“Stories from the Trenches: What I’ve learned from Working as a Blind Developer for a Sighted Dev Team - 24 Accessibility”

“Toggling Animations On and Off, a Variation”

An autumn photo from Parc Jarry that I forgot to post the other day

“On Switching from an iPad Pro and a Macbook to a Pixelbook — Fraser Speirs”

“Should people really have to buy two computers from Apple to get the best of both worlds?”

Everything in this post:👍🏻

“Words have consequences“

“These publications aren’t just reporting hate crime. They’re fostering it.”

So people at home seem to be celebrating the hundred year anniversary of Iceland’s self-rule by going out to protest against bigoted and corrupt politicians.

Seems appropriate.

“Something crazy happened in parliament last night, and no one is talking about it”

“Potential Changes to UC’s Relationship with Elsevier in January 2019”

This is interesting.

“WPCampus Seeks to Raise $30K for Gutenberg Accessibility Audit – WordPress Tavern”

“Publishing As an Act, Not an Industry – Zoe Wake Hyde”

“Should I Use JavaScript to Load My Web Fonts?”

“Google Pixel Slate review: slapdash software ruins good hardware - The Verge”

If ChromeOS ever manages to nail those bugs, stabilise Linux Apps, and give Android apps easy access to external storage it’ll become a very compelling general purpose OS

“But back in the day, indies helped indies and the hardware discounts were transferable, and I did what was the completely obvious thing to do.”

“ I think the days of using Medium as an online home for your identity and writing are stone cold dead”

“David Barnard - Blog - How to Game the App Store”

“The Digital Maginot Line”

“A Note on Robert Silverberg“

“Major sites running unauthenticated JavaScript on their payment pages – Terence Eden’s Blog”

Sigh.

“Let’s prove tech companies wrong on regulation – Doteveryone – Medium”

“40 Years After Assassinations, Assessing the Legacies of Harvey Milk and George Moscone“

“How to Survive the Next Era of Tech (Slow Down and Be Mindful) - The New York Times”

Here’s an accessiblity benefit to Electron apps: they all provide fairly granular full UI zoom for us middle-aged folks.

“FOSS is free as in toilet”

Author compares FOSS to public infrastructure (e.g. public toilet). Public infrastructure is never free. Unpaid for, a public toilet is just a hole full of shit

“Animation at Work #5 State Machines”

“Why You Should Consider hapi – hueniverse”