Jeremy Rivera

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Panelists and audience at a Pinellas Technical Network event

Evan Brenner, the host of the PTN event asking the panelists a question

Jeremy Rivera, one of the panelists, expounding on an answer while gesturing with his hands

One of the other panelists sharing an answer

Absolutely great time last week at the Pinellas Tech Network & Tampa Devs event. We covered architecture, performance, product, accessibility, AI, and how to stay ahead in our very quickly evolving industry. Trying to get to more grassroots events in 2026 and see actual humans.

#tampa #developer

Very much checking every month on my preorder!

Woah don’t be hasty!

Jack Dorsey tweeting the reasons for laying off a tremendous percentage of his staff, justifying it with covid hiring. Full post: "yes we over-hired during covid because i incorrectly built 2 separate company structures (square & cash app) rather than 1, which we corrected mid 2024. but this misses all the complexity we took on through lending, banking, and BNPL. and that we're now targeting $2M+ gross profit per person, 4x our pre-covid efficiency, which stayed flat at ~$500k from 2019 until 2024. we have and do run an efficient company... better than most."

Seeing some buzz around the Block layoffs.

Executives may perceive layoffs as the result of “AI increasing productivity” or “doing more with less". AI wasn't the reason, bad company practices were. This AI demonization is an easy scapegoat but shouldn't cover the real issue of mismanagement.

Jeremy explaining why enterprise accessibility is hard, and what we can do about it.

"Common accessibility failures are entirely predictable. That is a good thing. This is good news for us because predictable problems can be prevented." - @webwhey.bsky.social www.deque.com/axe-con/sess... #axecon

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Come catch us in ATL 🍑 early summer!

If you can beat Atlanta traffic and make it May 19-21 I’d love to personally get you a ☕️.

I'm presenting at Axe-con 2026 With Jeremy Rivera, Developer Advocate at Deque Systems February 24-25, 2026

Hey everyone 👋

Axe-con is almost here, and there’s still time to register.

On Wednesday, February 25 at 12:00pm EST, I’ll be speaking in the Wildcard Track on:

Building Accessible Enterprise Applications: A Developer’s Playbook

Register here: 🔗 www.deque.com/axe-con/regi...

#axecon #a11y

Baby Ezra wearing a MongoDB shirt

Starting to become a fan of developer inspired baby merch!

Thank you mysterious benefactor 🙏🏻💚 @mongodb.bsky.social

Hey guys, if you’re in ATL May 19-21 come check out a talk I’m giving at VueConf US!
#VueJs #Frontend #dev

Newborn baby boy swaddled in his father’s arms

Starting a new position 🆕

Been a little MIA while preparing for this new role. Will likely continue to be a little irregular but will try to post a lot of this year’s content before the close of December. Grateful and blessed 👶🏻👨🏻‍🍼

MongoDB Subject Matter Expert hoodie with a handwritten letter of appreciation for contributions to the new wave of exams

Community is everything and everything we do as engineers and gets used by the greater community should be celebrated. Happy to receive a new hoodie from Heather Davis and her team at @mongodb.bsky.social

Just in time for the Florida winter 🌴☀️🕶️

The axe-con 2026 schedule is out! 📆

Happy to share I have a talk 🗣️ slated in the Wildcard track for Day-2 about what to lookout for when working on enterprise applications and what shows up when we endeavor to build accessibly.

Very interested in chapter 17 👀

The power of developer-led accessibility advocacy | Deque Accessibility advocacy must address the tension between doing what’s right and shipping fast. Who better than developers to lead the way?

Accessibility shouldn’t be the thing that derails your sprint.
If it is, your process is the problem, not you.

I wrote about the power that we have as developers to influence and be the change to those processes.

Link here to read 🔗: www.deque.com/blog/the-pow...

Played around with Cursor yesterday and finally wrapped up a personal site to showcase some of my work + experiences. I’m pulling in my Medium RSS feed and even set up an open-source SMTP for the contact form.
Trying to keep it simple and accessible. Feedback is always welcome www.jeremy-rivera.dev

Jeremy, speaking on some AI frustrations developers reported having during a recent StackOverflow survey

Super happy to have been invited to speak 🗣️ at A11ySD about AI and Accessibility. We have a long way to go before the code LLMs are generating is truly accessible so we have to do our best to validate and check any code we’re pushing to PROD.

In N Out burger, animal style with fries

Been to California 3 times in 16 months. In-N-Out became a ritual. Speaking at a11ySD tomorrow. If anyone is local swing by 🫡

Neo, the humanoid robot in 3 colors, left shows its profile in a slate color, the center view is a side profile in white, and the rightmost is a full body picture in black

Neo, the humanoid robot looking at a bookshelf

For the ‘cheap’ price of $20,000 you can buy a robot that listens to your conversations and fold your laundry.

I do wonder how this market will continue to expand and if there will be adjacent markets that pop up for customizations, accessories, and software.

What a time to be alive.

axe-con mini: dev-day. Removing friction from accessible development. Thursday, October 30, from 11:00 am - 1:30 pm (EDT).

Our inaugural axe-con Mini event is tomorrow from 11:00 am - 1:30 pm (EST)!

Attend to hear top experts at Microsoft, Salesforce, Deque, and more, as they share insights on our theme: “Removing friction from accessible development."

Register now: deque.com/axe-con/mini...

Jeremy Rivera - WordPress Accessibility Day 2025 Archive Jeremy is a Developer Advocate at Deque Systems, a leader in Digital Accessibility. Jeremy got started learning about accessibility a few years ago when he started learning and working as a React…

Thank you, Jeremy Rivera (@webwhey.bsky.social), for being an amazing volunteer for WP Accessibility Day 2025! 💙

2025.wpaccessibility.day/people/jerem...

#WPAD2025 #WPA11yDay #Accessibility

Mr Beef in Chicago at night. The logo also has an old Pepsi cola logo on it.

IYKYK

#wpad2025 volunteer profile of Jeremy Rivera

Waking up at 3am to volunteer for WP accessibility day. If you care about Wordpress, Development, or Accessibility this is up your alley 📽️ 👨🏻‍💻

#wpad2025 #wordpress #accessibility #a11y

City of Chicago skyline with a body of water in front of it

Application run map around the Chicago pier showing 3 miles ran at 11:20 pace and heart rate ending at 181

Brittanica building in the evening with pinkish lights horizontally on the building

Chicago ferry with a bunch of people on the top, floating across the river passing a bridge, in front of the brittanica building

In Chi-Town for a team meet. The city is significantly prettier than expected and decided to hit a 5k run this morning to see the Navy Pier. Remote work is great but love getting in person for meets every now and then.

I saw her course on Masterclass a few years back, she was truly a gift to science.

Perfect Connections score. Connections is a game that the New York Times refreshes everyday.

I never used Twitter.

Never gotten into threads.

Had an empty X account.

But we will proceed here.

* Anyways here is a picture of my daily pride (or rage)

We applaud the commitment

Say it louder for the people in the back 🗣️

We are vibin’ today