Grumpy Website

nikitonsky: Accessibility as a toggle? Just make it accessible! Always!

Thanks Tony Mottaz for the picture

#accessibility #a11y

nikitonsky: I bought a teapot. It’s not a function of a teapot to show time. This one does, though—it has a computer.

It also completely misunderstands how analog clocks work. In a normal clock, the hour hand moves continuously: it starts at the current hour mark, sits halfway between marks at :30, and nearly reaches the next one by the end. Normally, a clock like this would read 11:53.

But not here! The hour hand stays fixed and only jumps when the time rolls from :59 to :00. So the time displayed here is actually 12:53! Which confuses the hell out of me.

The teapot looks great, though.

#Clock #Watch #Fellow

nikitonsky: Microsoft Teams be like:

- A square with the arrow pointing to the top right

- A square with the arrow pointing to the top right

- A square with the arrow pointing to the top right

- Copilot

Thanks @yermishkina for the picture

#Microsoft #Teams #Icons

nikitonsky: What Siri does when you ask her to set alarm to 8am every day

Thanks @nzrff for the picture

#iOS #iPhone #Alarm #Siri #Apple

nikitonsky: The smaller the window, the more you can see!

Thanks @valery_kirichenko for the video

#Scaling

nikitonsky: No time to explain, just trust me on this one

#Spinner #Foundations #Loading #Progress

nikitonsky: Affordances are forgotten. Any control can look like any other control.

1 — button

2 — button

3 — text input 🤯

How are you supposed to tell?

Thanks @ilyabirman for the picture.

#Codex #VSCode #AI #LLM #Affordance

nikitonsky: Longest checkbox you’ll see

Thanks @NikitaKaramov for the pictures

#Github #Checkbox #CSSisHard

nikitonsky: The whole block could’ve been a single dropdown

#Apple #Dropdown #AppleStore

nikitonsky: Success is hard

Thanks Márton for the picture

#OneNote #Error

nikitonsky: Looks good?

#YouTube #Icons

nikitonsky: Where to hide date sorting? Well, in a paginator component, of course.

Thanks @Margolin for reporting this

#Google #Gmail #Dropdown #Sorting #Pagination