I wrote about how to create faux-nested interactive controls that are accessible, plus a few tangents about things like accessible name length and progressive enhancement. You know, technology that helps people, yet doesn't get you promotions 🙃

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Delivers what it promises.

How to downgrade macOS update: Rollback Tahoe to Sequoia
Liquid Glass is so bad that even Macworld is telling you how to get away from it.

White-collar workers shouldn’t dismiss a blue-collar career change
To quote a friend: Working a trade is racing the clock to burn your body to make enough money to retire on, while working in tech is racing the clock to burn your brain to make enough money to retire on.

Blocking entire countries because of scrapers
Dayum.

Stack Overflow in freefall: 78 percent drop in number of questions
You gotta tend your garden, or weeds grow and everything dies.

Publishers are “stepping back” from LGBTQ+ books amid bans & the current GOP president
Cowards.

Ian's Shoelace Site Is Still The Best Site For Tying Your Shoes
"What is the point of adding value to the internet if it is only going to rob you?"

Tech Workers Are Condemning ICE Even as Their CEOs Stay Quiet
Calling the "tech sector’s response to sociopolitical crises over the past several years" a "mixed bag" sure is, uh, a way to phrase it.

Beyond Parity: The Case for True Accessibility Affordances
This is something that, on a good day, I get to help do at my job.

We should all be Luddites
"If we turn the intellectual development of the next generation over to opaque, probabilistic engines trained on a slurry of scraped content, with little transparency and even less accountability, we are not enhancing education; we are commodifying it, corporatizing it, and replacing pedagogy with productivity."

Why Federated Design Systems Keep Failing
Sharing as a subtweet.

The Worst Thing About Elon Musk Is That He Got Away With All of It
Headline says it all.

Lies, damn lies and metrics
The map is not the territory, folks.

Fonts for a progressive future.
God, I love a good type project.

Amiga Pointer Archive
Let me just say, it gets to the point.

An Unfolding Scientific Revolution in Cosmology
:psyduck-emoji:

We are living in a time of polycrisis. If you feel trapped – you’re not alone
"The lack of predictability creates more doubt about the future, which blocks our ability to imagine ourselves in it."

Buster: Captcha Solver for Humans
More ammo for getting rid of Captchas.

Should HTML's code blocks be translated?
"In some contexts yes, in others no!"

Americans Are the Ones Paying for Tariffs, Study Finds
Who could have forseen, etc.

Bank of England 'must plan for a financial crisis triggered by aliens'
I want to believe.

The Incredible Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button
We have officially lost the plot.

Prediction: Microsoft Is Going To Do The Funniest Thing Imaginable
I think it's not too far-fetched. There's increasingly fewer and fewer reasons to use Windows.

A Social Filesystem
Neat!

Mark Carney Warns “American Hegemony” Is Destroying World Order in Candid Speech
“This is not sovereignty. It is the performance of sovereignty while accepting subordination.” [Full transcript]

CEOs say AI is making work more efficient. Employees tell a different story.
Shot, and chaser.

The Forgotten Designer Who Created America’s First National Parks Posters
I love this.

Is Educational Technology All It's Cracked Up to Be?
"I don’t know what school was like before all of these tools, but I don’t necessarily feel like any of them really help me learn."

Wikipedia volunteers spent years cataloging AI tells. Now there’s a plugin to avoid them.
Christ.

These Portuguese Libraries Are Infested With Bats—and They Like It That Way
Good job, bats!