From Eli Mellen to ~lioploum/forevercomputer
> On Dec 29, 2022, at 6:37 PM, Csepp <raingloom@riseup.net> wrote: > > > sourcehut@ploum.eu writes: > >> On 22/12/26 03:45, Eli Mellen - hi at eli.li wrote: >>> I lurk on this list, as well as the lists for collapse OS and a few >>> other communities that I’d lump into “smol tech.” sort of an >>> adjacent and shared space with the smol web — gemini, etc. >>> >>> I wrote the following a while ago, but haven’t been certain where it >>> made most sense to share. I published it to my blog and had some
From Eli Mellen to ~lioploum/forevercomputer
I think there are also some major advantages phones have that are left out of your summary, to list a few: - they’re super portable and, while some are expensive, the lower end is very very very affordable compared to a laptop - phones are really great if you need to be able to get really close to a screen - because they’re extremely portable they’re more of an option for unhoused folks, or folks who have to move a lot So, yeah, while the software is locked down and directed towards consumption over creativity — that is less a constraint of the hardware and more of the software and ecosystem. I think a phone-snapped device has a lot to offer the creative/generative coding space if the tooling existed. A reason I love forth is that it has such minimal semantics it is pretty easy to write even longer programs in forth on a phone’s small keyboard. > On Dec 27, 2022, at 12:01 PM, Giovanni Lostumbo <giovanni.lostumbo@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thank you Eli. > > You are correct about disability having multiple forms, and sometimes temporary. >
From Eli Mellen to ~lioploum/forevercomputer
> As an user, has anybody tried to code an accessible client/server? No idea. What about making sure your client "plays nice" with assistive technologies? Perhaps that could be a first step.
Gemini seems one of the “easiest” to solve technically, since it is so adjacent to the existing web stack — modern active tech can understand well structured HTML, so, using gemini through anything that converts gem text to HTML first makes gemini available to assistive tech. Granted, this sort of bring accessibility to the smol web by totally side stepping the smol web itself.
From Eli Mellen to ~lioploum/forevercomputer
I lurk on this list, as well as the lists for collapse OS and a few other communities that I’d lump into “smol tech.” sort of an adjacent and shared space with the smol web — gemini, etc. I wrote the following a while ago, but haven’t been certain where it made most sense to share. I published it to my blog and had some conversations about it on fedi., but I think it also may make sense for this community, too? OG blog post, but full text also included here: https://eli.li/2022/12/14/thoughts-on-accessibility-in-smol-computing I want to open a conversation about accessibility in this space. I think it is an important consideration mostly left out of our community’s conversations. I think it’s an important conversation for a variety of reasons — Facet, ignoring it tacitly implies there isn’t space for folks who rely on assistive tech in our community, that they can’t contribute and aren’t imagined to matter in the future.
From Eli Mellen to ~sircmpwn/free-writers-club
Gonna preface this with the note that I *deeply* disagree with the core thesis here. I've done my best to to engage with the content in isolation, though, and apologies if I've slipped anywhere. To start, I'd ask why if the goal hear is to remove "politics" from software, use the levers and mechanisms of politics itself (eg a license) to enact the removal of politics? This may be more effective as a code of conduct than as a license. In my experience a code of conduct typically has to be mutually agreed to by all entering folks, where as a license is imposed from on-high. > On Jul 4, 2020, at 8:26 AM, Philipp Stanner <stanner@posteo.de> wrote: > > Hi! > > This is a request for comments on a manifest I wrote, which intends > primarily to keep ideology* and politics out of software projects.
From Eli Mellen to ~sircmpwn/free-writers-club
Howdy, I'm Eli -- located in Portland, ME. I do web dev., and a lot of testing. I've had a blog, and have used it as my primary social outlet for the last few years. I don't do heaps of technical writing there right now, but am hoping to do more in the coming months. <https://eli.li> Very excited to add some of you all's blogs to my RSS reader! Nice to meet everyone! On Tue, Jul 23, 2019, at 9:46 AM, Chris Bero wrote: > On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 7:02 AM Ananth Bhaskararaman <ananth@usc.ltd> wrote: