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I knew a guy whose email handle was (all together, no spaces) "it's been lovely but I have to scream now" and I've loved that every day since.

I'm pretty intense, but I feel like I'm kicking ass at my job...

I'm gonna go ahead and believe I'm kicking ass at my job.

It almost feels like it could be easier now that my role is not formally "Accessibility Specialist" anymore. Instead, I can model a11y interest and advocacy as an individual contributorawithout being crushed by the weight of ownership and expectation of all things a11y.

Inspired by a couple of today's #AxeCon talks to spark some life into our digital a11y community that exists only in an all-too-quiet Teams channel. 😊

Ah, thanks! I'm sure it would be helpful either way. My bigger challenge is penetrating the elite walled garden of Design to disseminate essential relevant content as a mere engineer. 😁

Lovely talk from @annaecook.com at #AxeCon. I wanna broadcast it across our internal design channels, or really everywhere. Repeatedly. I wish for all those great messages to percolate gently into everyone's psyche. *sigh* 👏 💙

Had to commute to the office today to satisfy RTO rules, but I'm watching #axecon videos all day. 🫠😩

The inability of "UX/UI" designers to say "I don't love how this looks, but it's what works best" and iterate from there...

`text-light-4-dark-navy` 😵‍💫

Also just sat in on an office hours where an experience was being redesigned (for a "refresh", no other reason given) and there was a lot of discussion about whether the content that was in tabs could be moved to the side nav. It absolutely could, in that case. Explaining that was wild.

Like, I just saw a design system docs page with an accordion component listed under the "Navigation" section.

Accordions and Tabs are especially problematic. It feels like designers can be so afraid of new pages, they cram everything into these partial views, completely overloading the cognitive context for the user.

It is wild to me how much so-called 'single-page apps' have distorted or destroyed mental models around what is a "page" and what is "navigation" etc.

Not surprising from a historical perspective, at all. "Labor saving" technology never actually reduces the amount of work that people are expected to do. It increases it. That's because A) work is fundamentally a social relationship and B) technological innovation creates new problems to be fixed

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Yup, ok.

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So glad I removed the `title` recommendation from our icon library bc I was seeing way too much of this nonsense.

I cut my finger and broke a dish trying to salsa while making avocado toast this morning.

Que pena, Benito, hay algo de latina que me falta todavía.

Still just as useless in 2026

Related: I was just thinking about so many abused UI components/patterns that don't serve the user first. e.g. Designers hiding content in tabs and accordions to "avoid clutter" and then product owners using all those forced interactions to capture analytics.

Like, just show me the content, y'all.

AI "solutions" feel like paving well-established cow paths on ivy-league college campuses rather than dealing with walls, fences, and other barriers in the less favorable parts of town.

Automatically running a full test suite on every commit is not good for my neuronssss 🫠

How about overanalyzing every question in a self-assessment quiz, because it's not "never" but it's also not just "sometimes," and exactly which "people" are you referring to, and under which conditions should I consider this "preference," and when it says "need to" does that mea---

a man in a black sweater is making a funny face while holding his hands together and saying ew . Alt: David Schitt makes a cringe face and says "ew"

Employees were asked to submit an audio clip stating their name and a hobby/passion, along with a photo of said activity, for some community aspect of the All Hands call.

These materials were used to create an AI video montage animating the images.

So glad exec dysfunction kept me out of that one.

Structurally, I see columns. Items are mostly vertical rectangles and have more clear alignment on their vertical edges, with even gaps.
If I were consuming this content [i.e. reading order], I'd probably be scanning in a roughly jagged horizontal manner, but I still wouldn't call that "rows".

'Woo-cag' and 'way-cag' from my colleagues 😑

I'm a frequent-small-commit-er, and waiting 30s for our entire test suite to run on every commit is definitely harming my brain cycles 😩

I'm the New Kid on the Team at work, and wondering how much my fresh energy is both tiring ["We tried that already and it didn't work!" *grumpy face*] vs refreshing ["Yes, we've been meaning to try that!" *finally! face*]...

But hey, you hired someone who likes to improve things, so ha ha on you. 🤷🏻‍♀️

A shopping cart drawer showing 1 items [sic]. Below the selected product is a carousel titled 'You May Also Like' showing a default item called 'Example Product Title' with a placeholder image. Oddly, it's priced at $19.99.

Design systems, apps, and services need to account for empty states. This is the second bad example I've encountered in an hour.

Like anything else in life: if you don't have anything useful for me, keep your mouth* shut!

[*UI]