Eric Eide
@ericeide.bsky.social
Research Associate Professor, University of Utah Kahlert School of Computing • Personal account • Opinions my own, not employer's • RTs not endorsements
Manual testing with a screen reader will help you catch and fix accessibility issues that can't be identified by automated tests. Sara Soueidan has a great guide on various screen readers and how to set them up on your computer. www.sarasoueidan.com/blog/testing...
Setting up a screen reader testing environment on your computer
— The personal website of Sara Soueidan, inclusive Web UI engineer
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Today is the day on which Ray Bradbury's “There Will Come Soft Rains” (pub'd 1950) takes place. It’s a short elegaic story about a smart home slowly dying after its owners are wiped out in a nuclear extinction event. Re-reading it now, I’m feeling softly sucker-punched by what it has to offer us.
A love letter to the old 9th and 9th Whale Mural. New mural design gets unveiled tomorrow, August 1st, at 6pm at the Milk Block on 900S and 400E-ish — part of City Cast Salt Lake’s 801 Day festivities!
a 1990s-era Earthlink explainer that reminds us a time when we still had the power (and the ability) to accept - or refuse #othernetworks
This is going to make it very difficult to know which sports we should ban them from.
Kat Kerlin@katkerlin.bsky.social · last wk.Some avocados are female in the morning and male in the afternoon, while others are on the opposite schedule. This helps them avoid self-pollination. How do they do it? A @ucdavis.bsky.social study explains. www.ucdavis.edu/food/news/st...
Has Harmons stopped carrying "Bob's Bars," the snack bars from Bob's Red Mill?
My primary mode of interaction with IEEE is throwing away all the insurance solicitations they mail to me.
I am delighted to announce that after 5 years of work, 15 early releases, 50,000 words written, and 100,000 more deleted, *Logic for Programmers* is now complete and available in print! Blog post announcement: www.hillelwayne.com/post/lfp/ Website: logicforprogrammers.com
Logic for Programmers
Practical math for the working programmer.
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Hmm… What about OnlyProofs?
kottke.org@kottke.org · last wk.Here’s where we’re at in 2026: because of federal funding cuts, scientists are turning to OnlyFans to fund their research. Scientists tracking marmot populations launched OnlyMarms on the adult platform, inspired by Margo’s Got Money Troubles. [kottke.org]
Hugging Face just published a highly detailed technical account of OpenAI's accidental cyberattack on their systems - it's wild how sophisticated this was: huggingface.co/blog/agent-i... Wrote up some of my own notes here: simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/28/...
Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
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In desperation, scientists turn to OnlyFans for funding. But it's not Hot Scientist Feet. No. It's HOT MARMOT SUMMER. OnlyMarms. It makes me both sad for the state of funding, and also...I mean good on ya, that is creative thinking! www.sfgate.com/national-par...
Calif. researchers turn to OnlyFans as their funding dries up
But it's not what you think.
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🤔 Do you have questions about your experiments on POWDER? Sign up for office hours on Friday, July 31. 🌞 calendly.com/powderwireless
POWDER Office Hours
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"Agent Findley and several others repeatedly asked Tunick to open his phone during the interrogation... When he finally provided a passcode, 'the screen went blank, flashed several times and the phone appeared to restart', according to the motion." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
US government targets Cop City protester over phone operating system
Concern over US effort to prosecute Sam Tunick, accused by authorities of wiping his phone using GrapheneOS
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We noted these all over in the last couple of days. No note in this article if they are side walk legal, what speed they can or should go and recommended PPE while riding. My son has driven strangers to the ER after witnessing a scooter crash. Be careful out there www.sltrib.com/news/2026/07...
What to know about the new rental scooters now on Salt Lake City streets
The fresh fleet of teal-and-black Veo scooters replace the orange Spin models.
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White House science policy captured headlines this week, with the announcement of awards for its flagship AI program, Congressional hearings, and a Vannevar Bush-esque report "Science: A New Golden Age." We fashioned the news into one big story—incl. key updates at NSF. Reported w/ Kaia Glickman:
White House rolls out AI funding — and signals a new era for US science
Chief US science adviser calls for a shakeup in funding while handing out grants to accelerate research with AI.
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🪶 Redtail, an AI factory for all of Utah, recently debuted on a list of the world's top supercomputers, ranking No. 159 for performance and No. 76 for energy efficiency. The system, managed by SCI’s Center for High Performance Computing at @utah.edu, supports statewide innovation. bit.ly/redtailrank
Redtail, Utah’s AI Factory Supercomputer, Ranks Among Fastest and Greenest Systems in the World - Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute
The University of Utah returns to the global supercomputing rankings with Redtail, an AI factory designed to expand access to advanced computing across the state. Redtail ranked No. 159 for performanc...
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This year is the 50th anniversary of the Utah Teapot's first appearance at #SIGGRAPH in 1976. Martin Newell, Jim Blinn, and I will have a Talk at #SIGGRAPH2026 celebrating it on Thursday. Don't miss it! Also, check out the 2026 version of the #UtahTeapot: graphics.cs.utah.edu/teapot/
Working on interesting (and fun) networking or networked systems research? Why not discuss it with the world: submit to NINeS 2027! The deadline is approaching register your papers by July 30, and submit them by August 6. More details at nines-conference.org.
NINeS 2027
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If we counted correctly, that's 12 papers at OSDI 2026 that present experiments or other evaluations performed with CloudLab. 👍 Check out CloudLab for yourself: www.cloudlab.us
CloudLab
Website for CloudLab
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I have given a talk several times to incoming PhD students about thriving in grad school. It was meant to liven up orientation day, but touched upon some valid points about resilience and the hidden struggles of research. I wrote an essay based on the talk here: svivek.com/writing/2026...
Thriving in Grad School :: Vivek Srikumar
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POWDER and Rimedo Labs have embarked on a collaboration to integrate and test jamming detection and mitigation capabilities on the OCUDU RAN software in an over the air (OTA) deployment. Learn more: powderwireless.net/news#news-ju...
Today's typo: meant to type "related work," but it came out "retaliated work."
The Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library opens today in western North Dakota at 10:27 a.m., a nod to the 26th president's Oct. 27 birthday. Find complete North Dakota Monitor coverage here: buff.ly/FK2xjgj
You might wonder why people can't just follow the rules—and surely, many people choose not to—but it is also the case that a lot of people don't follow the news and are unaware that there is a fireworks ban in effect in Utah.
Ben Winslow@benwinslow.bsky.social · last mo.ICYMI, police plan extra patrols in fireworks free areas of Utah: www.fox13now.com/news/politic... #utpol #Utah
This is your next chance to see me (near the back, behind a lot of other performers) on stage at Abravanel Hall. www.daysof47.com/events/kutv-...
Events / Days of '47 KUTV Pops Concert
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