The border:none conference was in Germany last week followed by an IndieWebCamp event, so several indieweb people were there. In the chat, the amount of current Covid cases was brought up and a mention of how few were masked in a crowd of about 200.
One of the students I work with accesses the web, and computing generally, through the JAWS screen readerI feel so fucking lucky for the experience of teaching someone who uses technology this way. Accessibility has always been important to me, but it's always been abstractI've …
While Twitter’s current owner continues to seek the spotlight, his manic stewardship of the platform has seen most peoples attention move to alternative social networks and ways of connecting with each other.
I kind of miss having something like a LiveJournal.If you missed its heyday about twenty years ago, LiveJournal was a private blogging community that led to much of what we know as social media. You could follow your friends, and they could follow you back if they wanted; your …
I recently found myself reading Mark Lemley’s paper The Benefit of the Bargain while also helping a friend put together the Terms of Service (ToS) for their new startup. Lemley’s paper essentially argues that modern ToS - documents that are written by services to be one sided …
