Why in the world does every store, every service, every organization need an "app"?

What is wrong with having a decent, functioning website?

I do not want to read, buy, organize and research things in an "app". I want websites. I mean, why do we have those big screens, right?

I hate, hate, HATE apps. I hate having to use my phone.

Why is everyone trying to make me use a tiny screen, a crappy "keyboard" with minuscule keys, and insists that is progress?

#Internet
#Websites
#Apps

RE: https://mastodon.social/@grooovinger/116148263894460665

Fantastic post by my friend Martin! You can feel just how much work, confusion, and frustration went into the research. 😁

A couple of months ago a family friend had a very serious health issue and he couldn't move or speak much. So I put together a web app with a set of phrases, connected to a game controller, in a way that he could just select phrases from the list to communicate. Luckily this person got better quickly, and this app was no longer needed, but I decided to improve this experiment and publish it as an Open Source project.

So, this is VoxEase. It can be operated with a mouse, a touch screen, a computer keyboard, a game controller using a single hand, or you can set it to scan the list of phrases automatically so you only need to press one button to pick your phrase.
It only requires a modern browser and once downloaded it works offline.
It supports multiple languages and it can also be used by people with sight impairments (it works with screen readers).

Any suggestions on how to make it better are welcome!

Link: https://turisc.github.io/voxease/

#openSource

💮 Lleva la esperanza contigo.
Pero no esa esperanza de color de rosa que te venden por ahí, sino la de verdad, la que te sirve de ancla cuando no entiendes por dónde vas o cuando cada paso te cuesta la vida.

Tener esperanza no es ser una ilusa que niega que la realidad está siendo un asco.
Es, simplemente, tener los arrestos de creer que esto no es el final de tu historia.
Es confiar en que tienes más aguante que el problema que tienes delante, aunque hoy te sientas pequeña.
Estás donde tienes que estar para aprender a llegar a donde quieres, te guste o no.

Aún falta gente por conocer, momentos que te van a volar la cabeza, risas de esas que duelen y proyectos que sí van a salir.
Habrá días en los que mirarás atrás y te darás gracias a ti misma por no haber mandado todo a la mierda.

No estás atrapada en un callejón sin salida, estás en pleno proceso de reconstrucción.
Y a veces, la esperanza no es esa meta brillante que ves a lo lejos; es el suelo que te sostiene mientras consigues llegar.

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#esperanza #realidad #resiliencia #masto #procesos #honestidad #psicologia #sinceridad #saludmental #noestassola

Here's what I've learned about generating accessible PDFs with LaTeX! ...especially for any American academics at public universities whose materials need to meet accessibility requirements starting April 24, 2026. :)

https://www.carloangiuli.com/pages/accessible-latex.html

No one:

Absolutely no one:

Random accessibility ‘expert’ on LinkedIn: 🚀 You can’t spell Aria without AI—the picture shows a robot at a computer! 🤗 ✨

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