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.

New stickers! thanks @rknight.me

First music venue in the Netherlands to ban camera glasses because they found dudes filming women with them. nos.nl/artikel/2582... I'd say we need a ban. (A ban that includes a very clear exception for usage as assistive tech, see Leonie's post for reference tink.uk/using-ray-ba...)

“In practice, AI acts as an epistemic power grab that conceals politics and ideology under its machinic opacity” — @danmcquillan.bsky.social in “Resisting AI”

TIL that WCAG 2 uses @11ty.dev as a build tool and has for over a year (used XSLT before) github.com/w3c/wcag

added Into The Great Wide Open gigs to my live music log, and a feature that allows to say “on” a location instead of “in”, because islands log.hidde.blog/live-music/

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

The next update for the WCAG 3 draft is here, the article is a few thoughts from the chairs, and links to the draft and the WCAG 3 Introduction. #accessibility #a11y #wcag3 whollyaccessible.org/2025/09/04/w...

I love how some artists stick to their policy of releasing albums that exclusively contain bangers.

Good definition of solutionism in @danmcquillan.bsky.social's “Resisting AI”: “technical fixes that cover up underlying structural unfairness”

love how easy it is to add fonts to Kobo's ereaders. Currently trying out Libre Baskerville. tips for affordable and good reading fonts welcomed

Noname at Paradiso Noord

🔗 ‘when possible, "measure" rather than "estimate"’, @fershad.com says on website carbon emission figures fershad.com/notes/scepti...

sorry i am on a bit of conformance focused blogging roll lately

✏️ Can components conform to WCAG? hidde.blog/component-co... wrote up some thoughts around claiming conformance about a design system component. Curious to hear what people think

✏️ Conformance vs compliance, accessibility standards edition hidde.blog/compliance-c... (as a non native speaker I needed to look this up way too often, so I created a post for future reference)

the departing GitHub CEO thinks all those force-feeding-AI features devs complain about are the ‘greatest change to software development since the advent of the personal computer’ github.blog/news-insight... the excellent + reliable progressive enhancement UIs they used to have impressed much more

My website is for humans, and I don't want Google's AI ramen localghost.dev/blog/this-we...

✏️ New blog post: We should listen to the philosophers more hidde.blog/philosophers/

PhD level expertise or knowledge isn't a thing. What does Open AI mean when they say use this phrase?

it's so aggravating how the evangelists both revere the status of formal education in a classist way, and don't actually understand that people with experience in any field (regardless of formal education) all are that way not because they posture, but because they are discerning and vet information

Big tech companies, man

The W3C i18n group put out “Address formats around the world” for review w3c.github.io/i18n-drafts/...

📺 Video of my talk ‘Built-in accessibility: blessing or curse?’ from JS Heroes is out! youtu.be/GvYz9Qfy8j4?... TLDW: yes it's good to try and build in accessibility, but be careful not to overpromise. It's not trivial or a one off, but it is worthwhile!

🔗 “I think we’ve barely scratched the surface of AI as intellectual partner and tool for thought. (…) It’s a problem I need to work on in some form.” — @maggieappleton.com (From: A Treatise on AI Chatbots Undermining the Enlightenment maggieappleton.com/ai-enlighten...)

Sad to hear that Margaret Boden, pioneer in cognitive science and artificial intelligence, has passed away. Just a few days ago, someone reactivated the post below. I warmly recommend watching the video. Thank you Margaret for founding and shaping our field. www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...

we went for a walk in the Alps, and met this guy on the road

brb is a good name for a train company

I write this comment almost a decade ago at a previous job. apparently this code is still kicking because someone just sent me this screenshot after they inherited this project 😆

"When we humanise machines, we help the billionaires." The sand does not, in fact, think. Here's @hidde.blog warning us on how to prevent hyping up harmful technologies. hidde.blog/ai-hype/

✍️ New post: How to avoid your post about AI helps the hype hidde.blog/ai-hype/

🔗 “I keep thinking about how super wealth makes you lose getting to hear no like a normal person when I see multi-millionaires and billionaires talk about how they use LLMs.” — @tante.cc tante.cc/2025/07/17/n...

These are now part of the glossary update, which will be merged soon. github.com/w3c/wcag3/pu...

🔗 “Women, non-binary, intersex and trans folk are in tech, have always been in tech, [but they] are often discriminated against and overlooked. [Men] can lead the change in how men represent themselves and their gender as a whole in the industry.“—@whitep4nth3r.com whitep4nth3r.com/blog/why-wom...

A while ago, I posted about “views”, a new definition we've been working on. Good news, we resolved on using a specific definition (draft). Updated my post to explain: hidde.blog/views/#headi... thanks to all who chimed in, and specifically the efforts of co-chair @alastairc.uk to make this happen

“why I’m hoping and praying with every fiber of my being that we will get the ARIA Notify API across all browsers at some point in the future” — Nic Chan www.nicchan.me/blog/please-...

a couple of hours before my keynote, I went through an intense negotiation with the organisers (for over a hour) where we went through my slides and had to remove anything that mentions 'Palestine' 'Israel' and replace 'genocide' with 'war crimes' 1/

🔗 “AI for Good” forced Abeba Birhane to remove any mention of Gaza and genocide. “what ‘good’ means [gets to be] shaped, defined, and actively curated by the tech industry that inherently holds invested interest in societal uptake of AI regardless of its risk or harm” aial.ie/blog/2025-ai...