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Heather Buchel

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Sr. Front-end Engineer, Accessibility. Aggressive keyboard navigation tester. Fighter of bright ideas. Hater of delight. MMO gamer. Brooklyn. she/her. Opinions are my own. Masto: https://hachyderm.io/@hbuchel Web: https://heather-buchel.com

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Working in open source doesn't sound very fun these days.

06.03.2026 14:06 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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@jennschiffer.com is πŸ”΄LIVE on stream.place! some crafts after dark (east coast)

πŸ”΄ LIVE https://stream.place/jennschiffer.com some crafts after dark (east coast)

06.03.2026 01:14 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Sorry im still new to caring

06.03.2026 01:10 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

When is the basketball superbowl

06.03.2026 01:09 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Sorry the ratio is like 60% world of warcraft, 20% web accessibility, 20% mad about government right now, I hope i did that math right. My brain needs to shut off.

06.03.2026 01:05 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The amount of people that didn't even notice Sendrax died during this quest is still very funny to me. Even the major story characters failed to mention it.

06.03.2026 01:04 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You all keep making me write Javascript for the other things (HTML/CSS) and I shan't forgive you for that.

06.03.2026 01:01 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

ECMAScript excitement πŸ˜‰

Next week in NY, @tc39.es will consider advancing:

3️⃣ Intl Era/Month Code
3️⃣ Temporal
2️⃣.7️⃣ Intl Keep Trailing Zeros
2️⃣ Error Stack Accessor
2️⃣ Import Text
1️⃣ Amount
1️⃣ Intl Unit Protocol
1️⃣ Thenable Curtailment
1️⃣ TypedArray concat & find within
0️⃣ Error code prop
0️⃣ Iterator Includes

05.03.2026 21:40 πŸ‘ 45 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Wait, have I been missing out or is this your usual trickery

06.03.2026 00:53 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Dang, that might have been the first PokΓ©mon game I've wanted to buy but I dont own a switch

05.03.2026 23:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

We need more tendrils and tussled hair in the character customizer.

05.03.2026 23:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Propellant. β€”Β ethanmarcotte.com We cannot separate the everyday use of β€œAI” platforms from their use in death and war.

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We cannot meaningfully separate everyday usage of β€œAI” from the machine of death and war. If you’re upset by the military-industrial complex? These tools feed it; they *are* it.

ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/propel...

05.03.2026 16:53 πŸ‘ 56 πŸ” 24 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

me having trouble running some software locally: maybe my resource proxies aren't setup? Missing certificate? Maybe an issue with docker? I'm missing permissions? I should nuke it all and start completely over? Maybe get a new job?

teammate absolutely saving the day: vpn

05.03.2026 15:36 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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World of Warcraft: Midnight is here and the soundtrack is available on streaming platforms! So grateful to be included on this, the 11th installment I have had the honor of contributing to over the last 20 years. Congrats to all the talented contributors who brought this to life.

05.03.2026 06:34 πŸ‘ 69 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 3

I've been turning off the music in game so I can listen to this uninterrupted haha. It's all so good!

05.03.2026 13:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My solution for 1:1's sometimes causing me anxiety is to have so much work to talk about that I just never have to stop talking I guess, my bad

04.03.2026 18:41 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

any @nuxt.com devs interested?

04.03.2026 12:41 πŸ‘ 27 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah after Turalyon blowing all hot the whole time, it was nice to have Alleria show up

03.03.2026 19:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh for sure, and there are people genuinely talking about it, too and it doesn't feel like lip service. To me, that's really important as a base. Hope they keep up with it.

03.03.2026 17:19 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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03.03.2026 16:50 πŸ‘ 28 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 4

I like seeing all of your npmx posts even though I have never tried to use it or anything because it's refreshing seeing a thing in tech where I'm not like "wow they didn't consider accessibility" or "wow I hope they don't use this to bomb people"

03.03.2026 16:09 πŸ‘ 53 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 3

That reputation they're chasing has also been gone a lot longer than they think it has. In my early 20s? Yeah sure, they were a good price point and you felt like you were getting decent items. But even as far back as like 10-15 or or so years ago? They have been dreadful stores to shop at.

03.03.2026 15:55 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

YEAH related, I've learned you can wrap a label around a lot of things and it completely throws off the accessibility tree and can hide a multitude of sins.

03.03.2026 15:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Finding an accessibility-first culture in npmx Today is the alpha release of npmx β€” an alternative browser for the npm registry. Abbey Perini joined early and soon discovered accessibility was a deep part of the culture, right from the start, which...

Today is the alpha release of npmx β€” an alternative browser for the npm registry. Abbey Perini joined early and soon discovered accessibility was a deep part of the culture, right from the start, which was both refreshing and incredibly productive.

piccalil.li/blog/finding...

03.03.2026 14:06 πŸ‘ 50 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Accessibility scores are almost always based on automated testing which usually results in a pretty high number (and can be easily fooled with really weird HTML) without catching most of your issues. So it's a world where "94%" might sound like a high number, but its relatively meaningless.

03.03.2026 14:43 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The constant struggle of not allowing the accessibility work to be turned into a metrics game, even though folks in leadership love a good dashboard with numbers on it.

03.03.2026 14:41 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I feel like we are used to going to only "shattered" worlds, but you can see distant horizons on this world. Overall, this might be my favorite expansion release campaign. It's very focused and the plot never feels too windy (even with ZA being very unique, you're there for a reason).

03.03.2026 14:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah I wasn't sure what to expect with Void Storm after seeing the initial screen shots which looked like Karesh (which made me think it might be a little boring/already done) but it's actually fantastic. I also love how they extended the horizon so the world actually looks huge.

03.03.2026 14:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

me, in warcraft: wow this character is a problem, I really hope we kill them
*we literally kill them*
me: wow I can't believe we actually killed them

03.03.2026 13:57 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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