For months, my partner has been struggling with the Maine Coon sleeping on the pillow next to her, which inevitably led to neck pain and bad sleep. We tried everything but he was immovable. The solution was the smaller cat sleeping there instead, now the Maine Coon avoids that spot. 😂

I've decided that the best way to present my next blog post is to use animated charts. Also I've never done accessible data visualization before. If you find me sobbing at any point in the next month, this is why

I accidentally became Rogue today. I was painting the bedroom and at some point my bangs must have touched the wall because I looked in the mirror and panicked that I had gone gray 😂 thankfully it washed out

“I could teach you how to make a complex web app in a few weeks.” no you couldn’t, bc even if the code comes out perfect (it won’t), by definition a web app has to be deployed, run and constantly maintained in the face of exploits, changing standards, accessibility & browser bugs, performance…

I've been lying to you all along. I'm not really a web developer, i'm a horse consultant who emerges once every 12 years when every artist learns how weird and particular horse anatomy is and intuitively seeks out the most horse-girl adjacent person in their friend group for advice

🫰 look what i did for my buddy Nik!

over a year ago, i gave a talk at the xoxo conference about a mural, a mcdonald’s, and a man. (but it was also secretly about life, and legacy, and meaning.) finally, i’m blogging the full story, with behind-the-scenes details, and a video of the talk. enjoy. cabel.com/wes-cook-and...

📝 Wishcessibility What do recycling and accessibility have in common? www.nicchan.me/blog/wishces...

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-

I've been on a bit of a social media hiatus, but I've written a new post about something that's been on my mind a lot lately localghost.dev/blog/stop-ge...

I had the privilege of penning an article for the latest issue of @goodinternetmagazine.com! It is all about the process of making and experiencing art and how friction and inefficiency needn't be dirty procurances to avoid and evade. goodinternetmagazine.com/rebelling-ag... #IndieWeb #SmallWeb

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.

Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.

I spent the past month examining how accessibility in design underpins digital infrastructure and how federal divestment creates brittle, inaccessible platforms. This backslide isn’t inevitable. We can reject it and do better in our work. I explain how in this piece annaecook.com/writing/2026...

📝 It’s true. I’ve been there. I’ve seen these pages made. Despite the familiar title of the page feeling like an invitation — “Contact Us” — the reality is that so many of these pages are designed to keep you from doing precisely that. blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/dont-co...

I do understand CEOs in a way because I too like to see the big numbers go up but instead of ruining the planet and the lives of millions of people I just play incremental games like a normal person

I have free afternoon today so I think it's finally time to switch to Linux Mint permanently? Bye windows i hated you

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I published one of those posts about this past year of work and personal stuff. janmaarten.com/2025-year-in...

🦊 We got some snow this weekend, which thankfully made for light shoveling. And I met a neighbor, right when I needed to. ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/i-find...

The Friendship Material podcast reminded me of my favorite mondegreen from when I was a kid. I thought the line 'Like a wannabe, I gotta be chained to you' from Savage Garden was 'like a wallaby'. I chalked this up to them being Australian.

Miette likes to sit like an old man at the park

I’m not a big user of BlueSky (yet), but if anyone sees this I’m looking for work. I’m a front-end developer, with a focus on low-carbon, design-led, accessible, websites — often using Astro and headless CMSs like Storyblok. I’m open to freelance or possibly the right perm role 🤞

Encountered an interesting bug with a drag and drop canvas interface today. In Firefox-based browsers, the direction of my pointer was inverted, making this form filling exercise the worst video game I've ever played

My friend asked me to help her shop for wedding dresses and it was so much fun! I really do love fashion but I try not to overconsume so it's an interest that goes neglected. Take me to your wedding dress shopping outings please!!

per my point about the mercator projection being the root of this whole thing

Partner: so we have these cows at work- Me: COWS? you have actual cows at work? Partner: yeah, Computers On Wheels, is that not a term? 🐄

I ran the values from the ChatGPT-generated color contrast report included in the article through WebAIM's contrast checker and got dramatically different values. I'm not sure this article actually proves the point it's trying to make.

'It Was Just an Accident' is easily one of the best films I've ever seen. It deals with heavy themes, but it's well worth the watch if you get the opportunity!

Thank you for wanting to share it 🥺 Focus State editions will be posted on the feed on my site, you can see the first edition there and share! annaecook.com/focus-state

After updating my list of slop bots that you can block with a robots.txt file (at least the ones who actually respect robots.txt). Since the last update, the list has doubled in size. 🙃

The 11ty meetup community is so kind and supportive! It really made speaking a breeze, this is a great opportunity for those who want to dip their toes into speaking!

Sundays are about taking 10 minute detours so you can visit the neighborhood cat

Shamelessly hopping on the trend of celebrating the small wins of 2025! www.nicchan.me/blog/2025-re...

you’re right! it feels mostly awful to Go Online™, these days. the internet in a sad state, for reason after reason after reason. but there is a way to fix it; to trade the voidful howling for a quiet & joyful song. here’s how to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.

2026 is off to a great start, got harassed by uniformed security guards! Don't know how to tell them that they are shit at their jobs by making women feel unsafe. Also tried to get on an escalator going the wrong way in my distress 😅

No, I don't think I want 50{:end_link=>"", :test_observability=>"", :accessibility_testing=>"", :test_management=>"", :app_percy=>""}roductivity gains if this is the kind of code it spits out.

It's basically as cold as it gets in Hong Kong so we've finally decided to replace our broken air conditioning unit and reader, the number of times someone has laughed at us for replacing the aircon in winter is actually mind boggling. Who is waiting until it's actually hot to do this? 🤯

Merry Christmas! Thought this little street shrine decorated for Christmas was a cute but poignant statement

I've had an execeptionally tough year. I have no income or health insurance, and could really use your help finding my next paid project. 💜 semanticfish.com/2025-year-in... Open to front-end, full-stack, design system, & accessibility projects. 10+ years experience. Many more details in post!

My highschool classmate just sent me my yearbook entry and i just recalled i had a shoutout to my favorite irc channel... I was meant for this nerd life

I was trying to pick out a new aircon and was overwhelmed with all the options. I went to the store and they immediately pulled up this chart, which has all of their available models arranged by brand and horsepower, with helpful info all in the listing. Maybe we're doing appliance e-commerce wrong

Me upon seeing that YouTube has put the ability to put faster playback speeds behind a paywall: You fool, I have studied the arcane arts! -opens console-

I'm at a mexican place and someone just asked for ketchup, is it time for the guillotine

A rant in the face of the industry's continued neglect and outright hostility towards digital accessibility and care for users. vale.rocks/posts/access... #WebDev #Accessibility #a11y #FrontEndDevelopment

I'm so good at self control. If can work through Steam showing me notifications that all my US friends are playing [random co-op game that I play with them on weekends] then I can work through anything.

I'm at the once in a decade Kam Tin Jiao festival and the announcer just said 'the parade will now enter the grounds, please move out of the path of the dragon' and that's got to be one of the coolest loudspeaker announcements possible

Apparently my latest blog post ranks for the keywords 'fuck' and 'fucking' and I cannot begin to tell you how disappointed people will be if they click into the post after searching for those terms 😅

Today i went to the top of HKs tallest mountain to gather cow shit! I ain't passing up this opportunity to do a literal shit post! I also got to use a scythe for the first time, very fun

I've volunteering at the shelter for 10 years and I have never seen a cat with face fluff as long as Hendrix. It's absurd!!