Weeknote 34
Dental woes take-two, UKGovcamp, Empire of Light
Dental woes take-two, UKGovcamp, Empire of Light
Almost a year ago I set myself a challenge to attain certification as a Web Accessibility Specialist (WAS). This is a summary of how I prepared for the exam, and hopefully some motivation for others to learn more about web accessibility.
Auditing a website to measure how accessible it is takes on an extensive range of manual and automated tests to cover all aspects of usability.
Checked in at The Macaroni Club
IndieWebCamp was back in Brighton again this month for a weekend of talks, discussion and making, along with a meeting for IndieWeb organisers the day before.
Finally after five years I made it to the London Film Festival this weekend. I went to see the London première for Rialto (trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NKTbmqqINs) which is set in and around Dublin Port. Feeding into my Irish heritage, I'm inclined to watch pretty much anything filmed on location in Ireland. The director, Peter Mackie Burns, came along too for a Q&A afterward which made from some interesting insights into how the characters were cast and a strong focus on cinematography.
Machine learning for something useful
Attempting to purchase 4 Fahrten-Kurzstrecke the old way from an array of different kinds of transit ticket machine in Berlin reminds me why I normally just download the app / buy a smartcard when using public transport these days
Checked in at Machhörndl Kaffee
Introductory overview of the history behind Linked Data on the web and what standards exist to represent linked data today.
Continuing the progress towards Service Worker support in Safari for MacOS.
https://webkit.org/blog/8060/release-notes-for-safari-technology-preview-47/
Hopefully coming soon in Safari for iOS as well..
Late 90s secondary school IT classes consisted of one day a fortnight learning how to make a Word document on Windows 98 and one day a fortnight learning how to make a ClarisWorks document on Mac OS 8
Running Edge/IE11 in VirtualBox on Mac super easy with free virtual machines https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/
Pizza night, first time used bread machine for dough making hence a super and spongy base!
Coinciding with this year’s domain renewal for my website I decided to acquire an SSL certificate for the first time to serve it over HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure).
Annual conference bringing together everyone who makes the web