Weird. There is an axe-con 2026, despite the promise last conference that automated tools would find and fix all accessibility issues by the end of this year. Do I need to work next year? I wanted to retire!* All those broken AI promises. (*I don’t have the money to retire and probably never […]

Why can’t other snooker tournaments not look as polished and valuable as the tournaments in Saudi Arabia? Great graphic design, filming some intros and having good interviews post match make it feel much more of a grown-up sport. #snooker

[“AI” Experimentation, Apple “Genmoji”, yes, it is as bad as you imagine.] I thought “if Genmoji can do one thing well, maybe it’s combining two emojis”. And so I put in “facepalm emoji” and “N95 mask”. This is the result. I don’t know why we need “AI”.

Well, it’s time to look at alternatives to DevonThink again… Enshittification is so prevalent. Because getting a cathedral image from Unsplash is an undue burden for people. And look, so many great photographs! https://unsplash.com/s/photos/cathedral?license=free @devontechnologies […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Kilian/115581243443067241 Hype Update!!!!!

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/115576716607198499 LLM = Lern Less, Mensch

Was die meisten Deutschen nicht wissen: Wenn man ein Fettnäpfchen irgendwo in der Welt hinstellt, dann hat man seit dieser Legislaturperiode eine nahezu 100%-ige Chance, dass der Bundeskanzler dort auftaucht. Und hineintritt. #brasilien #merz #kommentar #cop30 @tagesschau […]

I just discovered that current versions of Pages on the Mac export tagged PDF files by default. Only if tables contain more than 10,000 rows, will tags be omitted. That can be overridden by changing the Accessibility popup menu setting in File/Export/PDF under Advanced from „Standard" to "on“ […]

The more “AI” stuff is pushed the less I want to work in tech at all. Everything is “this is shit, but it is not shit enough to change anything”, and that just doesn’t work with my desire to do good quality, sustainable work that works for everyone – and especially for disabled people. I’m […]

In contrast to Claude Flair, my website has just an ordinary Error 500 (on @ubernauten). Guess what I will do with the rest of my afternoon. https://yatil.net

Oh, it is great that we have this network that is reliable and works. And then we rely on a man in the middle who goes down and that man, let’s call him Claude Flair, tells you that there is nothing wrong on your site and on the site that you want to access, but Claude is throwing an error. 😠

Porsche in der dt. Politik: “Verbrenner! Brumm! Brumm!” Porsche tatsächlich: “Wir haben ab nächste Saison zwei Teams!” https://www.the-race.com/formula-e/shock-formula-e-entry-porsche-creates-second-factory-team/

Curious that whenever someone shows me “the cool #ai flow” they built that’s supposed to be impressive, the conversation goes the same way: Stage 1: “But you don’t understand. You don’t like AI because you haven’t used it right. Let me show you how much you can do it with.” Stage 2: “Here are […]

Wednesday's episode of the @doubletap podcast featured an excellent interview with @glenrgordon58 following Glen's resignation from Vispero. This brought back so many good memories! I first met Glen at the very first European dealer workshop in the Black Forest in Germany in July 1996. We […]

WCAG 2.final 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 https://www.w3.org/events/meetings/7c7e68a1-2d98-4b85-b812-a9c3d2f6f50c/#agenda

This was about coding, but the words “vibe engineering setup” just sent shivers down my spine. How long until we see a “vibe bridge” coming down?

This is a great FormulaE introduction! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX3iGwvG32c #fiaformulae #formulae

Ah, die drei Gender.

The city I live in (about 8000 people) has now 9 apartments for homeless people, especially those who need psychological help. This is a great initiative and I hope it will support people to find their way back into employment and regular housing. Everyone deserves a roof above their head […]

Sorry, when did it become OK to ask people to work for free at 10 in the morning on a Sunday?

A few years ago I would have followed the TPAC hashtag because I would have wanted to know what’s going on. These days I mute it. Because the questions for me are: How much CO2 is released with everyone flying around half of the world? How many people will be infected by viruses like influenza […]

I was outside today. 😅

Aaron Swartz should have been 39 years old today #aaronswartzday

Männer, die die Welt verbrennen. Bizarr. Väter und Kinder in Ochtendung bauen Kolosseum fürs Martinsfeuer - SWR Aktuell https://www.swr.de/swraktuell/rheinland-pfalz/koblenz/vater-kind-aktion-zu-st-martin-kolosseum-ochtendung-100.html

Diese goldenen Schriftzüge am Weißen Haus… Das ist alles mehr Shein als Sein.

98% efficiency and 10% to 80% charge in 16 minutes? That’s bonkers! Love this cutting edge tech! https://racer.com/2025/11/06/porsche-details-tech-crossover-between-formula-e-and-road-going-cayenne-electric

See how in one of the shots there are supports for the glass panes visible in the logo? Sure they have been painted out by dedicated CG artists who are essential for these type of projects. The team made an interesting logo animation with various tools. No tool is better than the other […]

Wherein @TechConnectify says “No Effort November” but actually says “No effort? No! Vember!” https://mas.to/@TechConnectify/115492770702008676

Keep stuff simple. Yes, even your accessibility solutions. A simple approach is less likely to break, which will keep it accessible longer or forever. It might not be optimal for everyone in every situation, but rarely anything is. Don’t overthink it.

Some more good news this morning – UK children will be taught "how to spot fake news and disinformation, including AI-generated content" in new curriculum. This kind of media literacy education is so badly needed. I've written multiple letters to our MP asking for this over the years. It's good […]

Es ist seit 10 Jahren absolut dringend davon abzuraten, irgendetwas bei Monotype und seinen geschluckten Tochterfirmen zu lizenzieren. Kauft bei den Foundries oder bei Fontspring! https://mastodon.design/@rainerklute/115491566510253630

I really don’t like overtaking on the winding roads here, it’s usually not worth the risk. Today I had a slow moped in front of me and a very straight clear stretch of road. The way electric cars securely and steadily accelerate makes any overtake so much easier and safer. And before the next […]

Hey font people! I have a font with a stylistic set that I like to use, however that stylistic set includes a “slashed 0” which I don’t want to use because it can be misread as an Ø. Currently I just use font-feature-settings: "ss02" on; but what I need is to exclude the “slashed 0”. Is this […]

“AI Prompts For Web Accessibility Testing” For fuck’s sake.

International Championship Qualifiers Qual Round 1 🇨🇳 Bai Yulu (f) 4 - 6 Wang Xinzhong (a) 🇨🇳 Congratulations .: Wang Xinzhong :. 145 by Bai Yulu is the highest break by a woman in any tournament. Watch on YouTube. #internationalchampionship #snooker :reds […]

Putting open fire into a small conference room is certainly a choice, Traitors UK Season 2 finale. I don’t want to know the pm2.5 in that place. Clean air is so important.

Watching UK Traitors, because there traitors have a real chance to be banished, in contrast to real life. 🤷‍♂️

What would I do if random dudes on LinkedIn weren’t explaining to me how my job works?

Thinking of things “AI” (or a simple algorithm) could do reasonably well is recognizing that a Slack thread is about wishing happy birthday and de-prioritizing those notifications after I have commented.

Übergangsweise ein Parkplatz. Nicht ein Park. Weil das wär ja Nix für Autofahrende. 5,5 Millionen Euro. Erstmal für Parkplätze. "Schandfleck der Innenstadt": 15 Jahren stand diese Ruine leer, jetzt will die Stadt etwas ändern […] [Original post on yatil.social]

Visuals of the new logo notwithstanding, I find it irritating that it is applied to old specs as well.

Stunning new livery of the Porsche’s this year. #formulae #fiaformulae

Google Fonts: “Look how many great fonts we have, with Stylistic Sets that you can use to have distinguishable I and l characters!” Google Docs: “We don’t know what this is, you get only bad Is and ls.” Kids playset, disguised as an office suite. 🤷

I replied to @tantek.com’s critique/pointing out the backlash on the new W3C logo. I feel super uncomfortable pointing at resources that include the logo because of the shapes invoking body parts. I hope there is a way to address this. I just want my W3C logos boring and uncontroversial. (I […]

I so often mistype “Ingo and Relationships”, it’s not even funny. I don’t want anything to do with Ingo and his relationships. 🤣

[Anatomical “features”, tech logos] With all the “AI” companies using buttholes as logos, maybe W3C’s redesign is just timely. Will every logo be stylized private parts in the future?

If my salary was dependent on using “AI” tools and finding them “helping with my productivity”, I would probably find minor wins and present them as huge productivity improvements. That would be especially true if the person doing my performance evaluation would want me to do it. Luckily it’s not.

People will make their content accessible for machines rather than disabled people. Fact. @puresick https://social.hnnng.space/@puresick/115416350935989514

“We created [easy] WCAG so that people don’t need to figure out what 1.4.3 Contrast Minimum actually means.” First sentence in that resource: “Text contrast against its background must be at least 4.5:1 for normal text, or 3:1 for large text (over 24px, or bold and over 19px).” Do you know […]