I just successfully resurrected a power washer by disassembling and cleaning its carburetor. Oil, air filter, and spark plug changed for good measure. Sentences I never thought I'd write, turns out you really can just do things!

Better get your tickets now while you still can, fewer than 10 early-bird tickets left now...

London Web Standards@londonwebstandards.org · 2w ago

Tell your friends, we have less than 15 tickets left for #SotB2027

In two weeks, Tech as Cognitive #Accessibility: Designing Systems for ADHD Brains w/ Eleanor Beilby Let's reframe ADHD-related barriers like executive dysfunction, time blindness, and working memory as a11y concerns, with practical patterns & real examples. a11ytalks.com/posts/2026-jul #A11yTalks

Tech as Cognitive Accessibility: Designing Systems for ADHD Brains | A11yTalks

ADHD involves executive dysfunction, time blindness, and working memory barriers that standard technology often overlooks. Cognitive accessibility, unlike sensory or motor access, is still largely…

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Hey all, I have a big favour to ask. At the beginning of the week, a large client that we had 100% expected to get started with a large project this month has dropped out at the most inconvenient time for us.

Do you remember how amazing the #SotB26 speakers were? Best believe that next #SotB27 won’t be any different - amazing speakers and great topics all day! Go ahead and secure your tickets now so you don’t miss out! 2027.stateofthebrowser.com/tickets/

Okay folks. People are interested in this idea – it has legs and I want to make it happen. If you're a digital professional and interested in being part of such a freelancer collective, send me a message. Nothing set in stone yet, but I've got concepts of a plan and would like to establish this.

Vale@vale.rocks · last mo.

Perhaps a freelancer collective is needed? A distributed agency. Different people with different specialisations sharing resources and referring work to each other based on their capabilities. Every freelancer I know is reporting difficulty finding work, and they're long established in the industry.

I write for people. Emotionally, there is a vain part of me, full of misplaced hope that writing about the unglamorous-yet-vital parts of design and development might help steer LLMs towards better defaults in some small way. Intellectually, I know it is just a drop in the ocean.

Spent most of the evening making dinner and this peach and apple cobbler for a family gathering tomorrow. Pretty proud of it even though it's among the easiest things to make. Quality time offline, often just what I need to unwind and find some joy.

Still unemployed & it’s been hard catching up with finances. In need of help with rent, bills, & medications. If you can help financially or share this post, I’d really appreciate it. Thank you.💛 - paypal.me/conniechiiiwa - venmo.com/u/conniechii... - buymeacoffee.com/conniechiiiwa

Salma's DevRel perspective gets to the heart of feelings many of us are struggling with. We're in collective mourning over what we had, paired with the fear of an uncertain future. Don't know what the future holds, I just hope we don't lose the craft, community, and empathy that got us this far.

⭑ salma@whitep4nth3r.com · last mo.

Hi, friends. The last 6 years have been a blast, but I just don't like being on The Internet anymore. I'm leaving DevRel, and I wrote a little bit about why. Look after yourselves, and each other. Love, Salma

Hey y'all, putting out the bat signal: I'm looking for full-time, part-time, or contract work in product design or frontend development. ("Design engineering" if you're trendy.) Over a decade of experience building design systems for startups, healthcare, civic tech + more. ky.fyi

Ky Decker

Ky is a designer and web developer based in NYC.

ky.fyi

I’ll be available for freelance work from August onwards. I can help you with: - Accessibility workshops, either in person or online - CSS workshops - Consultancy on HTML, CSS and accessibility - Front-end development EN or DE. Get in touch if that sounds interesting ❤️ matuzo.at/about-me

About me - Manuel Matuzovic

I’m a frontend developer, consultant, accessibility auditor, blogger, teacher, and book author from Austria.

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I’m in a hard spot & working with limited executive function capacity. I could use help finding freelance, contract, or consulting leads. 💜 Hard to share. But here are my links too. TJ: ashleemboyer.com/tip-jar. CA: cash.app/$AshleeMFisher. PP: paypal.me/ashleemboyer. V: venmo.com/u/ashleemboyer.

Ashlee 🤟🏻@ashleemboyer.com · last mo.

In urgent need of funds. If you know of anyone looking for contract/freelance web development work please send them my way! I specialize in accessibility, design systems, & documentation. Open to full stack as well! Email: inquiries@semanticfish.com Website: semanticfish.com

bsky hail mary because any second not spent on linkedin is a second to be cherished: i’m booking work in for july/august and would very much like to work with nice people on nice things. if you have any reccs then pls let me know thanks love ya x

Working in tech was never easy, but the past few years have been especially hard. Professional resilience is one of those "soft skill" topics rarely discussed, I think it's especially relevant now. Here's my contribution, a framework I wish I had from the start. stevenwoodson.com/blog/profess...

Professional Resilience: Lessons from 25 Years in Tech

Build your personal Resilience Reservoir: tools and habits that help you recover with less stress and more confidence.

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just a little fyi, if you might be hiring for a research guided, human centered design leader, I'm just sitting right here, waiting for some product org to have a vision beyond the current AI hype cycle. We can design a better way of working and delivering a quality, user-centered product.

Karen VH@designinginward.bsky.social · last mo.

I am starting to feel that being truly human centered has made me essentially unhirable in the current job market.

ProTip™️: If you procrastinate doing something for long enough, sometimes it sorts itself out. I had a note-to-self to check out a new software dev app, by the time I opened it up again today I noticed the company was acquired and the app is being sunsetted.

Ferris Bueller: Life Moves Pretty Fast Quote

Alt: Ferris Bueller lying in bed looking directly at the camera and saying "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."

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Early Bird tickets are now on sale until 31 July or until they are sold out! There aren’t many In-person tickets left for the general sale. Make sure you get yours as soon as possible so you don’t miss out on what promises to be an amazing day. 2027.stateofthebrowser.com/tickets/

Explain your @ I have little imagination when it comes to naming things. I'm also weirdly proud of using my full name on the internet, take that society!

⭑ salma@whitep4nth3r.com · 2mo ago

Explain your @ i am not white i am not a p4nth3r alas i do not know what a p4nth3r is either i am also internet

The amazing Crystal Preston Watson is organizing a Disability Pride Comedy event in Denver Help make it happen! www.kickstarter.com/projects/197...

Accommodate This: A Night of Disability Pride Comedy

Help us fund ASL interpreters, CART captioning, and inclusive instruction for our night of comedy celebrating Disability Pride month.

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WDC is back! WDC2026 is taking place on October 9, 2026! We return to The Watershed in Bristol, UK. With awesome speakers: @joshtumath.uk @amyhupe.bsky.social @paavandesign.com @cjforms.bsky.social @duncanpetrie.com @hidde.blog AND MORE TBC! Tickets are just £99! webdevconf.com

WDC2026 - October 9 2026, Watershed, Bristol, UK | Web Developers Conference

WDC is the web design and development conference based in Bristol, taking place in autumn each year.

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It took me 1 try to guess who @aubreysambor.com was @mystery-mutual.bsky.social mystery-mutual.fly.dev

Hi BlueSky pals 📣 Having just completed a fun project with the folks at Clearleft, I’m on the lookout for my next project. I’m open to part-time or full-time contracts outside IR35 and I can help you with: - design systems consultancy & management - content design - design systems documentation

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Content design and design systems consultant

amyhupe.co.uk

Tomorrow is Global Accessibility Awareness Day and I'm launching a Kickstarter for Accommodate This: A Night of Disability Pride Comedy July 5 | RISE Comedy Denver, CO Improv for Every Body (beginner class), Improv in the Dark A Sensory Room Experience Lab. ASL + captions throughout the night

Accommodate This: A Night of Disability Pride Comedy

Help us fund ASL interpreters, CART captioning, and inclusive instruction for our night of comedy celebrating Disability Pride month.

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Are they called box trucks because they're shaped like boxes, or because their main utility is in the transport of boxes? 🚚

I’m opening up sessions for individual accessibility coaching soon! ☺️ We can work through something you’re stuck on, general questions, reviewing something you already have, brainstorm, chat about resources. Topic examples: design, dev, content, workflows, team norms, design systems, testing.

"Losing the ability to reason" is the scariest part of Gen AI to me. I've been comparing it to calculators, how often do we do the math anymore? Expand that to anything we can fit in an LLM chat, factor in that answers can be dangerously wrong, and no due diligence to realize when it happens.

Sara Soueidan@sarasoueidan.com · 3mo ago

"Children are “cognitively offloading” difficult tasks onto AI; [..] The result is a phenomenon researchers call “cognitive debt” or “atrophy,” where users defer mental effort through repeated reliance on external systems like large language models." fortune.com/2026/02/24/s...

Coming to Liverpool in spring 2027, Viewport is a conference about the web, the people who build it, and the people we build it for. Follow for updates, and sign up for our mailing list. No spam, we Promise.resolve();

Viewport 2027 — An independent conference about the web

An independent conference about the web, the people who build it, and the people we build it for. Liverpoo, Spring 2027.

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Finally got around to adding Bluesky to my blog... and then blogged about it. Built on 11ty, supports Likes, Reposts, and Replies (with basic threading). Lots of implementations out there, but mine grabs once per build, not every page load on the client. 🚀 stevenwoodson.com/blog/adding-...

Adding Bluesky Activity to an Eleventy Blog

How I added Bluesky likes, reshares, and responses to my blog posts in Eleventy using the Bluesky API.

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