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Brought home some #espresso beans. Pulled a shot on a Bambino Plus with default settings, then made a cappuccino on the same machine. Tomorrow I'll try with the Flair 58.
Thanks to @… for the lovely mug (it’s not blurry IRL).

Wow, I sure am glad we have such diversity in the CSS world and that AIs consider all of the options fairly, instead of hypothetically being hyper focused on any specific library.

Here's my #wrapstodon 2025. I guess #OpenSCAD was a topic for me. Nice feature, maybe it will inspire me to be a little more active at here at toot.community

@… @… 1!

> We find that AI use impairs conceptual understanding, code reading, and debugging abilities, without delivering significant efficiency gains on average.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.20245

#Satisfying

I forgot that I actually enjoy coding tests. Pulling apart a small problem, working through the algorithms, and building something that addresses a targeted problem is pretty fun

I’m supposed to do one of these but I’m on a plane and already amazed to be able to even post this at 34,000 feet somewhere south of Greenland. Also the notion of traveling again so soon is making my tummy womble.
https://bsky.app/profile/lflegal.bsky.social/post/3mg3yrbezn223…

Lainey Feingold (@lflegal.bsky.social)
Join us at the #CSUNATC conference next week! Tues: Digital #Accessibility Ethics Book MeetUp, Platinum Ballroom 3 at 5-6:00 pm Wed: Session about book with 5 authors 11:20 am -chk schedule Visit AccessibilityEthics [dot] org and please help us spread the word about these two gatherings.

Now the whole goal is to get them to match a fully discovered in-game map so that the location data I get from this can be used on the site to search and highlight locations later in the process. They have to be correct first, and some work out almost fine, while others do not. Going through https://wago.tools/db2/ h…

Rozmawiałem z kolegą z Wenezueli i mówi, że wszyscy tam się cieszą z tego co Trump zrobił (nawet ci, którzy Trumpa nienawidzą)

Did Hegseth add them to a text chat?
https://bsky.app/profile/onestpress.onestnetwork.com/post/3mbkzem4iyk27

Olga Nesterova (@onestpress.onestnetwork.com)
NYT, WaPo learned of the secret US raid on Venezuela soon before it was scheduled to begin but held off publishing what they had at the administration's request to avoid endangering US troops

Being hit by my first DDOS attack right now, it's all quite exciting!!!

A #firefly reboot would be nice.

Finally got around to working on some data mining and processing for https://www.wyrimaps.net/wow/ by generating the in-game world maps. With some varying success, while to a certain degree, these maps are technically somewhat correct. They make no sense.

I just completed "Printing Department" - Day 4 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode https://adventofcode.com/2025/day/4

Je ne comprends absolument pas comment fonctionne l'UI de base de Mastodon (sur piaille.fr dans mon cas) quand il s'agit d'afficher un aperçu pour les liens présents dans le toot.
La logique voudrait que ce soit le premier lien présent. Mais si je mets un lien plus loin dans le message vers un autre toot, alors celui-ci semble prendre la précédence, et du coup ça fait un aperçu de l'autre toot plutôt que du lien que je souhaite mettre en avant.
Bref, ça fait deux …

I really don't understand how anybody can justify continuing to use twitter.
"The French offices of Elon Musk's X have been raided by the Paris prosecutor's cyber-crime unit, as part of an investigation into suspected offences including unlawful data extraction and complicity in the possession of child pornography."
#Twitter

Let it go, let it go, seriously, if the data is not the expected types, I want the error, so let it 💥

As we’re landing, crew asks everyone to stay seated so paramedics can get into the back of the plane. Seatbelt sign goes off, 5 people in my section promptly stand up and start yanking luggage from the overhead bins. Some bins left open when crew scolds people back to their seats.

Big Think is pop-sci drivel with a questionable cast of ‘experts’ that still lives on MechaHitler’s CSAM-generating platform and (based on its accessibility statement) uses an overlay (I block them, so not sure which).
An author citing Ayn Rand is just icing.
https://dair-community.social/@emilymb

“We’re going to run the country.”
Ugh. Chevron and the US will bleed it dry using our tax dollars.

Recently, I suggested to someone who doesn't like most VPS or shared hosting providers that they look at a colocation provider. I was surprised about how cheap that is. It got me wondering if I should look at it. (I should not.)

sejm.gov.pl ma RSS... ale ma też bot protection. Więc żaden klient RSS go sobie nie wczyta XD

Magic link login is fine, session expiry is fine, but for the love of god please don't do both.
If you have to re-auth every week, there is little more frustrating that blocking the process waiting for an email so I can click a button, over and over and over...

Neither Deque nor accessiBe appears to have met its promise / goal of 100% WCAG coverage by the end of 2025.
Granted, accessiBe scrubbed that date years ago, before the FTC fined it for false claims about ‘AI’.
Yet both still promote ‘AI’ solutions.
https://adria…

I've never liked winter weather but this is getting exceptionally irritating.

Timberborn added HTTP support in their latest version. Both sending and receiving requests. Just a URL, no body or anything. But that is enough to have it signal my @… instance about whether I have enough logs or not in stock. On a trigger, it sends a GET request to HA, and HA announces it through a voice satellite:

I’m so old I only design for Desktop Suit Gundam.

This years ‘tile’ pattern is last year’s ‘card’ pattern, which is the prior year’s ‘block’ pattern, which is just a reformulation of the ‘slide’ that was yanked from the ‘slider’ that didn’t slide and it was always and still is a pile of nested fucking `<div>`s with an event handler on an `<a href="#">`.
Well done, design system monkeys. Well done.

RE: https://mastodon.strangeparts.com/@strangeparts/116166361150953553
Something new to watch while eating lunch

Time for oliebollen!
#oliebollen #nye #oliebol

My work days feel more and more like people outwardly employing Pascal’s Wager when talking about genAI, LLMs, agentic whatever fake-AI silliness. Saying the words for their bosses but not feeling it otherwise.
PAIscal’s Wager? Pascal’s wAIger? PascaLLM’s wager?

maslow's hierarchy of butts

This is a good reminder to check with your local library before you order seeds for this spring.

> 3D TV, AMP, Augmented Reality, Beanie Babies, Blockchain, Cartoon Avatars, Curved TVs, Frogans, Hoverboards, iBeacons, Jetpacks, Metaverse, NFTs, Physical Web, Quantum Computing, Quibi, Small and Safe Nuclear Reactors, Smart Glasses, Stadia, WiMAX.
>
> The problem is, the same dudes (and it was nearly always dudes) who were pumped for all of that bollocks now won't stop wanging on about Artificial Fucking Intelligence.
>
> "It's gonna be the …

My home server is still running, but the web KVM isn't. I'm not sure how long it will be before I get annoyed enough to fix it.

Bezos did shit like https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/washington-post-will-no-longer-make-presidential-endorsements-rcna177319, got everyone to cancel their subscriptions, and then demanded deep cuts to the paper as a result. I think that everyone knew exactly how this was going to turn out.

> I wonder if you could trick people into paying more in taxes by calling it traditional crowdfunding?
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/fund

I give monthly to PBS, NPR, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and Urban Milwaukee because I appreciate what they do, but there are soooo many others that put out the occasional article I want to read but can't justify paying a monthly or annual fee for. I wish there were an equivalent to the Libby magazine rack for stuff like the Wall Street Journal or The Verge.

Orgrimmar hits differently 10 minutes before Midnight
#WorldOfWarcraft #Midnight #Warcraft

I think that I'm finally back to baseline.

This is going to be good.
(I have a bad cold, and I'm hoping this would help with my sinuses.)

The cooking instructions are predominantly in Chinese.

I’ve broken my dry spell of no fire alarms at conference hotels! I was starting to think I’d never have to prioritize passport over pants in a mad dash to the stairs again!

I don't know if it is worth the extra $1-2 to have the car warm itself up every morning but I also don't know how to turn that off. The VW app discontinued support for my car ~5yrs ago.

@… Tempted to be honest

RE: https://mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdevs/116002119945073671
I am vaguely annoyed these are called ‘enhancements’.
Animated GIF alt:
App menu − Settings − AI Controls − “Block AI Enhancements” (toggle).
Then scroll down and find …

I really hope this stuff helps me get over this virus

@… 🫂 anything we can do for you?

I'm spending my lunch break watching the new Colin Furze video where he replaces the springs on his bicycle with magnets.

Steve lining us up at #SotB2026.
https://bsky.app/profile/stevefaulkner.bsky.social/post/3mfwipbaupk2p

Steve Faulkner (@stevefaulkner.bsky.social)
4 for the price of one at #SOTB26 @aardrian.bsky.social, @brucel.bsky.social, @sjoy.lol and Stuart

Taking the dog outside to use the bathroom, I found a pile of dog poop frozen to the concrete.

@… @… both!

I wonder if you could pay for an international vacation by smuggling a ram into the united states. 🤔

I just noticed Deque changed its logo from the combined ‘D’ and ‘Q’ letterform (visually representing the pronunciation) to the ‘AI’ anus (or “AInus”) of the big LLM purveyors.
I bet this was for Deque’s 100% WCAG ‘AI’ coverage, which must be getting released today to honor its March promise.

YOLO Wasn't expecting to warming up to using an agent for the shitty tasks this easily
#YOLO #Junie #LLM

RE: #SotB2026

I really liked the movie Edge of Tomorrow. I am pretty sure that the manga that this is based on is the basis of that movie.
#AllYouNeedIsKill #EdgeOfTomorrow #LiveDieRepeat

@… wild

10 years ago today was my first day as a solo digital accessibility consultant.
Yes, that’s me on a balance ball on bubble wrap. I hadn’t quite filled my sales pipeline yet.
https://aardrian.tumblr.com/post/136608190926/day-1-of-my-new-freelanc…

Really need to find a new search engine with @Google going all in on clanker slop for math. The difference of an additional zero:
#google #LLM #clankers

My StoryGraph 2025 reading wrap-up was generated two hours before the new year and one hour before I finished another book — so it’s not reflected in the stats.
Anyway if you’re curious where I spend my free time:
https://app.thestorygraph.com/wrap-up/2025/aardrian

I wish they would’ve given this more than one season
#CowboyBebop

10 years ago today I exited my own company to go all-in on digital accessibility as a solo consultant.
I spent my afternoon in the office getting dizzy. I was also the only one there.
https://aardrian.tumblr.com/post/136349046831/last-day-to-…

I tried to put a stake in the ground for how I have used and will (not) use the collection of technologies loosely and collectively referred to as ‘AI’ for content on my blag-o-tron:
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/12/my-use-of-ai-on-this-site.html
Boring read…

My Use of ‘AI’ on this Site
I’m using this post to acknowledge my past practices and establish future ones on this site related to ‘AI’. I have not, and will not, use LLMs to write, draft, review, or otherwise participate in content creation — outside of clearly-identified contexts to critique it. I have used generative technologies…

This is not, in fact, a great turnstile. None of these perform any counting nor prevent a person from going through in the wrong direction. Somebody needs a refund.

I did what I always do and checked how much one of the new IPads would cost in the spec that I would want. It's $1249. I would rather buy gently used than spend $1249 on an iPad, but it is good to know.

If I had more time and interest, I would dig into this. I'm curious why the description on that page is failing. (It's not my website. I just saw it while scrolling through my timeline.)

From @…’s #SotB2026 talk: “If you can count from one to six, you can do headings.”

I think that the city is here to grind my stump (and no that's not a sex thing)

Obviously a bunch of scams happened because of this machine. I don't know why they let this remain?

It looks like @… can do quote toots, now. Yay!

Bruce is getting into fighting shape (#SotB2026 attendees, Steve’s offering a discount (

I did not sleep well, last night.

RE: https://toot.cafe/@aardrian/115980598322775231
I’m thinking of a weekend trip to see State of the Browser. On a mountain with crap reception right now, so lazy-webbing to see if anyone can suggest a hotel by The Barbican Centre before I drop coin on airfare…

It's been years since I last used Notepad on a daily basis but a likely "Chinese state-sponsored group" using it as an attack vector still feels too close to home.
"According to the analysis provided by the security experts, the attack involved infrastructure-level compromise that allowed malicious actors to intercept and redirect update traffic destined for notepad-plus-plus.org."
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/hijacked-incident-info-update/

I spent too much of the past two weekends working on writing or editing shit for https://jws.news.

I should just call today a sick day. 😥

Fucking assholes!

PDFs are already shit for users, so no surprise LLMs barf on them:
“The war against PDFs is heating up”
https://www.economist.com/business/2026/02/24/the-war-against-pdfs-is-heating-up (

Damn pets are assholes. They wouldn't let me sleep, last night.

Waking up in London to find the US president who wants a peace prize has started yet another war.

I started listening to an Archer podcast while I work and Pocket Casts is now recommending a TNG podcast and a Paul Blart podcast to me. I'm a little surprised that there is enough content for "Til Death Do Us Blart".

“Blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol is dead”
https://www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/blind-refugee-abandoned-by-border-patrol-is-dead/
Given the statements from

Blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol dies in Buffalo.
A nearly blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol miles from his home dies in Buffalo after having been missing for nearly a week.

#AudioEye claims it can find more issues than other #overlay vendors:
https://adrianroselli.com/2023/02/au…

#AudioEye Will Get You Sued
Disclaimer: This post and the headline is my opinion. I provide verifiable facts throughout to inform that opinion. I am also not a lawyer, and this post does not constitute legal advice. The content reflects my genuinely held beliefs and opinions. My concern with AudioEye has consistently been with the…

The snow has arrived in the north shore. 😔 #Milwaukee

Did I go back in time 20 years? This is exactly what I remember Northridge Mall looking like before it went very poorly.
#Southridge #Greendale #Mall

Before meeting up with a buddy to see the new Avatar movie, I went to a coffee shop to do a little bit of copy editing. When I ordered my Chai, the cashier asked if I wanted it to be Indian or European. I got really excited about that.
#Chai #Tea

That's good to read.
"Milwaukee, Wauwatosa, South Milwaukee, and Oconomowoc have changed their zoning ordinances and taken other steps in recent years to encourage construction of ADUs. Shorewood and Waukesha are considering zoning changes to allow ADUs, with the topic surfacing as an issue in Brookfield's mayoral race."
#Milwaukee #Shorewood #Brookfield #ADUs

I thought about trying this out on a trip but it apparently only works at select North American airports and costs significantly more money than $75. I don't think you would get terribly large amounts of value from a butler at ORD. 😏

In February, I received an email from CarFax estimating the mileage on my 2016 at 464,371 miles. Yesterday, I got into the car during the snowstorm, turned on the wipers, and realized that I really need to get them replaced right now, and after going through the quick change joint in the neighborhood, it looks like they now know the real milage.

is frustrated by a conversation with a junior dev who keeps complaining that he can't hold down a job because "immigrants took all of the jobs," but also isn't applying for work at all because he "can't risk losing Medicare coverage."

You can buy a can of Red Bull from Walgreens for $3.69. You can buy a 4-pack of Red Thunder from Aldi for $3.65. I can't detect a difference between the two. It's cheaper to just drink tea but if you need to wake up quickly, off-brand seems to be the way to go.

I tried installing Clawd Bot / Molt Bot / OpenClaw (https://openclaw.ai) on a Mac that isn't a daily driver, but couldn't get it to work. 🤷‍♂️

... I'm not too sure if that is feasible, though. I have a former coworker who stopped writing code to start selling houses and I figured that I'm going to start by picking his brain over a cup of coffee.
I also figure that I have ~5 years before the cost of doing such a thing will normalize in any way in America. If every part of the process has a 150% tariff on the cost of materials, it probably won't be worth it.

... That would make working remotely pretty easy. With my house at the back of the lot and the neighbor's house at the front of the lot, I have started thinking about the idea of building a new house in the front yard and then having the current house declared an ADU by the city. I could build the house of my dreams in a neighbourhood that I like, rent the old house out to offset the cost, and hopefully come out the other end without too much pain. ...

In 2012, I bought the least expensive house (in a reasonable condition) that I could find in the most expensive zip code in the area. I like the neighborhood and the house is comfortable but this is my front yard. Over the years, I have thought about upgrading to something more. I have also thought about buying a condo in Mexico and spending part of the year there in hopes of eventually getting dual citizenship. After all, Mexico City is in the same time zone as Milwaukee. ...

It looks like it's snowing again

... For the first month, I checked the status on a daily basis. I can't do that anymore.

It has been two months, three weeks, and three days since I requested PSLF Buyback and it has been one month and two weeks since I was told "processing can take up to 90 business days" (over four months) but "there is currently a backlog and may take more time to process your request than usual."
All I want the Department of Education to do is tell me how much more money I owe them, so I can send them a check.