I design. I develop. I do lots of things in between.
A fragment of Michael Stipe s speech (from 12 years ago!) for Nirvana s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction that s stuck with me for some time: Nirvana captured lightning in a bottle. And now, per the dictionary—off the Internet—in defining “lightning in a bottle” as, “Capturing something powerful and elusive, and then being able to [ ]
A little nuance I ran into. Say you have a regular ol image: Cool. Now say you want to link that image somewhere: Double cool. But now I want unsighted visitors to know where that link goes. I suppose I could do the classic visually-hidden text thing to announce it without visually presenting it. That [ ]
Remember when Tim Cook bragged back in 2010 that Apple s superior product design was a result of laser-sharp focus on a smaller number of products, only enough to fit on one table? That makes today s MacRumors headline a little laughable: or alarming for those who care. Which is something I ain t resembling much in recent [ ]
I recently nitpicked the WordPress UX for adding alternative text to images. It s a little clunky, for sure, but not really a big ol deal in the grand scheme of things. That post came a day before I updated to WordPress 7.0. Now I have another nitpick about images because they changed the freaking interface! [ ]
This isn t a post on AI (thank God). It also isn t really a post about tech. Well, it sorta is, but tangential to tech in the sense that I ve come to a resting conclusion that what we typically call tech isn t really tech at all. It s also a rant, so I won t be offended if [ ]
You know that you can drag and drop an image directly into the WordPress Block Editor. And you know it s a really, really good idea to put alt text on it because screen readers and other assistive tech. So, you type (or apparently you generate) the alt text in the image s block settings: Yay, an [ ]
I really thought I d slow down on recording after I released Covers, but that hasn t been the case at all. Not sure how or when it happened, but I already have a nice large batch of songs. Who knows, I may even release that too. The thing is that I m always trying to get better [ ]