Does anyone know if Bluesky is fully accessible on desktop (and does anyone have an invite)?
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If a social network isn't accessible via desktop, I won’t be on it. I don't have the hand strength for touchscreens (although Voice Control on iPhone has gotten pretty good lately).
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My wheelchair’s joystick is glitching out. Kinda worried it’s gonna die at any time.
In the Forbidden Arts section of the library there is a book about packaging and signing apps for the Mac App Store.
This one has been driving me mad for years. Clicking on modifier keys on the macOS Accessibility Keyboard would make this awful typewriter clunking sound.
How to make it stop:
- Go to System Settings > Accessibility > Keyboard.
- Click the little info icon next to Accessibility Keyboard
- Make sure Play sounds for key and dwell actions is off (it probably is already)
- Click Done, then click the info icon next to Sticky Keys.
- Turn off Beep when a modifier key is set.
You might be thinking, “But sticky keys isn’t even on!” To which I respond, yes that’s why it took me so long to find that setting and why I’m writing it down on the interwebs.
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Another caregiver interviewee ghosted me. Really hurts my faith in people. Ugh.
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I’m interviewing caregivers and they keep ghosting me. Why go through the trouble to apply and schedule an interview?
How it started/how it’s going, 2023 goals:
- Read 5 books (3/5)
- Write 5 blog articles (6/5!)
- Make one game (1/1)
- Keep a journal (C+)
- Make (or start) a new app for money (0/1)
- Be more social (C+)
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Blake Watson 3.8 released today. Once again it’s hacky, untested code with a lot of bugs that was YOLO’d into production.
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Finally getting around to adding print styles to my personal site. break-after: avoid is not avoiding tho. hmmmm
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Finished reading (well, listening to) We Are Legion (We Are Bob). Very cool book for space lovers. It’s a series, so I’ll probably be continuing on with it.
For years I’ve written a handful of blog articles a year. But a few months into 2023, I realized that I had written one blog article per month. I’ve been trying to keep that streak alive and it’s been fun!
During a four-day power outage I was confronted with how meaningless my work and hobbies are if there is no electricity to support them.
https://blakewatson.com/journal/the-fragile-nature-of-my-lifes-work/
Our dev team was recently tasked with standing up user docs sites for our suite of NASA apps. We used @eleventy and a classless CSS theme (https://holidaycss.js.org/) and it worked out great!
I love that it was quick to get started but also that 11ty is super flexible, should we need to add features later.
Does anyone still use the phrase “surf the web” and, if not, can we bring it back? Cool beans.
Also I think this is the first time I’ve ever used the word, “swimmingly.”
Seeing the Vision Pro demos, I’m wondering if the blurred glass look of the big iOS 7 redesign had VR/AR in mind at all or if it just happened to work out swimmingly.