Rolf Smeds
@rolfsmeds.bsky.social
💼 Product manager / UX + a11y guy.
🇫🇮 Finnish coastal dweller.
🌮 Quesadilla connoisseur.
🇫🇮 Finnish coastal dweller.
🌮 Quesadilla connoisseur.
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👾Vaadin Tutorial for Beginners: Beautiful UIs in Pure Java
My new step-by-step tutorial on using @vaadin.com with #SpringBoot to build awesome UIs. Create a login page, filtered search, and update form in just 15 minutes. No HTML or JS needed!
youtu.be/67oJxPRa3Mg
My new step-by-step tutorial on using @vaadin.com with #SpringBoot to build awesome UIs. Create a login page, filtered search, and update form in just 15 minutes. No HTML or JS needed!
youtu.be/67oJxPRa3Mg
Vaadin Tutorial: From Spring Boot to Beautiful UI Fast
YouTube video by CyberJAR
youtu.be
November 3, 2025 at 3:02 PM
👾Vaadin Tutorial for Beginners: Beautiful UIs in Pure Java
My new step-by-step tutorial on using @vaadin.com with #SpringBoot to build awesome UIs. Create a login page, filtered search, and update form in just 15 minutes. No HTML or JS needed!
youtu.be/67oJxPRa3Mg
My new step-by-step tutorial on using @vaadin.com with #SpringBoot to build awesome UIs. Create a login page, filtered search, and update form in just 15 minutes. No HTML or JS needed!
youtu.be/67oJxPRa3Mg
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Last chance to turn it off.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
October 31, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Last chance to turn it off.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
THE HTML ELEMENTS W3G DOESN'T WANT YOU TO KNOW ABOUT ⬇️⬇️⬇️
<head> and <header> imply the existence of <headest>.
October 25, 2025 at 8:29 PM
THE HTML ELEMENTS W3G DOESN'T WANT YOU TO KNOW ABOUT ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Hotel shower instructions so kinky I'm blushing
October 22, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Hotel shower instructions so kinky I'm blushing
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If you work in web standards, you RFC 2119 MUST read this article. alice.boxhall.au/articles/a-t...
A threat model for accessibility on the web - Alice
A explanation of the primary threat to accessibility on the web, and a call to action for the web standards community
alice.boxhall.au
October 2, 2025 at 3:24 PM
If you work in web standards, you RFC 2119 MUST read this article. alice.boxhall.au/articles/a-t...
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🧵 1/ Puhutaanpa vähän valtion velasta. Ajatus “velka pitää maksaa pois” kuulostaa arkijärjeltä: kotitaloudet maksavat velkansa takaisin. Mutta valtio ei kuole, ja sen velkaa voidaan aina uudistaa.
September 18, 2025 at 10:05 PM
🧵 1/ Puhutaanpa vähän valtion velasta. Ajatus “velka pitää maksaa pois” kuulostaa arkijärjeltä: kotitaloudet maksavat velkansa takaisin. Mutta valtio ei kuole, ja sen velkaa voidaan aina uudistaa.
Ours is a Crime Bean called Sparrow
September 16, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Ours is a Crime Bean called Sparrow
My favorite thing about attending Pride is watching previously unacquainted furries meet and greet each other.
August 24, 2025 at 6:26 PM
My favorite thing about attending Pride is watching previously unacquainted furries meet and greet each other.
I absolutely LOVE the VR (Finnish national railway company) app. It's an unusually bright beacon of modern, awesome looking, easy to use, and genuinely fun UI design.
The Finnish state railway company now has cute little standard avatars for app users (the trains are decorated in a similar design). Apparently I have reached the level of ”enthusiastic train traveller”, maybe there’s more levels ?
Anyways, I love it that Finland is such a serious country 🥹
Anyways, I love it that Finland is such a serious country 🥹
August 23, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I absolutely LOVE the VR (Finnish national railway company) app. It's an unusually bright beacon of modern, awesome looking, easy to use, and genuinely fun UI design.
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Reposted by Rolf Smeds
If I Must Starve
A poem by Nour Abdel Latif
July 22, 2025 - Gaza
If I must starve,
let it be with dignity in my children’s eyes,
not with my hands tied by silence.
Let the world witness
that I did not bow to the hunger
but stood, even as the sky emptied
and the earth closed her mouth.
(1/2)
A poem by Nour Abdel Latif
July 22, 2025 - Gaza
If I must starve,
let it be with dignity in my children’s eyes,
not with my hands tied by silence.
Let the world witness
that I did not bow to the hunger
but stood, even as the sky emptied
and the earth closed her mouth.
(1/2)
July 27, 2025 at 7:18 PM
If I Must Starve
A poem by Nour Abdel Latif
July 22, 2025 - Gaza
If I must starve,
let it be with dignity in my children’s eyes,
not with my hands tied by silence.
Let the world witness
that I did not bow to the hunger
but stood, even as the sky emptied
and the earth closed her mouth.
(1/2)
A poem by Nour Abdel Latif
July 22, 2025 - Gaza
If I must starve,
let it be with dignity in my children’s eyes,
not with my hands tied by silence.
Let the world witness
that I did not bow to the hunger
but stood, even as the sky emptied
and the earth closed her mouth.
(1/2)
I feel like I need to rant about the 10th circle of hell, i.e. #Berlin public transport ticket vending machines (Yes, this is about you, #VBB #BVG)
This Wednesday, I was at Südkreutz station on my way to the airport. I knew there was an S-Bahn train (S45) going straight there in about 30 minutes 1/
This Wednesday, I was at Südkreutz station on my way to the airport. I knew there was an S-Bahn train (S45) going straight there in about 30 minutes 1/
August 8, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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"Palestiinan tunnustaminen olisi vain symbolinen teko!"
Niinno, vuosina 1918-1919 eräs tuore valtio nimeltä Suomi lähetti valtuuskuntia ympäri maailmaa kirittämään Suomen itsenäisyyden tunnustamista.
Jännästi tuohon aikaan samoilla symbolisilla teoilla oli meille aika suuri merkitys.
Niinno, vuosina 1918-1919 eräs tuore valtio nimeltä Suomi lähetti valtuuskuntia ympäri maailmaa kirittämään Suomen itsenäisyyden tunnustamista.
Jännästi tuohon aikaan samoilla symbolisilla teoilla oli meille aika suuri merkitys.
August 1, 2025 at 3:26 PM
"Palestiinan tunnustaminen olisi vain symbolinen teko!"
Niinno, vuosina 1918-1919 eräs tuore valtio nimeltä Suomi lähetti valtuuskuntia ympäri maailmaa kirittämään Suomen itsenäisyyden tunnustamista.
Jännästi tuohon aikaan samoilla symbolisilla teoilla oli meille aika suuri merkitys.
Niinno, vuosina 1918-1919 eräs tuore valtio nimeltä Suomi lähetti valtuuskuntia ympäri maailmaa kirittämään Suomen itsenäisyyden tunnustamista.
Jännästi tuohon aikaan samoilla symbolisilla teoilla oli meille aika suuri merkitys.
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Since 2022, Israel has killed more *children* than Russia has killed Ukrainian civilians in total. And Russia is definitely trying its very best.
Note also Ukraine’s practically complete lack of warcriming.
But yeah, tell me more about how Israel is “fighting for its existence.”
Note also Ukraine’s practically complete lack of warcriming.
But yeah, tell me more about how Israel is “fighting for its existence.”
I wish it didn’t need:
- the genocide of 60,000 (w/ actual estimates being much higher)
- the death of over 20,000 children
- the mutilation of 100,000s
- the starvation of millions
- the genocide of 60,000 (w/ actual estimates being much higher)
- the death of over 20,000 children
- the mutilation of 100,000s
- the starvation of millions
July 27, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Since 2022, Israel has killed more *children* than Russia has killed Ukrainian civilians in total. And Russia is definitely trying its very best.
Note also Ukraine’s practically complete lack of warcriming.
But yeah, tell me more about how Israel is “fighting for its existence.”
Note also Ukraine’s practically complete lack of warcriming.
But yeah, tell me more about how Israel is “fighting for its existence.”
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On 27 May, an official document calling for regime change in European countries was published in Washington DC.
euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...
euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...
Trump is working on regime change in Europe — fact, not conspiracy theory
On 27 May, an official document, The Need for Civilizational Allies in Europe, calling for regime change in European countries was published, written by a senior adviser for the Bureau for Democracy, ...
euobserver.com
July 9, 2025 at 11:01 AM
On 27 May, an official document calling for regime change in European countries was published in Washington DC.
euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...
euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...
As I came back from the local Pride parade a few hours ago, I was reminded of the Where's Waldo / Tom of Finland crossover that @jojalonen.bsky.social and @vsaarenketo.bsky.social found in a deck of Children's Crusade Against Communism trading cards from the 1950s
July 5, 2025 at 7:41 PM
As I came back from the local Pride parade a few hours ago, I was reminded of the Where's Waldo / Tom of Finland crossover that @jojalonen.bsky.social and @vsaarenketo.bsky.social found in a deck of Children's Crusade Against Communism trading cards from the 1950s
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For people who don't use screen readers, it can be difficult to understand how screen readers work. If you're interested in learning how people use screen readers, check out this demo from Marc Sutton and The University of California San Francisco.
youtu.be/dEbl5jvLKGQ
youtu.be/dEbl5jvLKGQ
Screen Reader Demo for Digital Accessibility
YouTube video by UCSF Documents & Media Photography
youtu.be
June 30, 2025 at 6:25 PM
For people who don't use screen readers, it can be difficult to understand how screen readers work. If you're interested in learning how people use screen readers, check out this demo from Marc Sutton and The University of California San Francisco.
youtu.be/dEbl5jvLKGQ
youtu.be/dEbl5jvLKGQ
Seems obvious to me that Trump will attack Iran (and maybe topple the regime causing an Iraq-style power vacuum and inevitable chaos for years) so that he can brag about accomplishing something, now that he's realized that he's not, in fact, even remotely capable of ending the Russia-Ukraine war.
June 19, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Seems obvious to me that Trump will attack Iran (and maybe topple the regime causing an Iraq-style power vacuum and inevitable chaos for years) so that he can brag about accomplishing something, now that he's realized that he's not, in fact, even remotely capable of ending the Russia-Ukraine war.
Border-radius controls on bus ventilation panel! #css
I'm guessing it's actually for adjusting the airflow strength, butI seem to lack the mental model for mapping those shapes to it...
I'm guessing it's actually for adjusting the airflow strength, butI seem to lack the mental model for mapping those shapes to it...
June 13, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Border-radius controls on bus ventilation panel! #css
I'm guessing it's actually for adjusting the airflow strength, butI seem to lack the mental model for mapping those shapes to it...
I'm guessing it's actually for adjusting the airflow strength, butI seem to lack the mental model for mapping those shapes to it...
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Reposted by Rolf Smeds
@tuomasaysto.bsky.social taisi olla eka, joka itse huomasin varoittavan, että näin voisi käydä ja kävi. USA:n äärioikeistohallinto käyttää nyt sen teknologista hegemoniaa Eurooppaa vastaan:
www.sttinfo.fi/tiedote/7119...
www.sttinfo.fi/tiedote/7119...
MEP Aura Salla: Microsoftin esimerkki osoittaa Yhdysvaltojen voivan katkaista eurooppalaisten pääsyn kriittisen tärkeisiin käyttöjärjestelmiin | MEP Aura Salla
Yhdysvaltalainen Microsoft katkaisi kansainvälisen rikostuomioistuimen (ICC) pääsyyttäjän ja hänen henkilökuntansa pääsyn Microsoftin palveluihin ja sähköpostiin Yhdysvaltojen ICC:tä kohtaan asettamie...
www.sttinfo.fi
May 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
@tuomasaysto.bsky.social taisi olla eka, joka itse huomasin varoittavan, että näin voisi käydä ja kävi. USA:n äärioikeistohallinto käyttää nyt sen teknologista hegemoniaa Eurooppaa vastaan:
www.sttinfo.fi/tiedote/7119...
www.sttinfo.fi/tiedote/7119...
Finnish government says forced mass transfer of Palestinians would be a war crime, and demands Israel allow humanitarian aid into Gaza.
(Unfortunately the deal to buy air defense systems from Israel is still on...)
Article in Finnish: yle.fi/a/74-20162725
(Unfortunately the deal to buy air defense systems from Israel is still on...)
Article in Finnish: yle.fi/a/74-20162725
Pääministeri Orpo: Väestönsiirto Gazasta on sotarikos, Suomen Israelista tilaamaa ilmatorjuntajärjestelmäkauppaa ei peruta
Israel on estänyt humanitäärisen avun eli lääkkeiden, ruoan ja polttoaineen toimittamisen Gazan kaistalle maaliskuun alusta lähtien.
yle.fi
May 19, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Finnish government says forced mass transfer of Palestinians would be a war crime, and demands Israel allow humanitarian aid into Gaza.
(Unfortunately the deal to buy air defense systems from Israel is still on...)
Article in Finnish: yle.fi/a/74-20162725
(Unfortunately the deal to buy air defense systems from Israel is still on...)
Article in Finnish: yle.fi/a/74-20162725
I have a feeling that this will be the answer to "What radicalized you?" for a lot of people.
Certainly gives me a bit of a flag-burning itch at least.
Certainly gives me a bit of a flag-burning itch at least.
BREAKING: The Trump administration is working on a plan to permanently relocate up to 1 million Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to Libya, five people with knowledge of the effort told NBC News.
Trump administration working on plan to move 1 million Palestinians to Libya
Details are murky and no final agreement has been reached, but the plan is under serious enough consideration that the administration has discussed it with Libyan leadership.
nbcnews.to
May 17, 2025 at 6:46 AM
I have a feeling that this will be the answer to "What radicalized you?" for a lot of people.
Certainly gives me a bit of a flag-burning itch at least.
Certainly gives me a bit of a flag-burning itch at least.