It’s the end of February and it’s a Friday afternoon. Forget work, let’s get all atwitter and look back fondly at the shortest month of 2015 as represented in 140-character bursts.
Highlights include personal achievements, lots of accessibility (#a11y) posts, and of course a few funnies. There will be no dress of ambiguous color.
If you still get your MTs confused with your RTs, check out the first fake follow post for the Twitter jargon. All the tweets are ones I sent or “retweeted” to the masses.
@MRWWeb Updates
Just fixed two long-standing stupid bugs on my site after a year+ of being broken. #betterlatethannever #youareyourworstclient
— Mark Root-Wiley (@MRWweb) February 3, 2015
Remember the new plugin!?
The default #WordPress editor has 24 buttons. That is too many buttons. Use Simple TinyMCE. http://t.co/8p755rJyxO pic.twitter.com/YesenVWGAT
— Mark Root-Wiley (@MRWweb) February 18, 2015
I’ve been working on a new email signature. Here’s how I ended up with what I have.
Social icons in email signature sans images. pic.twitter.com/VoVlLJbYMB
— Mark Root-Wiley (@MRWweb) February 5, 2015
Pure-HTML Gmail signature with social icons, Take 2. Code: http://t.co/FOvCjTTg3i Img: pic.twitter.com/raLmnwhD86
— Mark Root-Wiley (@MRWweb) February 6, 2015
Final take on imageless HTML email signature. Balances branding and performance. Code: http://t.co/YcSPfvjHc3 Img: pic.twitter.com/6HQDbigRKZ
— Mark Root-Wiley (@MRWweb) February 12, 2015
Laughs and Snark
Some pretty darn funny CSS puns. http://t.co/HKEyjSNkBp (With a few I could do without…)
— Mark Root-Wiley (@MRWweb) February 17, 2015
— Ben Gillbanks (@BinaryMoon) February 17, 2015
How people think design happens:
start > ???magical inspiration??? > finish
How design actually happens:
start > work > finish
— Mitch Goldstein (@mgoldst) February 24, 2015
Nonprofit Websites
"How essential is this solution to your mission?” A great #nonprofit question for considering custom technology. | http://t.co/hBseHyUyEn
— MOD-Lab (@mindsondesign) February 5, 2015
"The How and Why of Nonprofits Contributing to Open Source" on @NTENorg http://t.co/OkgYYctffL #nptech
— Mark Root-Wiley (@MRWweb) February 24, 2015
Usability & Accessibility
Not that Twitter is that accessible in the first place, but this new trend of posting pictures of text feels like a step backwards. #a11y
— Mark Root-Wiley (@MRWweb) February 3, 2015
.@Delta By naming your app "Fly Delta" it gets ordered as "F" rather than "D" and I can pretty much never find it. #usability
— Mark Root-Wiley (@MRWweb) February 25, 2015
Miscellaneous
But cool and interesting!
African emoji! Story on NPR: http://t.co/uamBBiqHHa // Story on @Kabissa: http://t.co/miEe0ez0g5 // Image: pic.twitter.com/KKgyRYeJEB
— Mark Root-Wiley (@MRWweb) February 25, 2015
Emoji are coming to WordPress, so hopefully they’ll keep diversity in mind.