6 years ago I started a side project to build a web accessibility tool that prioritises simple reporting and quick feedback loops so that teams can fix a11y regressions before they affect users. I am so proud to say that side project is now finished, and A11y Pulse is live. www.a11ypulse.com

I’m not sure if impressed or concerned, maybe some of both: Not handing over your passwords to federal police can result in jail time of 10 years. Ahhh the colonies

The ASA welcomes the Albanese Government’s decision to rule out a Text and Data Mining (TDM) exception to Australian copyright law, which would have allowed for AI training on authors’ work. aapnews.aap.com.au/news/copyrig...

I watch a lot of open source projects’ issues on GitHub. On a regular occurrence, maintainers are politely asking “could you please disclose if you used LLM to generate this PR”. This is the polite and exhausting way to say “this looks like incomprehensible bullshit, why are you wasting our time?”

Any boss that says 'no politics at work' almost certainly has shitty beliefs and will create space for their own politics. Seen it play out too many times to believe otherwise.

I guarantee we’ll see lots of untested, shoddily implemented ARIA as a result of this. Because they’ll use LLMs to implement it.

Time to crank out the ol' us-east-1 ouija board

“AI artist” is mad because someone took the phrase, “day to night transition” FROM HIM and generated an image based on stolen content. Apparently this constitutes as intellectual property theft. Someone call the cops, this child is upset.

If you want to drive a car that makes more than 70dB of tailpipe exhaust noise, you have to pay a monthly premium levy to the local EPA, and you aren't allowed to drive it between 10pm and 7am.

I see a lot of people discovered the <output> tag for the first time this week. My question is: why are you excited by it? I really can’t think of a pattern where it would be actively useful? It seems too limited to be valuable.

My take is that either Next.js doesn't make it easy enough to create sites that perform well, or it's just not good technology. Having used Next.js for several years (along side lots of other frameworks), and being super experienced in this area, I can tell you: It isn't a good framework.

I dug into progressive image rendering and found a bunch of common assumptions aren't quite true. ➡️ JPEG & WebP progressive-renders worse in Safari ➡️ AVIF _does_ support progressive ➡️ But JPEG XL in Safari doesn't ➡️ JPEG XL decodes much slower than AVIF ⬇️ and more jakearchibald.com/2025/present...

According to HTTP Archive, Next.js sites see the **worst** Core Web Vitals performance when compared to other popular frameworks httparchive.org/reports/tech...

Container queries and CSS make it simple to smoothly transition an element to the other side of its parent container without knowing exact dimensions or distance. Read more in my latest post: ryanmulligan.dev/blog/transit...

Back in 2015, there was a Reply All Podcast episode about a guy in France who made a living in the 80s using Minitel sex chat rooms where he pretended to be a few different women. 2025 Innovation: You can tell an LLM you want to fuck it 🙄 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1...

All this talk of teen social media ban from the eSaftey commissioner who wants to pick and choose websites that are “safe” or “not safe” (based on ??? criteria), but what about games like Roblox built for children having nazi and child pornography content? Crickets! www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

AirPods Pro 3 hearing test is pretty interesting, it plays tones at different frequencies at low volume. You tap the screen when you hear it. I had to breathe very slowly (or hold breath) to hear, but got good results.

I made something! Monomarks.at is an open social bookmarking tool along the lines of Pinboard or Delicious, and it's based on ATProto, because I was inspired by @danabra.mov's widely-read post. Log in with your Bluesky account to save bookmarks and browse links posted by the people you follow. 😎

If you think this is US-only, it's not. If you think the GDPR protects you, it's doesn't. If you hadn't realised privacy is a national security and corporate espionage issue, it is. If you think politicians can't tackle this, they can. If you believe that tech or business need this, they don't.

Today Vercel (derogatory) announced their series F funding, with a valuation of 9.3 Billion. It’s another $300m investment round. Cancel your account today, let’s see how quickly that valuation can drop.

If you work in tech and your response to governments forcing age verification is "Itz FiNe I‘ll jUst usE a VpN", then you missed the whole fucking point. This is when you use your knowledge, care, and moral backbone to protect the people you claim to build for.

Me: I wonder why I receive job applicants for jobs that don't exist? Also me: Oh. I think I know why.

Cool, we know exactly who Guillermo is now.

Surprising no one, Mr Tailwind shits his pants, licks boots, and has happy bedfellows with fascists.

Next month in Melbourne, Russ Weakley and I are running a workshop on mobile accessibility testing at A11y Camp. We'd love to have you to join us. Workshop details: a11ycamp.com.au/workshops/ and tickets at events.humanitix.com/a11y-camp-au... #a11y

Molly Baz got weirdly AI cloned by Shopify Classy company, hey? www.threads.com/@danwhateley...

100 days to go in 2025 🥴

Under 16s social media ban is going to: - Push kids into worse, more dangerous content - Risk the privacy of every adult Australian via botched age verification - Limit Australian technology sector development Why are we doing this again?

iOS 26 seems to have issues with dark mode where some elements (buttons, search inputs, etc) switch to LIGHT MODE regularly. It's quite distracting and not great in low light. "Liquid glass" is fine, as long as you turn transparency off in accessibility settings 😅

Companies build web products where the designers don’t understand CSS and either do the developers. I just can’t put my finger on why the web sucks so much.

in case you're not sure who dhh is, he's a danish counterstrike player and race car owner who writes essays like "i am smarter than you" and "foreigners bad" rich enough not to worry about consequences but at the very same time, still desperate for status, a man two friends short of a podcast

📸 I wired up Playwright test to take retina screenshots of every page of Calibre app with curated seed data Covering many scenarios: - Light/dark mode - Admin functions - Nav visible/collapsed - Scrolled-to/focused sections for settings & reports 200+ screenshots to reference, super helpful 🤠

I might have a little cry when Firefox finally supports text-wrap: pretty

Shoutout to everyone who rode thier bike today 🤗

This is one impressive visual guide to implementing the Liquid Glass effect kube.io/blog/liquid-...

You can get around the Bluesky age verification block using PiHole on a Raspberry Pi, by adding `ip.bsky.app` to your blocked domains ✅

GitHub are gonna start blocking Actions releases from Marketplace. That is, unless I agree to new, onerous terms. I can't possibly find the time or resources to review this agreement (OR take on its new risk), just to be part of the "marketplace". My action is OSS & Free. Absolute bullshit.

If you need to get something done today, here's 2 hours of Japanese Ambient/Electronica. Nice braining music. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPnd...

Fun quiz for CSS fanatics out there 🤓 Give Sunkanmi a follow too 👍

GitHub Image Actions Compresses images in your PRs Costs nothing Runs in seconds github.com/calibreapp/i...

🚨 GitHub image-actions 1.3.0, out now: Before: Compress all repository images until there isn't anything left to compress = Runs slow, kind of helpful After: Runs strictly within your PR - new and updated images get compressed = Lightning fast & awesome github.com/calibreapp/i...

Fun quiz for CSS fanatics out there 🤓 Give Sunkanmi a follow too 👍

image-actions docker image has been pulled 677,000+ times and likely compressed tens of millions of images. Feels good man 🙇‍♂️

⭐ After 5 long years, I've released 1.2.0 of image-actions github.com/calibreapp/i... To recap: - You add image-actions to GitHub Actions - image-actions runs on each Pull Request - JPG, PNG & WebP images are automatically compressed & committed - Your PR includes optimised images ✨

Coffee drawer looking stacked

Starting the long trip home to Australia with a quick night in Warsaw, then back to Australia and the last 7 days of winter