Hidde de Vries (@hdv) is a freelance front-end and accessibility specialist in Rotterdam (NL), conference speaker and workshop teacher. Currently, he works for the W3C in the WAI team (views are his own). Previously he was at Mozilla, the Dutch government and various other organisations and businesses.
This week, somebody proposed to replace HTML, CSS and JavaScript with just one language, arguing “they heavily overlap each other”. They wrote the separation between structure, styles and interactivity is based on a “false premise“. I don’t think it is. In this post, we’ll look …
Rebecca Watson made an excellent video about how the recently-released COVID-19 risk map is not particularly helpful, due to the lack of context provided and the public’s general lack of understanding about how statistics work. It’s well worth watching (and also talks about a few …
I attended IndieWebCampEast over the weekend and met some good people furthering the web. Like all IndieWebCamps, its well documented thanks to the amazing hosts Chris Aldrich and David Shanske.
I started getting some emails recently from people having issues using The Session. The issues sounded similar—an interactive component that wasn’t, well …interacting.
There is so much work ahead, so much to repair, let’s use this opportunity to build back, and make things better together. President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris transition site and socials are live –https://buildbackbetter.com/
I've spent a few hours here and there over the last few months building a text adventure game.I grew up with adventure games. The Secret of Monkey Island was foundational for me: an irreverent point and click story with an anarchic sense of humor that completely appealed to my …
Like many people, 2020 has creatively consumed me. It's hard to give your undivided attention to something, or put yourself in a truly creative flow, when so much is going on. The sheer onslaught of new information - some newly jaw-dropping story seems to be showing up four to …