Andy Rush

@andyrush
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Course Media Developer for the Center for Instruction and Research Technology (CIRT) at the University of North Florida. I work with UNF faculty to develop and produce course media. I’ve been working in the Educational Technology field for over 30 years. #fedi22 #video #wordpress
websitehttps://andheblogs.andyrush.net
LocationJacksonville, FL USA
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Andy Rush5h ago
AndHeSocial5h ago
MackBook Neo One Month Review

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTazSvamxhU

| https://social.andyrush.net/mackbook-neo-one-month-review/
MackBook Neo One Month Review

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Andy Rush23h ago
AndHeSocial23h ago
Burn ban in effect for Duval County

Jacksonville is experiencing its driest conditions since 1872.

| https://social.andyrush.net/burn-ban-in-effect-for-duval-county/
Burn ban in effect for Duval County – AndHeSocial

Andy Rush1d ago
AndHeSocial1d ago
Another Thank You, Matthias

An update to the ActivityPub plugin for WordPress has a feature to add a Fediverse “reaction” to a post – Like, Repost, or Quote buttons make it easy. So go ahead, view it and react!

Many, many thanks, @pfefferle and team!

| https://social.andyrush.net/another-thank-you-matthias/
Another Thank You, Matthias – AndHeSocial

Andy Rush1d ago
Prof. Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️1d ago
Substack is proud of hosting serial rapist Andrew Tate. Why is anyone who's not a Nazi still on there? Why? I can sort of understand the "I can't give up X/FB/IG because that's where all my people are" argument, but Substack literally just hosts blogs/newsletters. You can go anywhere. You can switch to Ghost.
Andy Rush2d ago
Jon Henshaw2d ago

Strange paragraph about Threads and the fediverse:

“Threads is also the largest platform running on the ActivityPub protocol, allowing users to share posts to Mastodon, WordPress, and other fediverse-compatible services. Meta says it has interacted with over 75% of all fediverse servers, though full account portability is not yet available.”

It doesn’t “run” on ActivityPub and its integration with the fediverse is stifled, at best.

https://thenextweb.com/news/threads-website-redesign-direct-messages-desktop

Threads is redesigning its website and finally adding direct messages to the desktop

Summary: Threads head Connor Hayes previewed a redesigned web interface that adds direct messages, a navigation sidebar with shortcuts to saved posts and insights, and a cleaner single-feed layout replacing the current multi-column design. DMs, which launched on mobile in June 2025, will roll out on web “over the coming weeks,” bringing one-on-one chats, group […]

The Next Web
Andy Rush2d ago
Doug Holton2d ago
The DOJ has delayed its accessibility deadline (April 24) by one year (2027): https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/04/20/2026-07663/extension-of-compliance-dates-for-nondiscrimination-on-the-basis-of-disability-accessibility-of-web
In other news, the free PAVE tool for fixing PDF accessibility has been upgraded to 2.0. It can still be very time-consuming and complex to fix a single PDF, however. You have to fix all the regions, fix the reading order, etc. of every single page: https://pave-pdf.org/
Open weight LLM AI PDF OCR models are improving: https://huggingface.co/spaces?category=ocr&sort=trending
#accessibility #a11y
Federal Register :: Request Access

Andy Rush2d ago
Everybody needs a Peace Lily.
Andy Rush5d ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@SouthDakota/116420985698579540

Wow, this is good…

Andy Rush6d ago
I’m calling it now - the new foldable iPhone will be called the iPhone Duo.
Andy RushApr 14
Here's the start of the relevant part of the video…https://www.youtube.com/live/RQP06snnWOY?si=-SrmM4091ilU6rNm&t=6979
NAB 2026 Update!

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