Today I realized that I'm older than HTML, CSS, and Javascript - all three 😂
HTML
1993; 32 years ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML
Javascript
4 December 1995; 29 years ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScr...
CSS
17 December 1996; 28 years ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSS
🎶 On the fifth day of house-hunt my agent showed to me
✨Bad neighborhood! ✨
dated kitchen cabinets
asbestos tiles
lead paint is peeling
and we have to waive all contingencies 🎶
You already know the Internet is all bots lately…
But it’s even more pervasive and sophisticated than you might think 😱
www.fastcompany.com/91321143/bot...
This is the kind of thing I see with universal basic income polling.
Poll: "People would stop working if provided basic income independent of work."
45% agree
55% disagree
Poll: "YOU would stop working if provided basic income independent of work."
4% agree
96% disagree
Looking at under-desk treadmills?
I found this google sheet that compares them! (from a Reddit post)
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
I got this one first:
REVO Walking Pad
But the max speed was a little slow for me (I walk very fast!)
So I upgraded to this one:
UREVO Strol 1 Pro Treadmill
The next one that seemed viable was LambdaTest, but they don’t offer a trial
(I even reached out to support - they just harassed me to get on a call 😩)
I’m evaluating manual browser testing tools like Browserstack and Sauce Labs.
Most tools I’m comparing these two to are much less full featured. These two are the frontrunners!
The biggest difference is pricing:
Browserstack is per-user
SauceLabs is “parallel test” number (simultaneous users)
How the lang=“en” attribute is important even if your site is only in English…
The time when Pew Research surveys had “yes” replaced with “forks” 😂
www.pewresearch.org/decoded/2025/03/21/how-a...
CAPTCHA means “Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart”??
There’s an organized boycott against Target:
apnews.com/article/40-day-target-bo...
It’s the year of mass boycotts!
avoiding Target, shifting more to Costco
…and I just learned that websites can leverage this feature, too!
It even works with custom fonts -- we can leverage how the apple system font would scale to adjust our own custom font's scaling.
dev.to/colingourlay/how-to-supp...
Should our websites support Dynamic Type for iOS devices?
A lot of folks with low vision increase their font size on their phones system-wide using the Font Size settings under Accessibility (me too!)
This setting affects the system UI (Settings, etc) and many/most native iOS applications…
I rearrange furniture so much, I can’t imagine doing it!
Have you ever actually installed an anti-tip kit for furniture? 👀
Are you a parent? 👀
https://conference-handbook.readthedocs.io/
I read this 10 years ago and it helped shape the way I run community events.
But I keep losing the link! So glad I found it again
It’s written for big tech conferences (python/django) but a lot of the ideas apply well to smaller events too.
Scatterplot titled “Empirical Evidence of Ideological Targeting in Federal Layoffs: Agencies seen as liberal are significantly more likely to face DOGE layoffs.” • The x-axis represents Perceived Ideological Leaning of federal agencies, ranging from -2 (Most Liberal) to +2 (Most Conservative), based on survey responses from over 1,500 federal executives. • The y-axis shows Agency Size (Number of Staff) on a logarithmic scale from 1,000 to 1,000,000. Each point represents a federal agency: • Red dots indicate agencies that experienced DOGE layoffs. • Gray dots indicate agencies with no layoffs. Key Observations: • Liberal-leaning agencies (left side of the plot) are disproportionately represented among red dots, indicating higher layoff rates. • Notable targeted agencies include: • HHS (Health & Human Services) • EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) • NIH (National Institutes of Health) • CFPB (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau) • Dept. of Education • USAID (U.S. Agency for International Development) • The National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE), despite its conservative leaning (+1 on the scale), is an exception among targeted agencies. • A notable outlier: the Department of Veterans Affairs (moderately conservative) also faced layoffs despite its size. Takeaway: The figure visually demonstrates that DOGE layoffs disproportionately targeted liberal-leaning agencies, supporting claims of ideological bias. The pattern reveals that layoffs were not driven by agency size or budget alone but were strongly associated with perceived ideology. Source: Richardson, Clinton, & Lewis (2018). Elite Perceptions of Agency Ideology and Workforce Skill. The Journal of Politics, 80(1).
The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️
At 400% zoom, the whole screen is just 2-3 input fields.
That helped with her vision AND cognitive load, both.
Thankfully, medicare.gov and ssa.gov both worked pretty well at that zoom level!
At 100% or 200% zoom she couldn't read anything.
At 300% zoom she could read headings, but not text.
At 400% zoom she was able to read everything.
Another accessibility story 📖
Last night I was helping my mother in law navigate medicare.
She has low vision, and she has trouble navigating websites (~cognitive load).
I projected my laptop screen onto the TV at 400% zoom so she could see what I was doing.
OBSERVED EFFECTS OF UBI No significant reduction in labor supply (38 studies meta-analysis) Increased self-employment (301%) and part-time employment (17%) Slight decrease in alcohol and tobacco use (31 studies meta-analysis) New mothers extend their maternity leaves Birth weights improve due to better maternal nutrition Graduation rates and educational outcomes improve Hospitalization rates decline (8.5%) Crime goes down (15%–42%) especially illegal hunting (95%) Domestic violence decreases (30%–51%) Trust increases (13% in politicians | 6% in other people) Home ownership rates increase (17%–26%) Food security increases as does consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables Improved cognitive functioning (43%) and personality traits (31%) Savings go up, debts go down Source: scottsantens
I've been researching the idea of Unconditional Universal Basic Income since 2013. Here's a collection of findings I've compiled from various UBI experiments and studies of cash transfer programs around the world.
This will be a VERY LONG and ongoing thread focused entirely on empirical evidence. 🧵
This is a fun free online game!
Guessing drawings
skribbl.io
This is a post to both Mastodon AND Bluesky, using the app Open Vibe.
Let’s see how it works 👀
Looking to build a broader understanding of accessibility in gaming, but don't know where to start (or need a bit of guidance)?
No need to sign up for expensive certification programs thanks to many free online resources.
One we recommend is Microsoft's Gaming accessibility fundamentals training!
I'm pretty proud of this tree view component I helped to make. I wrote about the nuance of what went into it in the hopes that it can serve as a reference for others. #a11y github.blog/engineering/...
Screen capture of the page you get to when in bluesky settings, accessibility and then a toggle you can switch that means bluesky will remind you to post alt text before posting any image here. Thank you!
Artists! And people who post images, please post alt text, it helps those who can’t see well to describe what you’ve posted. You can set it in settings>accessibility to remind you to fill in alt text before posting 🥰
#alttext #accessibility
Did you know many #accessibility features designed for other issues can also help reduce cognitive load in games?
High contrast modes can make it easier to see useful items in visually overwhelming scenes, and volume sliders for different types of sound help players focus on important sounds.
Big support for DEI
DEI was popular before
DEI public favorability continues to be +19.
Pundits are wrong that:
1) DEI is unpopular. It's popular.
2) This recent support is thermostatic. This is NOT thermostatic. DEI favorability has been high throughout its existence (second pic).
We could definitely use more programming metaphors!
That sounds like an interesting article 👀
