I was invited by the wonderful organizers of the “Gamez & ruleZ” conference to speak. I’m grateful to have been given an opportunity to discuss a topic that I’m passionate about: silly software (like desktop pets or other unusual programs that are hard to classify).
It's no secret that I don't like using Facebook, Instagram or Twitter as my primary platform for sharing photos and status updates. I don't trust these platforms with my data, and I don't like that they track my friends and family each time I post something.
I've added a little subscribe button to my #indieweb site. Anyone using mastodon, or any ActivityPub based site can see my posts. It'll act just like I'm a mastodon user :)
Commissioners Ashley Dittus and John Quigley are pleased to announce that the winner of the 2nd Annual Ulster Votes I Voted Sticker Contest is Hudson Rowan.
Context collapse is the favorite tool of the alt-right, but it has so many other implications. It’s important to avoid it, and to recognize where context collapse is leading to incorrect beliefs or actions.
the vampire part: look, I’m effortposting! There is a time-sensitive link in there – scoped to the next day, so I guess click through? Or don’t. You’re gonna be okay either way.
Hidde de Vries (@hdv) works in Sanity.io's developer relations team from Rotterdam (NL), is a conference speaker and workshop teacher. Previously he was at the W3C (WAI), Mozilla, the Dutch government and various other organisations and businesses.
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I'm so happy about what Interop 2022 is doing for web compatibility in general. It made me think: what if we had something similar, but accessibility-specific, focused on compatibility between our code, assistive technologies and browsers? Excitingly, ARIA-AT pretty much has that …
I’m having trouble shaking today from my bones, so consider this post an attempted exorcism.As I sit down to write, this was a day when a man broke into the Speaker of the House’s home in San Francisco, armed with a hammer, with the apparent intent of attacking her. When she …
We discussed syndicating notes from your website to Twitter at yesterday’s Homebrew Website Club in light of the upcoming Twitter ownership transfer, as a way to demonstrate existing POSSE technology and encourage more people to adopt IndieWeb approaches. I expressed that I …
Regardless of what happens after the Elon Musk acquisition (if it even still goes through!), I’ve been thinking a lot about the effect social media - and particular, Twitter - has had on me, and how to change my relationship to it.Alongside the sentiments of a lot of power users, …
I’ve been thinking about how I use my computer, and why I’m so dissatisfied with the experience. Here’s what I think, in a nutshell:My computer, as currently set up, is application-centric (or, if I wanted to be really uncharitable, brand-centric). If I want to save a note, I’ve …
The best times in my career have been when I’ve been tasked with solving interesting problems or making single-serving things, rather than working on a single specific project in the long term.
I change NaNoWriMo plans a lot. Most recently, I’m planning to write YES, ANDROID, a Star Trek: The Next Generation fanfic where Data recruits most of the bridge crew to join his improv team.
Last week a new Github Copilot investigation website created by Matthew Butterick brought the conversation about GitHub’s Copilot project back to the front of mind for many people, myself included. Copilot, a tool trained on public code that is designed to auto-suggest code to …
