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What I've been up to
Oct. 30th, 2012 05:39 pmI'm extra sad about this LJ mandatory-infinite-scroll-on-friendslist thing, because I'd actually been thinking about making a DW suggestion for infinite scroll as an opt-in feature. I was reading about how to implement it, and I really love infinite scrool and would enjoy it greatly on DW, but I know a lot of people hate it and it breaks websites for many, so I thought, well it can be an opt-in suggestion! Or something that only certain styles use, like how some of the infinite-scrolling styles work on tumblr. But now with all this LJ brouhaha I suspect even if it were an opt-in suggestion on DW, people would still vote against it. Alas!
Also on the subject of the LJ thing, I've been poking at the CSS styling for the new page to see how easy it'd be to restyle it to change colors, fonts/font sizes, widths, etc. for people for accessibility purposes. Pretty easy, I think. However, since it can be kind of a pain for folks to customize their own stylish stylesheets, how about some kind of greasemonkey script with a pop-up to set display options? Like the MSPA troll lexical translator used, which has the preference-storing apparently adapted from this script. Something that puts a little button the top or bottom somewhere, so a user can click that and it gives them a pop-up where they can set which things/colors/sizes they want to override. At least it'd make it visually more accessible, and probably there'd be a way to override the infinite scrolling as well? You can still manually go back a page at a time by adding ?skip=20 to the url, and likely the infinite scrolling is just working by loading each of those subsequent pages inside the page anyway. So that's a thought!
That stuff aside, I haven't done any other DW patches in a little while. I'm waiting to see if the ones I still have in the queue will go through or not! Especially the video embedding in comments which I am still really hopeful about. But, another part I haven't done as many DW bugs for a while is because...
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...I am doing some really cool online computer science classes! :D :D :D
( Lots of info about that )
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So, my ABSOLUTE #1 FAVORITE THING that I've learned from the MIT course so far is about WHY certain numbers cannot be stored precisely by the computer. ( Yes yes this blew my mind )
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Also on that note and these courses, I'm thinking about picking up some computer science books, but I'm torn on what to get.
( Talking about books )
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My parents have been encouraging me to consider applying to master's programs again, and I have definitely been considering it, though I am still particularly overwhelmed by disability concerns. Just like with job applications, it is hard to motivate myself to apply to schools when I am physically unable to travel or leave my house, and can't conceive of how I'd even attend a physical school or job if I got/got into one. :-/ But I may try doing more research on grad programs anyway.
Also on that subject (health), I finally got through to the pain center (since they never called me after receiving my referral, and didn't return my call the other day either) and have an appointment on November 20th. Sigh. Waiting.
Also on the subject of the LJ thing, I've been poking at the CSS styling for the new page to see how easy it'd be to restyle it to change colors, fonts/font sizes, widths, etc. for people for accessibility purposes. Pretty easy, I think. However, since it can be kind of a pain for folks to customize their own stylish stylesheets, how about some kind of greasemonkey script with a pop-up to set display options? Like the MSPA troll lexical translator used, which has the preference-storing apparently adapted from this script. Something that puts a little button the top or bottom somewhere, so a user can click that and it gives them a pop-up where they can set which things/colors/sizes they want to override. At least it'd make it visually more accessible, and probably there'd be a way to override the infinite scrolling as well? You can still manually go back a page at a time by adding ?skip=20 to the url, and likely the infinite scrolling is just working by loading each of those subsequent pages inside the page anyway. So that's a thought!
That stuff aside, I haven't done any other DW patches in a little while. I'm waiting to see if the ones I still have in the queue will go through or not! Especially the video embedding in comments which I am still really hopeful about. But, another part I haven't done as many DW bugs for a while is because...
---
...I am doing some really cool online computer science classes! :D :D :D
( Lots of info about that )
---
So, my ABSOLUTE #1 FAVORITE THING that I've learned from the MIT course so far is about WHY certain numbers cannot be stored precisely by the computer. ( Yes yes this blew my mind )
---
Also on that note and these courses, I'm thinking about picking up some computer science books, but I'm torn on what to get.
( Talking about books )
---
My parents have been encouraging me to consider applying to master's programs again, and I have definitely been considering it, though I am still particularly overwhelmed by disability concerns. Just like with job applications, it is hard to motivate myself to apply to schools when I am physically unable to travel or leave my house, and can't conceive of how I'd even attend a physical school or job if I got/got into one. :-/ But I may try doing more research on grad programs anyway.
Also on that subject (health), I finally got through to the pain center (since they never called me after receiving my referral, and didn't return my call the other day either) and have an appointment on November 20th. Sigh. Waiting.
