An article I wrote about how to make LLM chat experiences more accessible was published late last week, and I'm really proud of how it turned out. These techniques shouldn't be proprietary information, so I genericized it and gave it away for free 😈

Kind of related, it was cool to see ACCESSIBILITY.md being proposed as part of some EU procurement infrastructure. It feels like my hope for this effort is starting to slowly get off the ground.

If you love a website, back it up
"This story starts with a little tragedy."

your vibecoded website looks bad
Exactly this. I see a site that looks like this and my eyeballs reflexively bounce off it.

Actually, Democrats Don’t Have to Sacrifice Trans People or Immigrants to Win
Good-ass title.

I am not a developer or an accessibility specialist. Hire me?
A) Hire Heydon, he's a bonna fide genius.
B) I will probably write about this at some point, but so much of my career has been figuring out ways to escape the box I'm put in and show how much I know about the platform.

BuzzFeed Stock in Free Fall as Pivot to AI Blows Up in Its Face
Wompers.

Republicans Learn X Is the Echo Chamber
I'll never forgive Elon for a ton of things, but ruining Twitter is one of them. And so: lol, lmao.

I made a film in Excel
Delivers what it promises.

How To Quit Spotify And Improve Your Life In The Process
"It's extremely easy to get off Spotify while keeping your library intact, and you don't owe that company shit. What are you waiting for."

Meteorwrongs
I love that there's a term for this!

The Slopnami is an accessibility problem
Soren's great, and I always learn something new when they publish something.

How one US city cut its infant mortality rate by half
We keep learning that giving people money without hoops to jump through helps them, and keep not wanting to acknowledge learning that.

Democrats Win Enough Seats Nationwide to End Electoral College
🤞🤞🤞

Swipeblocked
I'm super-curious who decides what goes on here, and then who else signs off on it.

There Is No Place In A Functional Society For Elon Musk
"As things stand, he is, in literal and fundamental terms, incompatible with a functional and functioning society."

Measles, mumps and misinformation: how Crunchy Moms became ‘the most dangerous’ group on Facebook
And speaking of things that should be broken on the wheel.

Labs Suck
"Labs conceal the humans that compose them."

Developer ends lucrative screensaver deal with Roku because Fox bought it
Hell yeah, buddy.

Tampopo is Closed.
I loved this restaurant when it was open. What a lovely surprise to discover this tribute (and the salad dressing recipe).

Are thirst traps the ultimate self-portrait?
Holy shit, what a great left-field take.

Life on the Uncanny Precipice
So that's the name of the feeling.

Assistive Technology Market Size & Usage Statistics
"Assistive technology usage statistics point to a population that’s large, growing, and increasingly reliant on digital tools rather than physical devices alone. "

The Soviets Drilled the Deepest Hole Ever
[your mom joke]

Fold Epic Paper Airplanes.
Gonna try making the Double Take after sending this.

Running web sites makes me not want to
I feel this.

Who are we willing to exclude?
While I love this idea, in the practical it starts to creep back in when stakeholders are less involved after kickoff. Something to think on.

The Web We Know Is Going to Disappear
"That is a very different Web. It is not the Web I grew up with."

WikiPop!
Emails you the most popular Wikipedia page the day before, plus a random one to spice it up.

Take Back Your YouTube Feed
Nice.

Ram-Altman
ugly chuckle

Children of Men: The Future Is a Mirror for the Present
I really enjoyed this movie, and apparently other people did too.

'Reverse Engineer Anything': AI Companies Crack Down on the Coolest Thing People Were Doing With AI
Your regular reminder they can and do actively regulate this tech, just the way we want them to.

An Open Letter To Those People Wondering Why I’m Still Treating Them Differently Now That The Election Is Over.
"You have shown that you are not safe to be around."

Computing with CSS Layout
holy shit

Making a Website in 2026
I know I've touched on this before, but the black box nature of these providers is existentially dangerous as fuck.

The Wealth Inequality Graph
I need to start leaving printed copies of this here and there.