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Astro RSS MDX

I love Astro. But for the life of me, I couldn’t figure out how to render the entire post content in my RSS feeds correctly. This article by Donnie D’Amato has been a lifesaver in this regard.

An alt Decision Tree | Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) | W3C

A great resource to understand how to use the alt attribute in various situations.

While you’re fixing the fun stuff, fix the important stuff too - Piccalilli

Initially, I thought this was just an article on how to fix the janky hover state of a card component. But it also goes over the HTML markup for a typical card component in the context of semantics and accessibility.

Adactio: Journal—Mind set

Ah! Good old Jeremy Keith, insightful and funny.

If I really want to change someone’s mind, then I need to make the effort to first understand their mind. That’s going to be far more productive than declaring that my own mind is made up. After all, if I show no willingness to consider alternative viewpoints, why should they?

There’s an old saying that before criticising someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. I’m going to try to put that into practice, and not for the two obvious reasons:

1. If we still disagree, now we’re a mile away from each other, and
2. I’ve got their shoes.

Jimmy Kimmel & the FCC: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) - YouTube

John Oliver on drawing the line:

Giving the bully your lunch money doesn’t make him go away. It just makes him come back hungrier each time.

Missed Connections - Jim Nielsen’s Blog

Jim Nielsen on the personal connections formed on the internet.

I fell in love with the web for this reason, this feeling of connection. You could search the world and find someone who saw what you see, felt what you feel, went through what you’re going through.

And how these connections are increasingly being lost when we prompt an impersonal LLM instead.