of feminine perosn eating a stack of pancakes while sitting on a diner seat. the seat across from her features oolong the rabbit, with a stack of pancakes on his head. the text at the top, in a diner font, says “full stack developer”
LinkedIn’s SWE apprenticeship program, REACH is accepting applications 3/1 (tomorrow) - 3/6. They’re looking for individuals with non traditional backgrounds like:
• bootcamp grads
• career changers
• self taught
• people re-entering the workforce
careers.linkedin.com/reach
I'm working to help a critical contributor of @BlackPythonDevs who has not been approved for a grant to @pycon
Would someone or a few someone's match my $300 contribution?
This is a landmark year with its founder @kjaymiller giving a keynote and the boom in membership.
Gentle reminder that org values are expressed via promotion.
You cannot say you value something and not speak aloud that positive impact in promo.
Likewise, you can’t say “we don’t do x here” and let it slide in promo.
Promo is an extension of values.
Happy first day of February! I have a few roles open...
🫶 Are you interested in working and helping build an Open Source Community alongside a stellar product? Let's chat!
🥳 We have a small, but mighty, team right now and looking to bring a few more on.
(Job 🧵 below!)
The `satisfies` operator in TypeScript 4.9 is a game changer
Here is a quick overview of how it compares to a couple alternative ways of annotating types
Learn more about the `satisfies` operator here: typescriptlang.org/docs/hand…
ALT strategy: read the library's code
I used to think that the only way to learn about libraries was by reading their documentation. But lots of code isn't
documented! Sometimes you have to read the code!
Ways to get started reading an unfamiliar library's code:
* search for your error message and trace back!
* if it's a Python/JS/Ruby library, sometimes I'll edit the library's code on my computer to add print statements (just remember to take them out after!)
* if you're using a debugger, you can use it on the library's code too!
We’ve been talking about it.
You’ve been asking for it.
We’ve been working on it.
Today, we launched it: the image description reminder!
It’s live to 10% of global Twitter across Android, iOS, and Web. 🧵 (1 of 6)
ALT Screenshot of the image description reminder modal. The text says: Don’t forget to make your image accessible. Good image descriptions are concise yet detailed. Be sure to summarize or write out any text in the image itself. Your description makes Twitter accessible to people with disabilities, and everyone who wants more context. You can turn off this reminder in Accessibility Settings. The first button says Add descriptions. The second button says Not this time.
👀 Sneak a peek at the deepest & sharpest infrared image of the early universe ever taken — all in a day’s work for the Webb telescope. (Literally, capturing it took less than a day!) This is Webb’s first image released as we begin to #UnfoldTheUniverse: nasa.gov/webbfirstimages/
ALT The background of space is black. Thousands of galaxies appear all across the view. Their shapes and colors vary. Some are various shades of orange, others are white. Most stars appear blue, and are sometimes as large as more distant galaxies that appear next to them. A very bright star is just above and left of center. It has eight bright blue, long diffraction spikes. Between 4 o’clock and 6 o’clock in its spikes are several very bright galaxies. A group of three are in the middle, and two are closer to 4 o’clock. These galaxies are part of the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723, and they are warping the appearances of galaxies seen around them. Long orange arcs appear at left and right toward the center.
Testing your product for #accessibility yourself will *never* compare with testing with real users.
This week we conducted 5 usability interviews with frequent screen reader users. Here are some things I observed:
(a thread) 🧵👇