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WCAG 3 will use a new color contrast method called APCA (Advanced Perceptual Contrast Algorithm).It's a big improvement over the current system but there are a lot of changes to get your head around.

I don't want to be cruel but - as someone who has spent a lot of time on, thought a lot about, and written critically on the subject of the Social Web - I don't understand how folks STILL find every single nugget of this happening...

figure I might as well do a nice, undying, bigass, crossposted thread one more time for the sake ofEssential Mastodon/Federated Social Resources for NormlordsI started a repository, even! https://github.com/extratone/mastodon-init

I've always wanted to know why some colours "vibrate" next to each other.I did some digging and it's actually the same reason good camera lenses are so expensive.

11 ways ChatGPT saves me hours of work every day, and why you'll never outcompete those who use AI effectively.A list for those who write code:

1/Is it possible to be successful without compromising on your values? If not, what do we even mean by success?I've struggled with this question a lot. Recently I've come up with a framework that has helped me.I call it

How does a Large Language Model like ChatGPT actually work?Well, they are both amazingly simple and exceedingly complex at the same time.Hold on to your butts, this is a deep dive

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Helpful thing to understand for startups: problem vs product riskproblem risk = is it really a problem? ex: do we really need tinder for dogs?product risk = people obviously want this, but does it actually work? ex: biz pays you to bring in more customers

Before we all mute the word 'dithering' I thought I'd explain a little bit about why we needed to dither digital images in the first place. Although it's an aesthetic now, we used to need dithering to trick our eyes into seeing more colors than were actua