The personal portfolio site of Creative Developer Bryn Newell
Bluesky has one of my favorite settings I've seen on a website in a long while ~ you can require alt text on an image before posting. It's such a beautiful little form of self governance, to show you care about accessibility, while acknowledging that, hey, sometimes we all forget to add it when we get excited about Good Content™️ for the internet. Now I could go in depth about the reasons why alt…
i don’t want to follow the the intangible numbers of economics. i want to twist my fingers up in blades of grass and feel the way the clouds change the shadows and luminance of the sun as they move behind my closed eyelids ☼
* a heads up - I have a bit of a sailor’s mouth (by corporate standards) and have opted to not censor myself anymore. If you’d like the censored version you can click here. “Oh no it’s time to redesign my website again isn’t it?” The running joke that every technologist knows the plague of well, especially when anyone in your circle starts posting about their re-launch. This thought had just…
I today I realized not everything is brown. if you look not glance the foothills are sage just the kind that’s still being kept a secret II "everything is dead, it’s nothing but a sheet of grey" but that’s not strictly true is it? the scrub brush is whispering about the undertones of moss and their cerulean veins are waiting to be scratched free of its warm, dusty bark III one of the best parts…
I I didn’t come up with heading west it doesn’t belong to me just like the colorado state lines certainly don’t belong to us. lines that were made up and land that was squandered when realizing how precious it is. doubling a population with a tuberculosis diagnosis. but I don’t think it’s the lungs the mountain air cures, I think it’s the mind. II my mind is a slide show, moving too fast to pick…
It’s not. Just learn it. The end. Just kidding. That’s not very empathetic of me... But seriously, this is a request to please give accessibility like 5% more of your attention. I know you care about other people and you care about your content reaching as many others as possible. On top of that, I truly believe this is a part of your job, whatever type of web related work you do, so let’s learn…
My story is one you may have heard a few times — I went to school to study one thing, started doing that thing, stopped doing that thing, became motivated to learn how to code, stopped doing the first thing, and then went searching for a place that could teach me how to do the new thing (coding) instead. Now here I am in the midst of it all, still learning and starting out my shiny new career path…