Notes

Happy #BlueBeanieDay ! 💙
Striving for a more accessible web everyday #a11y
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Beanie_Day

Calum wearing a blue beanie with backdrop of clear blue sky and corner of a typical terraced house in London

First time living in a 2008-built property with electric central heating where the control panel seems to have been designed purely by an engineer minus any UX designer 😵‍💫

An electronic heating timer controller with dial and digital display

Still a favourite London pizza spot for custom toppings at a decent price, Crust Bros

Red pizza with toppings of burrata, onions, nduja and smoked mozarella

Final leg of the journey Brussels to London. The usual experience of everyone queueing at once to board, so waited in the lounge until last few minutes to departure. #TrainsNotPlanes

platform view of Eurostar in the evening at Brussels South

Second leg smooth transfer at Frankfurt Am Main for ICE International to Brussels #TrainsNotPlanes

front view of ICE train inside Frankfurt Am Main Hauptbahnhof and destination screen with Brussels

So far on time, first leg of my train journey back to London from Germany #TrainsNotPlanes

Front of ICE train arriving at station on clear morning

Little to show at IndieWebCamp Create day, but did manage to setup my site on Mastodon (partly)

Exploring UNESCO World Heritage Site, Bamberg, one of the few German cities spared aerial bombardment and total destruction in WW2

River view with bridge, clock tower and painted building beside

Pre-dinner walk in Nuremberg

Skyline view at twilight of central Nuremberg

Off to Nuremberg, brb

It's been a long wait but looking forward to attend next year's #PatternsDay

Happy to be reacquainted with a bunch of the UK IndieWeb community at State of the Browser 11 today, like old times!

So Threads... just another inaccessible social media platform built by people who think accessibility is just another low priority feature request in the backlog 😥 #a11y

📢 Looking forward to starting a new role with dxw next week working alongside GDS focusing on design and accessibility. Saying goodbye to ten years working in WordPress and PHP

18 (×2) years old today!

Calum sitting beside an office entrance window with the figure 36 printed on the glass

350m people, the same polulation size of the USA, are colour blind globally. Yet everywhere almost everyday I observe dozens of examples of poor contrast in both digital and printed media #GAAD

Following inspiration from #btconf, excited to be returning to Nuremberg after a long time later this year for Border None, still tickets available! https://border-none.net/2023/

Another year, another trip to #btconf in the best seat on Eurostar – in Seat 61. Bis bald Düsseldorf!

Calum looking above his train seat at number 61

Ironic accessibility issue spotted on @W3C / @w3c@w3c.social’s site, horizontal scrolling overflow on the very webpage that’s describing the success criterion!

Screenshot of W3.org Reflow description page highlighting horizontal overflow

The level of stress and anxiety I'm currently going through for trying to sell and buy a home in the UK is the main reason why I've been putting a move for so long #BrokenBritain