Started an alt for @FiXato here on toot.cat to see if #Glitchsoc is a closer match to what I want out of a #SocialMediaPlatform, feature-wise.
So, it's time for a re-introduction:

Who am I?

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I'm FiXato, a stay-at-home father of a two-year-old I often refer to as #BeardGrabber.
While I was born in the Netherlands, I've been living in northern Norway for quite some time now.

What do I do?

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In day-to-day life I take care of our son while the missus is at work, and when I have some spare time and headspace, I like to tinker on my various coding projects.

Aside from that, I like to play some mobile Android games such as #PokémonGO, #Ingress and #MarioKartTour.

Overview in hashtags:

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• ― #Dutch he/him from the #Netherlands
  Emigrated to #Norway (#northernNorway to be more precise)

• ― I like to do #parenting / #parentsOfMastodon posts about our #2yo.

• ― Grew up with #MSX (a Philips #NMS8250 #MSX2 #homecomputer to be precise).
  Related interest in #retroGaming, #retroComputer , and the #demoscene. Looking forward to attending #demoparties again.

• ― #Development experience primarily with #Ruby, #Python and #Bash, with a general #dev interest in #WebDevelopment, #scripting, #coding

• ― #photography mostly focused on #landscapePhotography using a #MiA1 and #Canon1000D

• ― also like to post about #language / #linguistics, especially about #etymology

• ― #FiXatoDrinks is where I tend to post about the #beers and other beverages I drink.

#music:
↳ #metal
↳ #chiptune
↳ #FiXatoListens

Fan of:
↳ #TerryPratchett's #DiscWorld
↳ #StephenKing's #DarkTower
↳ #StarTrek
↳ #DoctorWho

#introductions #WhoAmI #introduction
#FiXato

I actually couldn't resist, and made a new version, with an added reference to the programming language #FORTH instead. ;)

"May FORTH be with Boo" on Imgur.com

#MayFourth #Boo #BaldursGate #MiniatureGiantSpaceHamster #Minsc #ForthLang

Credits:

• Sketch of computer modified from "Old computer sketch" by Nadyaus

• FORTH logo

• Boo character profile background from Beamdog's post about Baldur's Gate-inspired Easter Eggs

• Composited with @krita (Krita.org)

It's #MayFourth, often referred to as #StarWarsDay, but as I posted several years ago on my #Imgur / #Reddit #CakeDay, let's give that #MiniatureGiantSpaceHamster some love:

May the 4th be with #Boo:
https://imgur.com/gallery/fSBoUrA

#BaldursGate #Minsc

What do you do when the website frontend of list of outlet products in your local electronics store is impossible to use?

Right, you write your own #Python script that scrapes the data via requests to the #API the #ajax / #xhr calls use.

(Webshop in question was loading products page by page, and only then filters the results by your selected local store... meaning you often get only 1 or 2 results added, before you have to trigger the infinite scroll again...)

#coding #scraping

#BeardGrabber uses his toy saw to separate the two halves of a chocolate cream biscuit. ><

#Parenting

Dear #WebDevelopers, if you need a #cookiePolicy settings page, can you please make sure your fucking #cookieBanner isn't visible on the actual cookie policy settings page?

Or at the very least make sure it doesn't fucking obscure the options?

In other words, don't be like the fucking idiots who designed #gfycat.

#UXFail #UIFail #development #webdevelopment #developers

go away...

I was looking up a #beer, and its entry on #RateBeer came up.

Somehow though, I don't think that having your blurb about being dedicated to #accessibility as your site's snippet is very useful information to show up in search results:

«RateBeer is committed to improving the accessibility of our website for all users, including those with disabilities. If you experience issues or difficulties accessing any information on our site as a result of a disability, we want to hear from you. Please contact us at disabilityaccommodation@anheuser-busch.com with your contact information, the web address where you experienced the issue, and a brief description of the problem.»
Screenshot of DuckDuckGo search results showing the aforementioned blurb as RateBeer.com's page/site description

worse though is that I had to turn of #Javascript to even be able to see the contents of the site:
Screenshot of a blank page

Of course visiting it with JS on doesn't make it much better, with various banners and overlays taking the focus away from the actual contents.

#a11y
Screenshot of RateBeer.com's page for the Hansa Mango IPA beer
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Sir Cams-a-lot and the Bytes of the Bound IPTables.

#ArthurianLegend #pun #KingArthur #Camelot #PunDay