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authormjfernez <mjf@mjfer.net>2021-11-26 15:31:25 -0500
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Would squashing be lying at this point?
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@@ -84,3 +84,17 @@ stuff is useful at all. That would be a nice surprise.
*Not* everything that is *linked* to on this site falls under the same
guidelines, so be sure to respect that author's copyright; I tend to
link stuff that is generally pretty free to use, though.
+
+### Why don't you highlight URLs you dinosaur?
+
+Because I think it's kinda deceiving. It's one thing to highlight a
+word that leads to a place, since the user doesn't have expectation of
+where it's going to lead, they'll tend to hover to see where it's going.
+A full URL looks like it's going exactly where it's going. A user won't
+think twice about clicking on
+[https://facebook.com/](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ).
+They will if they see
+[totally not a virus](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ). If
+you're giving out the full URL anyway why bother linking it? Every
+browser in the world has double-click (or long-press) to highlight the
+URL automatically, then right-click, and open in new tab.
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@@ -21,24 +21,29 @@ Now, I'm not so sure I've earned the right yet.
I'd rather just let my work (and my play) stand for itself, for whatever
it's worth. You'll get it as you go I'm sure. That said, there are some
things that probably help for context's sake:
+
- I'm born, raised, and hosted on the US East Coast. By most countries'
standards, that means I have no sense of the world outside of my own
country, which despite my best efforts, is probably true
+
- I'm raised and hosted (not born) on free software (unless you count
whatever my VPS is running). This server is running OpenBSD with
nginx and httpd working together to host a small git repo and this
flask app I threw together
+
- I'm born and raised (not hosted) by Luddites, for the most part. And I
don't mean that in entirely bad way. What I mean is I grew up around
mostly people who didn't know and didn't care to know about advances
in technology or the merging of that technology with culture. In
fact, that might be the appropriate view to have in light of
recent circumstances.
+
- By trade, I'm best at data recovery and writing good documentation.
I'm self-taught at programming software design so by most metrics,
I'm probably not great at that, but I'm getting there. I love a good
math problem, and though I only got a B in my college circuits class,
I still find time to make some lights blink.
+
- I spend a lot of time on the Internet lost. And in the process,
sometimes find useful things; though I largely find nonsense, which
has it's own value, but it's separate.