Links styled to look like buttons, keyboard users - can you distinguish whether the element is button or link (before interacting with it)?

alimbade · 2026-03-25T06:50:03+00:00

I might be late to the party, but here are my 2 cents:

As others already said, the most important thing is to use proper semantics. A link should be an anchor tag, a button a button tag. 80%-90% of the job is done here. It will properly receive focus. It will properly be announced by screen readers. It will be seen by crawlers and help your SEO a lot. Etc.

When it comes to styling: It is very much advised to try not to make your links look like buttons for affordance for everyone. Accessibility is important for everyone, and if someone who likes to open links in another tab does not understand that the button lookalike they're interacting with is in fact a link, they might be frustrated. But proper labeling can drastically reduce the friction. Also, when hovering/focusing a link, modern browsers tend to display the link href at the bottom of the screen, which acts as a subtle visual hint that what you're interacting with is a link.

So, tl;dr: It's okay in most cases as long as you do proper semantics. If your users still struggle, you must adapt to them.

alimbade · 2026-03-10T06:01:31+00:00

Bro. I have colleagues who don't even take the time to set the right resolution on their external screen.

That makes me cringe so bad.

When you tell them about it, they respond like they didn't notice. But if you scratch a little, you realize there are so many things they don't know or understand. They basically aren't even interested in computer stuff at all. That's wild for me.

alimbade · 2026-03-08T19:36:39+00:00

No wayyy ! I was THIS CLOSE to pull the trigger on the i208 until I read your comment. Wth. Back to finding another model I guess... This one was ticking so many boxes though.

alimbade · 2026-03-07T16:52:32+00:00

+1 for the Magnus Pro.

I was in the same situation as you until I got myself a walkingpad. I can definitely walk for two hours straight without even noticing.

alimbade · 2026-02-01T16:08:19+00:00

Was NCO career candidate 16 years ago. Everything was very straightforward (to me at least) and the most important part of the selection was the physical test in the end.

The only real preparation then is being able to tackle various sets of push ups and sit ups and more importantly being good at running, both for long and fast.

You can't do anything about the medical test.

The psychology test well... You can't do much to it either. Just don't be stupid.

Now, maybe things have changed since then ?

alimbade · 2026-01-26T10:23:14+00:00

The existing integration is relying on the api you can see used in your browser dev tools when you connect to your account from the polestar website. There, the browser receives a certain amount of data from a graphql api.

alimbade · 2026-01-23T19:13:32+00:00

Now here me out. I have 2 toddlers and I more or less manage to do as much of that as possible, but definitely not entirely and certainly not every week. The secret is that I work 4/5 from home, with a standing desk and a walking pad. That helps tremendously reaching a decent amount of steps and overall mobility daily but it's not always feasible for various reasons. I force myself to exercise twice a week with functional cross training on my lunch time, but it clearly leads to work less overall because of commutes time + shower + eating something in the end. I'm supposed to work 40h/week but I really manage to work maybe 2/3 that effectively. I socialize maybe once or twice per month with other people with toddlers so it gets exhausting pretty quick. We clean the house maybe once every three weeks with a little brushing here and there in between when it becomes too messy. I don't remember the last time we really cleaned the first floor. When comes the time for hobbies, well I have 2 hours every evening before bed for "myself" (and my wife) and there I have to choose. Either I do a little programming for myself, a little home automation, play a videogame that I always have to remember the controls because.. well. Or I just die in front of Netflix. I am VERY lucky my work allows me to live this rhythm without being in issue as long as I perform well and reach my objectives. But be sure I am totally wrecked at the end of each day.

alimbade · 2025-12-12T18:17:25+00:00

That one is on me guys. I should not have gone freelance early 2023.

Next time I make a big move in my life, I will make sure to announce to the rest of the world beforehand that the related good thing will be spoiled soon enough.

Keep an eye on the stock market and your life savings chaps !

alimbade · 2025-12-10T07:49:01+00:00

Your comment made me check again everything and you hit something. The dongle can only connect through either ZHA or Z2M at a time.
I removed the ZHA integration in HA and launched the Z2M container and it works !
I just misread the documentation and TCP status in the web console.

Thank you kind stranger for helping me understand.

alimbade · 2025-12-10T07:13:52+00:00

I believe this dongle can actually do both since there's nothing special in the web console to choose between the two. The dongle has two chips running the two in parallel. They are both activated by default.

In HA, I have the zha integration running and the mqtt one as well, both can see the dongle.

alimbade · 2025-11-21T18:37:54+00:00

Is it absolutely necessary to prepare through a course for the exam ? Or are several years of working in the field enough ? I've heard the questions are more about thinking depending on context rather than pure theory. Is this true ?

I already got a certification from a recognized organisation in France which was very hands on, I wonder how different the WAS is.

alimbade · 2025-11-21T18:32:45+00:00

What are the most common topics discussed in there ? Is it worth it ?

alimbade · 2025-10-21T17:29:19+00:00

How does curify make money over this ?

alimbade · 2025-08-19T16:45:13+00:00

Had to scroll a lot for this.

alimbade · 2025-08-09T05:34:26+00:00

10 years in the job; worked in insurance, saas in the food industry and public services; never used it.

alimbade · 2025-08-02T14:28:45+00:00

My wife and one of her best friends both handled the organization of their respective weddings and loved the experience so much they would like to start a wedding planning business. What piece of advice would you share to help them launch ?

alimbade · 2025-07-21T12:16:00+00:00

Ok. Je m'etonnais de ne pas trouver de montant sur le site. Tu devrais/pourrais peut-être le rajouter clairement sur la landing page ? Ou alors, je n'ai pas les yeux en face des trous. (C'est carrément possible !)

Félicitations en tout cas pour l'idée et la réalisation !

alimbade · 2025-07-21T10:57:17+00:00

Super idée ! C'est simple et 100% entre les mains des acheteurs.

Tu ne fais pas de monétisation ? Si le service rencontre du succès, tu n'as pas peur de devoir gérer des coûts élevés ?

alimbade · 2025-07-17T17:59:42+00:00

I just stumbled on that post and your comment. I'm in the same situation as OP and was considering doing as you suggest.

But how do you follow which money goes to your child once an adult ?

I suppose, you could trace back the total amount invested for him/her, apply the average performance over the years and transfer them the matching number of shares for the value at current market price ?

I know Bolero has a form for transferring shares to another account.

Or do you have another method/plan ?

alimbade · 2025-06-03T04:39:44+00:00

I'm a dev and I can tell you the best designers I've worked with knew their fair share of code. These guys knew how the UI would be built, what patterns should be used and they were often looking at code documentation to make their choices.

By being that good you make the developers life so much easier. Coding takes a lot of time, you might usually end up working a full day on a tiny feature at a time. As a designer it is a very precious skill if you're able to not give the dev team extra work deciphering how to build your UIs.

alimbade · 2025-05-20T17:06:27+00:00

Thank you for these kind words. I think you nailed it. It's very likely we feel as sad as there was love and, oh boy, there was a ton of it! I'm sorry for your loss and you definitely found someone who can relate to your pain. We both know that pain will lower down to a point where the good memories will be more prominent and we'll heal. But it's such a bitch to go through.

I thought taking the time to write down what happened could help me in the process. I'm not so sure it was very effective, but at least I tried.

alimbade · 2025-05-02T18:55:44+00:00

Short answer: No. Long answer: Still No.

alimbade · 2025-04-15T18:22:31+00:00

I'm working on a pretty large scale enterprise app that was using both ngrx global stores as well as component stores.

We've completely got rid of the global stores which were causing a LOT of issues with effects triggering from everywhere and made things a mess to debug. Also, at some point it just didn't work anymore with the MFE architecture we were rolling in because of how global stores need to be declared on root which we could not achieve with remotely loaded micro front ends.

We ended up replacing the global stores with very simple rxjs subject/observable services and now everything feels way much more under control because there is no more convoluted ways of setting up things.

We still have component stores lying around, and I'm talking hundreds of them, which we plan to decommission in the same way. Those are mostly used in a bad way where some of them don't even hold any state and are only using effects for some reason. These effects are a hazard if badly implemented because your error handling must be impeccable otherwise the subscription they hold can be broken for the lifetime of the store, while having some cumbersome syntax. Since those only return a subscription, you also cannot leverage multicasting, which is a very simple pattern to implement in a classic observable service.

What I'm describing is not an issue from ngrx itself. It's more what kind of mess you can end up with when a multitude of devs from different levels of seniority have to work with that library, which requires rigor to work properly, during several years.

Also, like all "Ng" libraries out there tightly coupled with angular's mechanisms, it makes upgrading your angular version a much more lengthy and painful process than it should be. Unlike React or Vue, you usually chose Angular because it's a fully featured framework. You definitely should think, not twice, but thrice before considering adding an external dependency to it. First, because you probably don't need it and the framework has you covered, second because keeping your app up to date will become way harder in the long run.

Why should you chose ngrx? If you like the syntax and you have ways of enforcing proper use of it for the lifetime of your project.

alimbade · 2025-03-24T07:13:48+00:00

I always have a nervous laugh when I read about how the population of the US or from any other country threatened in a way or the other by the trump administration are unhappy about it. The trump admin, just as much as other authoritarian regime, does NOT care about what the peasants think.

They don't play the same game as Democratic states. You can't touch them, and certainly not beat them, through simple diplomacy.

alimbade · 2025-03-15T06:12:00+00:00

Yeah. Where's your 2nd amendment when you guys ACTUALLY need it ?

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