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I have a lightning talk I deliver internally at my job. It is intentionally delivered to non-accessibility practitioners, so mainly engineers, designers, project managers, and product folk. The talk is about exploring macOS' Accessibility system …

Full article at https://zeroheight.com/blog/action-design-system-adoption/

I love that browsers are now shipping new CSS features that may not necessarily have been fully baked yet behind feature flags. I can’t actually pinpoint the exact date or event that started this, but …

The following is a guest post by Jai-Len Williams, a foreign law intern in the Global Legal Research Directorate of the Law Library of Congress. On July 1, 2024, category four Hurricane Beryl devastated the …

To prevent homelessness and improve housing stability, don’t cut funding for Tenant Services and Rental Assistance – double it. Mayor Bruce Harrell’s proposed 2025-2026 budget would slash funding for tenant services and rental assistance in …

The 1908 Hammacher Schlemmer catalog shown above included a nice selection of sharpening stones. The prices are fun to check out - an 8" Arkansas stone, for example, is listed for $9.80 (well over $300 …

by John Cook Conventionally it is accepted that Play for Today died forty years ago, in 1984. In the spring of that year, the recently appointed Head of BBC TV Plays, Peter Goodchild, decided to …

The release of the Lost Art Press “Make a Swedish Tool Chest with Whitney Miller” video course coincided with an expansion of my free time. And so, it was an easy decision to take this …

On the Eve of Valentines Day, I was sat scrolling Mastodon and a post from the @playdate account popped up on my Home Timeline to announce they had just shipped over 70,000 pre-orders of the …

We have two kayaks, which are stored outside on a large privacy wall in my backyard. When we first bought them, I bought two sets of standard kayak racks – and they worked, for a …

Finally the photographic “summer drought” is coming to an end and I’m struggling less with my monthly throwback to photos and events from 10 years ago! Here’s the October 2014 edition, with a few favorites …

An article I wrote for the Conversation on the release of the UN’s final report on governing AI for humanity. Read here

Perhaps I should be more emotional about this, but this will be my last blog post on Airbag. The time has come to make this domain more useful than where I share my thoughts and …

At this point we may have recorded all of the instrumental parts. I mean, we reserve the right to add a trombone here or a french horn there, maybe a synth part, etc., but for …

I’ve still been really busy. At some point, I’m going to have to update my résumé and LinkedIn. I was still able to publish two posts: Conditionally Display a Single Line of JavaScript in AEM …