Nic

codes on the weekdays and draws on the weekends. tech stuff, web accessibility, cats, and fire emblem💖

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RE: indieweb.social/@NicMakesStuff

What a great article!

„One sad reality of our current tech hype cycle means that if you asked your boss for $200 to do some testing with disabled users, they would probably say no, but if you asked them for the same $200 to have access to an LLM so you could generate some user personas, they would probably say yes.“

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Hey everyone! Over the last few months I've been working on a lot of accessibility focused projects to do with Wayland, because a lot of the gaps just weren't getting filled. I've created an accessible waybar alternative, notification daemon, clipboard history manager, accessibility first greeter for greetd, and a lot more. Each one is designed with screen reader accessibility first, visual stuff later. You can find them here: https://github.com/destructatron
#accessibility #a11y #linux #wayland #opensource

📝 Wishcessibility

What do recycling and accessibility have in common?

nicchan.me/blog/wishcessibilit

The Lunar New Year tradition is for married couples to hand out red envelopes filled with cash. By refusing to legalize gay marriage, the government is creating a system by which queer people inadvertently receive reparations for the rest of their lives. In this essay, I will-

@ryan When i first realized i couldn't stare at the screen for 12 hours a day without consequence, that was a very bad day

@AmeliasBrain happy birthday Amelia! Sending you good sleep vibes 💤

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Adrian Roselli, pH0aardrian@toot.cafe
2026-02-09

“Honoring Mobile OS Text Size”
adrianroselli.com/2026/02/hono

Looks at the new HTML thing proposed from CSSWG (yeah, not confusing) and tries to merge Safari’s propriety hack with Google’s CSSWG proposal and Canary implementation. Firefox just works.

#HTML #CSS #accessibility #a11y

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Matthias Ottmatthiasott
2026-02-09

✍️ New article: Webspace Invaders

👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾

matthiasott.com/articles/websp

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David Bushell ☕db@social.lol
2026-02-09

blogged: Big Design, Bold Ideas
dbushell.com/2026/02/09/big-de

I polished my website; fresh design and a no holds barred content strategy!

thanks to @vale for the indispensable help

@db ugh i LOVE it, now i need to redesign 😂 I love the color scheme!

@tylersticka perfect Sunday

@vale oh my god... 🤯

I'm archiving some family photographs and how come both my parents are unbelievably model-esque and I look like a potato, life is simply unfair.

My mom, a chic Chinese lady looks like she's straight out of an 80s movie. My dad is a Chinese man with a jaw that can cut glass in his passport photo.

@jaffathecake If you yell it out faster it's fair game

@jaffathecake my partner is an emergency doc so we like to guess whats wrong with the patient, and in the extremely rare times I guess it right first, I feel unstoppable 😎

@robinwhittleton I've been really impressed with the progress Ikea has made, will be tuning in!

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Larry GarfieldCrell@phpc.social
2026-02-03

I may regret this at some point, but I felt the need to put down in writing how I feel about this moment in the tech industry.

It is not kind. You may well be insulted by it. If you are... then you really should question yourself.

garfieldtech.com/blog/selfish-

#AI #LLM #Programming

@possiblyaxolotl Charming site, I love the color scheme :blobcat:

@hejchristian glad to know I'm not the only one consumed by these thoughts

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