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J.F. Hector

@jfhector

Principal frontend engineer at @kooth_plc. Inclusive design and development lead. Married to @emilylabram. he/him

 London
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Joined May 2008
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"How to make accessibility happen?". In this talk, Magdalena Wielopolski and I share what's helping us at @kooth_plc. We hope you find it useful. We'd love to hear any feedback/suggestions to make it better. youtu.be/5p-d7Zssagw
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We just shipped the first alpha of React Aria Components, a brand new unstyled component library built on top of the React Aria hooks! 🚀 It abstracts away glue code and provides a much simpler way to quickly build accessible components for your design. react-spectrum.adobe.com/rea…
A code example of a ComboBox component built with React Aria Components, including CSS, JSX, and a screenshot of the running example.

ALT A code example of a ComboBox component built with React Aria Components, including CSS, JSX, and a screenshot of the running example.

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I think that if I am to pick one thing, one pice of advice, it is this: ***Work in Small Steps*** 3/18
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One of the many differences between junior doctors and Labour is that junior doctors are actually prepared to stand up and fight for something
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Labour's Shadow Health Secretary stating he doesn't support junior doctors' strike action
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For @wsj to say flat out that SVB could have failed because they added non-white men to their board shows how far behind the times (and certifiably stupid) this publication really is. It makes me so angry and very sad. WSJ readers and staff deserve better.
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This was super interesting. (FP = functional programming)
Graham Hutton (@haskellhutt) profile pictureGraham Hutton@haskellhutt2 Mar 2023
Today was my favourite part of my advanced FP class, where we finally get to see the payoff of using the state monad. Even after 25 years of using monads, it still feels like magic :-) youtu.be/WYysg5Nf7AU
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Today was my favourite part of my advanced FP class, where we finally get to see the payoff of using the state monad. Even after 25 years of using monads, it still feels like magic :-) youtu.be/WYysg5Nf7AU
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Buried in WhatsApp conversations between then-prime minister Boris Johnson, his scientific advisers and Dominic Cummings, is an exchange which is arguably even more worrying than this headline-grabbing stories. Johnson's fundamental maths mistake... 🧵1/22
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Replying to @elonmusk
“Woke” is Conservative-speak for anyone who gives a damn about other human beings/the planet. It is a dog-whistle slur against expressions of humanity that spread resources, opportunity, power, and a voice to more people; a boogeyman for selfish people. johnpavlovitz.com/2021/05/05…
To Republicans, Decency is "Woke"

To Republicans, Decency is "Woke"

The politics of fear is nothing new. We’ve seen it throughout history. It’s a well-worn playbook. When you lack actual ideas, you need an enemy. When you have nothing redemptive to offer, you have to...

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Joey 🥐@JoeyKnock4 Dec 2022
Today's Sunday Telegraph shows the reality of transphobia in the British media: five articles attacking trans people on one page.
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I am hugely impressed with @whimsical, a much better alternative to Miro. It allows me to visualise my thoughts so quickly and effortlessly that I stay in flow. When I use it, I feel as focused, creative and productive as I feel using a big piece of paper and my favourite pen.
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I discovered the tool in its early days when I was a UX designer. I loved it so much. It removed many decisions so I can focus on my thinking. It replaced my pen and paper workflow.
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I've just rediscovered it now as a developer. It's so much better now. I love working on my physical white board or pen and paper but that's no good for thinking as a team with my colleagues. I get the same focused feeling when I'm working with Whimsical, and everyone can see it.
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in 13 years on twitter i’ve never had a post removed, and in 3 weeks on mastodon i’ve already had something taken down for racism and sexism, ok
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PMs focus on prioritizing user/business needs, and there is basically no incentive to add something as nebulous as “tech debt” to the roadmap. The closest you might get is something like 15% time reserved for bugs and performance. So what is a eng team to do?
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Burkina Faso in the process of nationalizing its mining resources, Perkoa mine french officials destroy their vehicles before leaving. Remember when Guinea voted for freedom, they destroyed their hospitals, tore down their phone lines, basically trashed the place in a tantrum.
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Over the last week I've been asked a lot for guidance on becoming a web developer/ engineer. You can learn for very little cost but it will take some time and dedication. Here are some tips and resources that I highly recommend: 🧵
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Can anyone think of a company that has a good design system where UI components are shared across Web, iOS and Android using React Native or React Native Web?
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I know it's technically feasible, but I don't expect there are many small/medium-sized companies achieving good results that way. (I expect that Twitter uses that setup but accessibility is poor and the DOM is a messy soup).
It’s not surprising. We want to forget that we kill 76 billion farm animals a year to please our palates. We call ourselves animal lovers, yet if we did to dogs and cats what we do to farm animals, we would find ourselves in prison. The cognitive dissonance is deafening.
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Yesterday, myself, a documentary filmmaker and @tomsdinner, a press photographer, got arrested by @HertsPolice whilst filming the @JustStopOil protest from a public footbridge over the #M25. 🧵....
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