SuperGeekery: A blog probably of interest only to nerds by John F Morton.

A blog prob­a­bly of inter­est only to nerds by John F Mor­ton.

Link List

Wel­come to my link library. These are not links to con­tent I have cre­at­ed unless you see that men­tioned in the link’s descrip­tion. These are links I found inter­est­ing enough to want to keep track of. If you read Craft Link List, the Craft CMS newslet­ter I used to write, this page is a replace­ment of sorts for that exer­cise. Enough talk. Let’s hit the links.

09Feb2023

How to Meet WCAG (Quickref Reference)

A quick cus­tomiz­able ref­er­ence to Web Con­tent Acces­si­bil­i­ty Guide­lines (WCAG) 2 require­ments (suc­cess cri­te­ria) and tech­niques.

09Feb2023

Browsing with assistive technology videos

Under­stand­ing how peo­ple with dis­abil­i­ties browse the web using assis­tive tech­nolo­gies (AT) is core to mak­ing acces­si­ble a good user expe­ri­ence. This brows­ing with assis­tive tech­nol­o­gy video series intro­duces com­mon­ly used soft­ware, how it works, and ways peo­ple nav­i­gate con­tent.

09Feb2023

Prime Voice AI

Gen­er­ate top-qual­i­ty spo­ken audio in any voice and style with the most advanced and mul­ti­pur­pose AI speech tool.” I’ve tried out this ser­vice. I think it’s pret­ty expen­sive, but the results are impres­sive.

02Feb2023

Trigger.dev

✨ Trigger.dev is an open-source plat­form that allows devel­op­ers to cre­ate event-dri­ven back­ground tasks direct­ly in their code.

01Feb2023

Defined Networking

Neb­u­la Over­lay Net­works: Extend net­work access with on-demand, encrypt­ed tun­nels between any hosts on any net­work. Defined Net­work­ing is the com­pa­ny behind the Neb­u­la open-source project.

29Jan2023

Permission Slip by CR

An app from Con­sumer Reports that helps auto­mate opt­ing out of data-shar­ing from a wide vari­ety of com­pa­nies.

23Jan2023

The Digital Workplace Is Designed to Bring You Down - The New York Times

Dig­i­tal the­o­rist Cal New­port is argu­ing for a new way to work. I like his idea of slow pro­duc­tiv­i­ty: What I’ve iden­ti­fied is three prin­ci­ples: doing few­er things, work­ing at a nat­ur­al pace, but obsess­ing over qual­i­ty. That trio of prop­er­ties bet­ter hits the sweet spot of how we’re actu­al­ly wired and pro­duces valu­able mean­ing­ful work, but it’s sus­tain­able.”