> If you shoot someone and they don't have medical insurance, that doesn't mean you won't go to jail. If you pack a toaster with insufficient padding, that doesn't mean the insurance company will pay. You're responsible when you do something dumb […]

In the name of "spec adherence" browser implementors have creating something truly useless: A universal text colour contrast function that produces unreadable text. WCAG's garbage colour contrast algorithm is actively harmful.

For the few digipres people that follow me over here, this look into Disney's sound archives is pretty cool! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUIao8E-ipM

Affinity is free, I have thoughts! If you want to know what they are you can click this link: https://wilkinson.graphics/blog/2025-11-01-affinity-is-free/ If you don't want to know what they are, you can do other things! Ride a bike! Watch the sunset! The world is your oyster!

@designtokens now has a stable version! https://www.w3.org/community/design-tokens/2025/10/28/design-tokens-specification-reaches-first-stable-version/ Congrats to all involved! Looking forward to seeing this implemented across all the tools I use.

New blog post! Using 3D scan data created with my phone as reference imagery for underground mapping of subway stations in #openstreetmap Check it out! https://wilkinson.graphics/blog/2025-10-25-3d-mapping/

> I was hopeful he’d be eligible for subsidized housing through the state’s re-entry programs, only to find that many of the opportunities had been siphoned off to the Venezuelan immigrants, and nothing was available. A crisis of conservative design, this desperate scramble for scarce resources […]

question: "is the title field in a work registered in the DOI system a cost-effective means of storage" answer: curl https://api.datacite.org/dois/10.57874/531s-1f11 | jq -r '.data.attributes.titles[0].title' | base64 --decode | play -t mp3 - […]

@bjango :(

Another audio WIP: This time Axel F!

I have never wanted to do anything less

Through the power of special interest info-dumping, I may have secured a consulting gig lol

Wow the world of oscilloscope graphics has come a long way! https://osci-render.com/

Apparently if you edit Wikipedia enough you get access to JSTOR???

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge? It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door. Source code and a downloadable app to try it yourself […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Oh no I've made my way onto missile silo YouTube again

Docusign has an AI summarize feature which is kind of the exact thing I don't want when I'm signing documents.

“Mary Had Schizophrenia—Then Suddenly She Didn’t Some psychiatric patients may actually have treatable autoimmune conditions. But what happens to the newly sane?” https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/07/28/mary-had-schizophrenia-then-suddenly-she-didnt

@kiwix is now available as a TrueNAS app! If you run TrueNAS you're one click & a ~140GB Torrent away from having your own offline copy of Wikipedia!

Apple Maps on the web has been in beta for over a year now! Will they ever fully commit? https://maps.apple.com

New blog post! Don't get suckered into monthly fees for QR codes! https://wilkinson.graphics/blog/2025-07-15-qr-code-scam/

Who TF is Matt Wilkinson???

I've been hugely disastified with my Meshtastic radio's performance... Turns out I wasn't supplying it with USB-C PD power and now that I am everything works WAY better! 100 points to @makeworld for figuring this one out 😭

The new City of Toronto outdoor maps are seriously nice. Very curious as to who is responsible for them.

I've finally written about all the branding and website work I did alongside a few helpful collaborators and previous colleagues @webrecorder If you've ever wanted to know why we used those colours or the rationale behind the logos, answers lie within! […]

Switching to Navidrome for my music library has been a good excuse to finally get serious about metadata and quality. MusicBrainz Picard has been an invaluable tool. I didn't run all my Bandcamp library downloads through it, but I have started to re-tag everything with it before uploading to […]

Natron (open source compositing app) FINALLY has a new website created by yours truly! https://natrongithub.github.io/

New personal site will FINALLY have image comparison sliders! It's pretty cool how much easier web components have made it to integrate these types of things compared to 6 years ago when I first wrote my website. Used https://img-comparison-slider.sneas.io/ and integrated it in like 4 minutes.

@frankelavsky's thoughts on SaaS accessibility overlays perfectly match mine. Happy to see them validated be somebody else — I'm not crazy! https://www.frank.computer/blog/2025/04/overlays-are-for-suckers.html

@Myndex Is Max Contrast available as an NPM package?

Some results of recent computer tasks: • Have switched away from a crazy mix of pip, pipx, pyenv, and poetry to UV. As somebody who doesn't do a lot of Python, I like UV a lot. • Because of the UV switchover, my cool invoicing PDF creation script now uses a proper pyproject.toml instead of a […]

oh yeah and we're in beta now. https://sciop.net/ programmers needed, just got the core "we are a website" features working, now it's time for the fun stuff where we mess around with federation, group curation, mutability, etc. https://codeberg.org/Safeguarding/sciop

Sometimes when I look at Webrecorder's web analytics (self hosted!) I come across new sites that have interesting reasons for linking to the software. Today I found a new online community that is essentially Reddit for TERFs???

Cool website! https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/

A website / online book I really wanted to read has gone offline before I got around to reading it. I also work at Webrecorder, so I had the exact tools and expertise to prevent this from becoming an issue at my disposal the WHOLE TIME! 😭

#obsidian is recreational paperwork

New personal website is slowly coalescing!

Launched a bespoke mail-based social network in #toronto — if you like how mastodon is niche you'll LOVE https://postpost.social.

If you use Browsertrix and follow me you're getting the inside scoop that collections just got a big upgrade and you should check out yours / make some and share them with the world! :) Blog post with details coming soon...

Every once and a while a new to me artist comes out with a single that is pretty great but then they take a while to release the full album and you spend all that time thinking "will the rest of the album be as good as that one single?" "Worst of Sam Greenfield" friggin PULLS THROUGH and […]

I am in a constant adversarial relationship with any company that wants to send me emails.

Petition calling upon the Government of Canada to transition official government communications away from Twitter/X. https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Sign/e-5359 Please, sign and reshare. #canada #twitter #x

Made a new app icon for @makeworld's app: Dithertime! Check out his blog post about it here: https://www.makeworld.space/2025/02/dithertime.html ...Or grab it for yourself on Itch.io! https://makew0rld.itch.io/dithertime

> Gorton also feels mistake-friendly. The strange limitations of Gorton mean that some of the transgressions of other fonts don’t apply here. The monoline nature of the font means that messing with the size of Gorton is okay: Shrinking the font for small caps or superscript, for example, gives […]

The Internet is mostly shit these days, but every once in a great while I stumble across an incredible, passion-project website. This one is hand-animated weird art and it is worth your time as a fun decompressing thing in between your doomscrolling sessions. https://floor796.com I don't […]

Dithering app coming soon

Is it possible to donate to the NDP, get the tax rebate, and not have them bother me personally for the rest of my life?

Grabbed my full local copy of Wikipedia yesterday via @kiwix on the advice of @Em0nM4stodon. It's surprisingly easy and their macOS client is really slick!

Sign of the times...