 So... I bought a domain. I'm doing a thing. Do people still #buildInPublic these days? Let's do it. It's in a very very sparse starting stage right now: (Yes, I bought https://whimsically.net too. Not whimsicaIIy.net though!) #accessibility for hobbyists. It'll be slow, and move forward in bursts. I'm excited though! 20 comments
Just a note to say that a lot of this first baby page's content is placeholder material. It's now bedtime for me! I'm not at all sure yet of the form the whole thing will take, whether I'll use those four WCAG principles as main sections or not, or if I'll take an entirely different route in. We'll see. I'm willing to let it hang out in public while I try to make up my mind π  For more context, only in the last hour or two did I actually get my laptop open, and half of that had me distracted by fonts, hahah. Amazing what you can do just via a smartphone though:  @sarajw and just this is huge, for people to see - it CAN be done this easily! Huge. I did something similar with mine recently, just minus the 'hub haha - porkbun, forward, pasted site code at Neocities (for https://deadscorpionranch.com) π @jake4480 oh nice! Yeah amazing. I dreamed of this kind of thing 20ish years ago, as I was getting hold of some of the early smartphones (windows mobile) and using them to access email, IRC, maybe even MSN messenger? And now I'm deploying whole websites hahaha @sarajw it's so wild! Amazing how things have changed, and for the better, in that aspect  @sarajw love the idea and the domain name! Would love to follow #whimsica11y tag. @shom there's is no dev and prod, it's all just main, and yes immediately online on commit and push. Edit: don't know if there's any official way to build in public though? This is just my way. I'm a hobbyist building for hobbyists at this point, even if my job is in web dev :) I'm sorry the placeholder nav links were confusing though! @sarajw don't be sorry at all, I was curious what your process was. I love what you're doing (the topic and building in public). I have a couple (public) branches on my blog's repo as I flesh stuff out. But I don't get back to it because it's in a branch and I'm not motivated to fix/finish things. That's the curiosity behind my question. Also, one of my branches is implementing littlefoot for pop-up footnotes but I also want it to show at the bottom for a11y, your post was in that sweet spot. @shom with my personal stuff it all goes YOLO straight to main π That often means I break stuff but π€· @sarajw yes I need to embrace more whimsy in my hobbying βΊ Looking forward to learning more! @shom of course if this gets very popular and relied upon, I may have to change the way I do things, that's ok too :)   @sarajw so does it mean "whimsicaccessibility"? or are there a different 11 letters? <grin> @RangerRick mind you it wouldn't be wrong... Just archaic: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/whimsic |
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@sarajw exciting! π