@hdv

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Web dev/#a11y nerd. DevRel @sanity_io. @OpenUICG participant (ex W3C, Mozilla, NL gov). Tweets on the web, standards, design, ethics, components, JS, books.
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Bloghttps://hidde.blog
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“[we] converted the authoring format for MDN Web Docs - all 11,000 pages of it - from HTML to Markdown. In this post we'll talk about why we did it, how we did it, and how it turned out.” https://openwebdocs.org/content/posts/markdown-conversion/
MDN => Markdown

Open Web Docs supports web platform documentation for the benefit of web developers & designers worldwide. We are a community of web developers, standards makers, and technology companies that rely on this documentation as critical digital infrastructure, and we work cooperatively to ensure its long-term success and maintenance.

Open Web Docs
“As well as an exercise in humility and a lesson in how elite markers like blue ticks truly function, lots of real-life influential people now understand in their bones why platform concentration and monopoly is a terrible, terrible thing”—@[email protected] https://crookedtimber.org/2022/11/04/whither-twitter/
Twitter consequences; not just for little people

It’s been a week since Elon Musk, funded by a distasteful assortment of backers, bought Twitter. In no particular order, some thoughts on what it means for various groups. Employees Predictably, sw…

Crooked Timber
@zachleat nice! hope it goes well, want to try something similar
They started doing karaoke straight after I showed them the ins and outs of WCAG and its supporting documents, not sure what this means 😀
@vasilis ghehe I have a section on that

Twitter wasn’t successful because of great product decisions or the ingenuity of their management. It was successful because of the people who made the platform a place to connect, learn, joke around, and debate together. I got to know almost all of my friends in the web community through Twitter, because Twitter just happened to be the place where we all hung out.

Birds of a feather flock together. 💙

It isn’t where you are but who you’re with and what you do that matters.

Later today I will talk to the students of @vasilis and @[email protected] about accessibility standards and how to use them. Accessibility fediverse what is the thing you wish you knew about accessbility standards when you started out?
@fossheim I like it! But I have a blog category with the same name (badly chosen because I put almost everything in there :P)
Those of you building something to post ‘tweets’ on your own site first, have you settled on what to call them? I see ‘Notes’ used a lot.