1. Drawers

I’ve been a long-time MacOS Stage Manager user. I was drawn to it by the idea of grouping windows by project, but it doesn’t quite work like that out of the box, and it’s not particularly configurable. Drawers looks like an interesting alternative.

2. Common misconceptions about testing accessibility

Testing for accessibility is often misunderstood. Teams either overestimate what tools can do, underestimate their own role, or assume testing is something that happens once only, at completion of the development process.

3. taken

Before you (seemingly) do anything, what can a web page learn about you?

4. Google’s Prompt API

So, in short: you now have an LLM running on your machine, and any website you visit can make use of it, and whatever processing resources it requires. Google — a company that has paid billions of dollars in settlements for lawsuits related to privacy violations and deceptive practices in data collection — has said not to worry about it.

5. This is all there is

What if I’m on my way to see my dying grandmother and I miss my bus because of this app? I can’t be with her in her final moments and tell her that I love her one last time.

We have to realise that a bus information app is not a bus information app: it is an object that affects and alters people’s lives: either for better or for worse.

What am I up to?

• My next available Unoffice Hour slot is 27 May
• I have limited availability for new projects from June.

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