Laptop case died. Time for new stickies.

One of my friends is volunteering in Kenya this summer. He was going to bring his brand new MacBook Neo. I talked him into bringing a burner laptop but his machine died. So I installed Windows 11 on a 2015 MacBook Air and documented the steps: drewking.dev/projects/win... #hardwarepreservation

Yikes! One big attack surface.

alt text: “Protip: alias sudo to ‘please’ for a much more wholesome Unix experience”

Need.

Is it just me or is Microsoft Dynamics CRM one big #A11Y fail? The teams button has a Z-Index of 1 and is jam packed with ARIA roles. It grabs the keyboard focus on every page, preventing people who navigate with a keyboard from easily using the app. There is no dark mode either. Rant below:

A coworker told me about Pummel Party and I’m really enjoying this game. Great way to ruin your friendships 😂

A client at work showed me Windows + V keyboard shortcut for smart clipboard and my life will never be the same. I don’t use windows on my personal computers and I’m curious if anyone has recommendations for clipboards on macOS (App Store) and Linux (flathub)?

the discourse on what jobs are acceptable to replace with generative AI reveals a lot about what we think of other people's jobs

Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. “Big tech has made their choice.” www.404media.co/google-has-c...

Made my first #JIRA ticket today. Feeling pretty accomplished. Cant go into details but the investigation shows that I found something important!

@profanity.accountant have I been naughty this year?

Working on a personal project I was going through hell with CORS and my backend dev was struggling to fix it on the Koa server. I went into the server code and moved koa/cors from api.ts to server.ts and that seemed to fix my problem. Now I can load API data from my Vite app. #codeinpublic

“My personal website is not an emergency service, so I’ll optimize the CSS when I get to it. Which is never.” — @ohhelloana.blog reminding us to set realistic expectations for our side projects #btconf

As Ring announces increased partnership with Flock and law enforcement, do not be fooled by reassurances that you can 'opt out.' Here's evidence that ICE tapped flock from local agencies sometimes without consent: www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...

I started collaborating on a project that uses Yarn managing node packages. Does anyone know if there is an equivalent to Node Version Manager available for managing Yarn versions in the command line?

I bought some Dutch licorice while I was on Granville Island from the Licorice Parlor. My only regret is I only bought 300 grams and not 3 kilograms.

Open Printer: an open-source inkjet printer with no DRM, no subscriptions, and repairable parts. Sometimes the best innovation is just making things work the way they should have all along.

Built a PC out of mostly used/free parts. It’s pretty fast and I’m happy with it. Gonna move my #homelab over to it soon. Next step will be getting some hard drives and an NVME boot drive. I hate #e-waste and micro$oft obsoleting good hardware worked out in my favor for this build. #DIY

Probably migrating my #homelab from a Rasberry Pi 4 running bare metal Jellyfin with caddy to an old mini PC I had returned to me. I want to use docker + caddy on Ubuntu to host nextcloud, Jellyfin, and an XMPP server. Any tips or docs for newbs? #selfhosting #selfhosted #selfhost #privacy #foss

“A threat model for accessibility on the web” alice.boxhall.au/articles/a-t... A deep, well-researched & cited piece detailing systemic failures down the web stack (standards bodies, browsers vendors, etc) which marginalize #accessibility and its voices — but with proposed solutions. #a11y

Went on a work trip to Maine and explored downtown Portland. First time on the east coast and I really enjoyed it. Looking forward to next time.

Throwback to the time I met Robert Redford on a ski day. Rest in peace.

I really need to edit the @wikipedia.org more. It's amazing what one focused person can do. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jess_Wade

Capitalization affects how people read hashtags or how people hear them on screen readers. Use #camelCase or #PascalCase in hashtags instead of lowercase. You could have #DoctorWhoRewatch ("Doctor Who Rewatch") or #doctorwhorewatch ("doctor whore watch.")

Updating LineageOS the old fashioned way using adb and fastboot. It worked! Giving the phone away to someone in need. I will miss 12 (music player) and the headphone jack though. Hopefully it is happy in its new home. @lineageos.org thanks for the mmrs. 😎

If you've been using a 📌 emoji to bookmark posts, @rafael.my and @samuel.bsky.team cooked up a special tool you can use to migrate them to your Saved Posts. Try it here: pin2saved.vercel.app

Fixed a friends problem with apt on Ubuntu yesterday. Apparently nextcloud from snap and Mariadb don’t play nice together. I uninstalled nextcloud and mariadb. Then apt reinstalled mariadb using fix-broken install that seemed to fix the problem.

Just installed @grapheneos.org on my Android phone. Set it up with F-Droid and another App Store so I can install apps. Now what? 😎

But surely DEIA is the problem! /s

Finally got @jellyfin.bsky.social and copyparty setup on my @raspberrypi.com board. Great setup for an inexpensive local NAS. Especially since copyparty makes uploading easy and there are many clients that support Jellyfin. I’m glad I held on to all of my old purchases for this!

Accessibility matters, especially when it comes to accessibility of information on how to build accessible documents and applications. Glad this resource exists.

I made my grandma a nice custom email, only to find out her inbox is full. I should have wrote a card but I cannot art my way out of a box with pen and paper. 😭 #html #css #techproblems #epicfail

I was working on improving a contact form for a website I manage and everything worked on localhost, but was failing in prod. I thought my code was bad. But it turned out my server was running an old php version. Upgrade php and solved. 😄

I tend to agree with these points. Do you?

We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.

In her latest post, Sheri Byrne‑Haber shares 8 skunkworks projects anyone can start to make a real impact—no sign-off required. buttondown.com/access-abili... #Accessibility #A11y #InclusiveDesign #Skunkworks #DigitalInclusion #WebAccessibility #DigitalAccessibility

I did some web scraping with selenium. It all started when some data I needed was provided as a paginated HTML site. Apparently there is not a way to find therapists licensed in multiple states. I had to do an inner join on license data in two states to find one. @psychologytoday.com explain

@zed.dev and @lmstudio-ai.bsky.social make it very easy to setup my own local MCP for coding. I’m using Qwen3 at 32B parameters and I’m getting decent results. #MLX is a game changer since I can load bigger models on consumer hardware with it and still have GPU offloading. #AI #ML #SoftwareDev

Always remember to 𝚜𝚞𝚍𝚘 𝚊𝚙𝚝 𝚞𝚙𝚍𝚊𝚝𝚎 before you 𝚜𝚞𝚍𝚘 𝚊𝚙𝚝 𝚒𝚗𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚕 otherwise you will end up with this screen. Fortunately I was able to update the computer in a TTY session and reinstall the GUI. #Linux #Ubuntu

Great reason to use cloudflare for DNS, unless of course you want to be crawled for marketing purposes.

TRANS PEOPLE - If you've had your account on any social media site - but especially LinkedIn - censored, taken down, removed, etc, for using your chosen name - message me. I'm working on a story about this happening as a broad phenomena, and the more people I talk to the better. DMs open!

Debating if I should use motion.dev or not. Using JavaScript for animations is controversial. Anyone here have thoughts on why one should or should not use it? I plan on using it sparingly and defaulting to user preferences for animations if I do. #webdev

Gonna miss this floof when she goes home this afternoon.

Today I decided to learn about OpenGraph and implement it into my portfolio. Link cards look awesome :D #BuildInPublic #WebDev #LearnByDoing drewking.dev/projects/hig...

Which code project to work on today?

Just got my first websockets connection running using python. Stay tuned for more exciting updates! I will be rolling this out to do metadata push from the Pacifica Confessor API. #BuildInPublic #CommunityRadio #websockets

This is not a phase mom! #vintagephoto

If your organization relies on PDFs, the tools you use to create them can make or break accessibility. I explore which popular applications produce accessible PDFs, and which fall short. www.dennisdeacon.com/web/accessib... #PDFAccessibility #PDFs #PDF #DigitalAccessibility #A11y #Accessibility

Any Wordpress devs have experience with using Barba.js to prevent certain portions of the theme from reloading? I am planning a web player for the KBCS website that lives inside of the header and want to allow it to stay persistent while people navigate the site. #wpdev #cms #barba #wordpress