Package Hero, a fun IOS idle game struggling with balance issues
Note: this article marks the first test of an entirely new publishing process for my blog. It's possible things are deeply, deeply broken. Sorry about that!
Sam's Stuff
This is the place where all of my, well, stuff will be collected.
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The Agent Solution I Actually Settled On
If AI is going to become a regular part of my workflow, I have a number of requirements for how it needs to work. Every single blind person has been burned by services locking down API's, making inaccessible updates, or just getting rid of functionality we depend on. In order to avoid history repeating itself, I want a system that is:
NVAccess and the slow Erosion of trust
Before we get started, some important disclaimers. First, these are (as with everything I write) my own opinions, not the opinions of the company where I work. Second, while I have developed a couple addons for NVDA, I am a hobbyist developer. While I was deeply involved in cryptocurrency and all of the operational security implications tied up in it for six years, I am not a professional security…
YubiKey And Screen Readers
Before we get into it, we should start with the basics for those who are unaware. What is a Yubikey, and why do you want one?
Openclaw Is More Fun to Fiddle With Than To Use
If you've never heard of Openclaw (formerly Moltbot, formerly Clawdbot), it's an open source AI tool that can actually do things in the real world. And sometimes, the things it does are actually the things you want it to do! Unfortunately, "sometimes" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence. Is Openclaw worth the massive hype it's received from people like Andrej Karpathy? I'll go over my…
The State of Modern AI Text To Speech Systems for Screen Reader Users
If you're not a screen reader user yourself, you might be surprised to learn that the text to speech technology used by most blind people hasn't changed in the last 30 years. While text to speech has taken the sighted world by storm, in everything from personal assistants to GPS to telephone systems, the voices used by blind folks have remained mostly static. This is largely intentional. The needs…
Fengshen Tale CONFERRED GODS
Fengshen Tale CONFERRED GODS is the first game I've played by Chinese mobile game developer Shanghai Huaxiao Information Technology Co. It's an accessible autobattler that's really similar to Call of Fate. But is it better?
A Review of Magical Artist, an Accessible Mobile Audio Game
Magical artist is the third game I've played developed by Prudence Interactive , a Chinese developer that specializes in developing mobile accessible audiogames. When I went into this one, I had high hopes. As I said in my review of Call Of Fate , a lot had been improved from the first game they released. So I hoped that Magical Artist would be even better, as they applied everything they'd…
Accessibility, the Origin of Innovation
Update: The Fable version of this material is now available here .
Correcting Years With NVDA and Espeak
I'm mostly documenting this for myself. I've been trying to switch away from eloquence for ages, with little success. One possibility is Espeak-ng , at least with NVDA on Windows, and on Android. Unfortunately, Espeak on IOS has a bunch of serious bugs, and hasn't been updated in forever.