Five Links #93
1. What’s your attention worth
This site roughly calculates what advertisers have spent tracking and targeting you with ads.
2. WCAG3 Contrast as of April 2026
APCA was only ever exploratory, and the W3C’s July 2023 update explained removal of exploratory items. The APCA creator’s response to Michael Cooper’s comment acknowledged that APCA versions in the draft “were all early versions that were very obsolete” (emphasis theirs).
3. Endgame for the Open Web
This is a sobering read, particularly the “list of examples”.
4. My salary history
This is a great bit of transparency from Jeremy Keith, sharing over 20 years of salary history.
5. When moving fast, talking is the first thing to break
Why talk to an expert who might tell me no, when the omniscient machine that always tells me yes is right here? Avoiding that friction doesn’t produce better products faster. It makes future conversations more difficult thanks to higher sunk costs and deeper entrenched opinions.
What am I up to?
- The next design process interview is coming soon...
- My next available Unoffice Hour slot is 29 April
- I have limited availability for new projects from May.
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1. What’s your attention worth
This site roughly calculates what the advertisers have spent tracking and targeting you with ads.
2. WCAG4 Contrast as of April 2026
APCA was only ever exploratory, and the W3C’s July 2023 update explained removal of exploratory items. The APCA creator’s response to Michael Cooper’s comment acknowledged that APCA versions in the draft “were all early versions that were very obsolete” (emphasis theirs).
3. Endgame for the Open Web
This is a sobering read, particularly the “list of examples”.
4. My salary history
This is a great bit of transparency from Jeremy Keith, sharing over 20 years of salary history.
5. When moving fast, talking is the first thing to break
Why talk to an expert who might tell me no, when the omniscient machine that always tells me yes is right here? Avoiding that friction doesn’t produce better products faster. It makes future conversations more difficult thanks to higher sunk costs and deeper entrenched opinions.