Hello World!
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I’ve been trying to rebuild my website for… I don’t even know. It’s been at least 18 months!
I get about 80% done and decide I hate it. I no longer like the design, or I feel like the architecture is a mess. So, I just rip it all up and start over. I really annoy myself when I do this, because I know I need to fail fast and iterate etc.
Looking back over my blog posts, almost a decade ago, I wrote what can Baloo teach us about design?. Perhaps I should have re-read this first, re-used a template, and saved myself 18 months worth of anguish!
Anyway, the entire point of me telling you this, is that doing a newsletter has been on my priority list for a really long time! However, it’s only now I’ve finally deployed a new design that I’ve actually been able to build in the capability to do it.
So, “Hello world!” And, welcome to issue #1!
Things I found interesting in July 2026
Accessibility
- Accessibility in the age of AI
Ela Gorla - CSS animations, human rights, and big accessibility at the AB Web Meetup
Hidde de Vries - Building accessibility into a canvas-based product
David Winslow and Elynn Lee - Accessibility is resistance
Léonie Watson - What If Accessibility Is Actually A Data Strategy?
Dennis DuFour - AI Chatbots Are Inaccessible, and I Can Prove It
Kessler West - Android screen recording with TalkBack audio,
Patrick H. Lauke
AI
- Figma accessibility skill
Intopia - Honey (I Shrunk the AI)
Green-PT - How to talk about “AI” without adding to the anthropomorphization
Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie - Two-thirds of workers are so fed up with ‘AI slop’ that they ‘feel nostalgic for pre-AI work’
Emma Woollacott - OpenAI says AI models escaped containment to hack Hugging Face
Felix Ng - Anthropic says its Claude models ‘gained unauthorized access’ to other organizations’ systems
Ashley Capoot