are the tesla shareholders ok?

off to Kobe for #W3CTPAC

I think we do a okay job of assessing which newly designed features to prioritise (if you haven't already, check out interop-rank.jakearchibald.com). What I'm interested in is the problems _without_ proposed solutions. What are you working on where you just can't find even a proposal for?

Calling all web developers! Browsers are all meeting up next week (www.w3.org/events/tpac/...). I want your voice to be heard! Tell me your biggest problems, and tell me what you want to see from the platform. What problems are tough to solve, but could be easier?

Kassa Overall at Bird was brilliant, his new album has 8 jazz interpretations of classic hiphop tracks. #CheckTheRhyme

Emma Thompson is “intensely irritated” with AI. “[Word] is constantly saying, ‘Would you like me to rewrite that for you?’ And so I end up just going, ‘I don’t need you to fucking rewrite what I’ve just written! Will you fuck off? Just fuck off! I’m so annoyed.’” www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

off to Utrecht for the “Measuring the (un)sustainability of AI” symposium www.uu.nl/en/events/gd...

Meta was ordered by a a Dutch court to offer a non-algorithmic timeline option, and they just got an extension as they claimed they couldn't do it within 2 weeks for tech reasons.

I appreciate Hidde’s ability to take preposterous claims by a major accessibility tooling maker and the rampant thievery of IP by LLM makers, consider their dehumanizing output, and propose this gentle, whisper-soft rebuke: hidde.blog/teaching-llm...

Belgian AI scientists are advocating *against* the use of AI in academia. “If independent thinking is no longer encouraged at university, where would it?” apache.be/2025/10/24/b...

too accurate representation of airport security youtu.be/soO9baCk5lY?...

✏️ Yes, let's teach LLMs accessibility, but also provide the companies using them with better strategies hidde.blog/teaching-llm... (longest post title I ever did, EVER)

‘Screensavers’ is so apt because all ai art/text/music does is occupy space. And we tricked ourselves into thinking all space should be occupied. We don’t need background music in a store. Your blog post is fine without an image too. A news item of one human sentence is better than ai paragraphs.

I had fun talking about "the AI puppet dance" at @hellostavanger.no today. Thanks to everyone who showed up! Slides are here: einarwh.github.io/slides/2025/...

When the AI marketing speak gets you to rage blog some notes about browser innovation blog.stephaniestimac.com/posts/2025/1...

Thanks #HelloStavanger for having me talk about creativity, art and AI! 🖼️ My slides and all the links talks.hiddedevries.nl/KrPudu/creat... ✍️ Full read along with slides: talks.hiddedevries.nl/dFZf3b/slides

At #HelloStavanger, Marianne Røsvik presented Designsystemet, the Norwegian government's design system designsystemet.no/en/

Stavanger has good rainbows

Yay, got “Deliberate misinformation or misinformation resulting from negligence, including responding with unchecked output from automated systems“ merged into W3C's Code of Conduct github.com/w3c/PWETF/pu... Feel free to adapt for your codes of conducts, to increase productivity in your community.

🇳🇴 Off to Stavanger to talk about creativity and whether computers can do it! #HelloStavanger

“the response I got was… lukewarm”—Tim Berners-Lee on when he reached out to the hypertext community to tell them about the WWW project (from: This is for everyone)

I have read a lot about generative AI the last couple of years, a lot of it very good, but this is one of the best and most articulate elucidations of why there are so many things about it that fundamentally don't sit right with me. an absolute banger of a post, I implore you to read it posthaste

✏️ Do LLMs save or waste time? Ha! Turns out, sometimes it's both: when one person saves a bit, while another loses. I wrote a blog post about this phenomenon, with examples and mitigating business strategies! hidde.blog/time-saving-...

I wrote about AI art and why I philosophically refuse to use generative AI regardless of its potential utility, but it's actually about mortality and authoritarianism and book clubs and Bowling Alone. (I resisted an extended metaphor about curling, you're welcome / I'm sorry.)

“Don’t do a migration just because you don’t like someone else’s technology choices.” - Sophie Koonin @localghost.dev shared her lessons learned from a large-scale TypeScript migration at @monzo.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1Bq...

Firefox now supports view transitions, the command and commandfor HTML attributes, and the moveBefore() method. www.firefox.com/en-US/firefo...

🔗 AI dehumanises us, part 82: dating apps: “I’d already been ChatGPT-ed into bed at least once. I didn’t want it to happen again.” (From: www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...)

and yes I was wearing a tshirt of one of Bristol's nicest IPAs why

Sometimes, the right use of ARIA can improve your UI for end users. 🎥 Watch @hidde.blog's excellent talk on both the good parts and common pitfalls of ARIA, delivered at Pixel Pioneers Bristol 2025: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuTh... #throwbackthursday #tbthursday #a11y #accessibility

In today’s brand new episode of #SystemsOfHarm I chat to accessibility specialist @tink.uk about how design systems can help us create more accessible UX, how to advocate for our disabled product users, and whether AI will help or hinder us in the process Apple: apple.co/4nAMX6K RSS: bit.ly/43gtLkB

That the EU is often more business than ideals oriented, was illustrated once more today. The Parliament voted to ban words like ‘burger’ and ‘sausage’ when no ‘edible parts of animals’ are involved, because it would ‘misinform’ consumers. Absurd! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/b...

WCAG-EM 2.0, a process to evaluate accessibility, is coming! We (me, @stevefaulkner.bsky.social and Jeroen) are updating it to: - make the scope broader (from “websites” to any digital product) - make it more readable - bring it up to date (mentions design systems now) w3c.github.io/wai-wcag-em/

Little Simz in Amsterdam was superb last night. The lyrics, the energy, the band, a Drop 7 DJ set mid way… all really good. I still can't name one time she didn't delivaaa! (see Gorilla www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc7i... )

This week I worked through dozens of WCAG 3 guidelines, requirements and assertions and it is leaving me optimistic that we can deliver on making it much easier to use and understand.

A great write-up by @hidde.blog about the creativity in the generation of AI. Great extension of his brilliant talk "Creativity Cannot Be Computed." “The writer, the text and the audience”: hidde.blog/connection-c... “Creativity Cannot Be Computed” on YouTube: youtu.be/WqNgGmmwj7U

🚂 off to Bristol for the WCAG editor's work week I'll refrain from commenting on people's phone calls today

✏️ Another AI reading list: these books are worth your time hidde.blog/another-ai-r... nobody: me: wrote down 5 (actually 6) books about AI that I read this year and recommend

Made friends in the parents' WhatsApp group (😔) by sharing how to get the school's calendar as Webcal. People may not want fancy tech, they just want to see home/school/work calendars in one app through simple web tech.

Dutch train station info screens are going to switch to dark mode to “save energy” and “improve readability” tweakers.net/geek/239444/...

- "How I used 11ty to power a world-class museum's digital infrastructure" - 11ty Meetup at 12:00PM UTC, Oct 15 (11tymeetup.dev) Also this is the best opengraph image I've ever seen, no notes

I am re-entering the world of speaking after a 3(!) year long break! If you're interested You can catch me at: - "Audiom: Building inclusive maps as the token sighted developer" - Inclusive Design 24 at 4:00am UTC, 25 Sep(inclusivedesign24.org/2025/schedule/) apologies to the euro buddies! (cont.)

✏️ The politics of AI: we'll need more sustainability, community and democracy some of my notes from “The politics of AI”, earlier this week at Goldsmiths hidde.blog/ai-politics?...

✏️ The politics of AI: we'll need more sustainability, community and democracy some of my notes from “The politics of AI”, earlier this week at Goldsmiths hidde.blog/ai-politics?...

✏️ New post: The writer, the text and the audience hidde.blog/connection-c...

enjoyed this sign on the exit door of a cinema I visited this week

a few takeaways: - Musk is serious about building a software competitor to Microsoft, called Macrohard - Grok has about 64 million monthly active users - Musk's efforts to make Grok less woke & more popular triggered the 'white genocide' and MechaHitler incidents - some employees quit over sexbots

people who pop into the Eurostar to immediately jump loudly onto an important business call: please don't (Kind regards, everyone else)

off to London for the Critical Infrastructure Lab's (www.criticalinfralab.net) symposium on the Politics of AI.

off to Amsterdam to talk about standards to students of the University of Applied Science, who are learning about accessibility this semester 🚆

Moved hidde.blog off Netlify, onto statichost.eu, a service that is not bloated, privacy-friendly, sustainable and EU-hosted. And has much less pushing of (AI) features that I find unnecessary.