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Andy Van Slaars

@vanslaars.io

Problem Solver. Developer. Cat Herder. Semi-professional Slack-a-mole player. Screencaster @egghead.io. UI Architect. I write words sometimes on https://vanslaars.io/. he/him.

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Piccalilli@piccalil.li · 6mo ago

This is not an article that Steve, the author, thinks should exist in a healthy industry, but the shape of our industry — especially right now — makes this sort of article very necessary and hopefully helpful to you in your job. piccalil.li/blog/applyin...

Applying accessibility fixes with stealth for the greater good

This is not an article that Steve, the author, thinks should exist in a healthy industry, but the shape of our industry — especially right now — makes this sort of article very necessary and hopefully...

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Paweł Grzybek@pawelgrzybek.com · 8mo ago

Last week I lost my job. It took me a while to process... If you or your company needs an experienced full stack developer who understands how the web works, knows modern tech, communicates well, please reach out. My CV: pawelgrzybek.com/cv/ I'd appreciate if you could share. Thank you.

CV | pawelgrzybek.com

I’m a software developer with 15 years of professional experience, specialising in building performant and accessible full-stack web applications. I’m passionate about web standards and ethical design...

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Andy Van Slaars@vanslaars.io · 10mo ago

My employer, has been really pushing AI. The other day a dev told someone that the functionality they requested was “impossible” because copilot said so. It was not a complicated request and is in fact quite possible, some (me) would even argue it’s a pretty simple request. 🤦‍♂️

Andy Van Slaars@vanslaars.io · 10mo ago

Up bright (quite dark, actually) and early to go get our Christmas tree. Competition for the big trees here is fierce so we need to get to the tree farm early. Feels like 11° F, so that’s fun 🥶

Andy Van Slaars@vanslaars.io · 10mo ago

Today I’m thankful for time away from work to spend with my family. 2025 has been a long, difficult year both at work and in general. I took the entire week off and it’s been a really nice break so far. Time to do some cooking and then eat too much. Happy Thanksgiving everyone! 🦃 🥧

Andy Van Slaars@vanslaars.io · last yr.

I made the switch to @kagi.com for search. I couldn’t take the ads and AI slop responses anymore. Now I just need to break the habit of scrolling past the top results… they’re actually real, relevant results now 😅

Andy Van Slaars@vanslaars.io · 2y ago

I checked out so hard for the past few weeks, I’m pretty sure I’ve forgotten how to do my job. It’ll come back to me at some point this week, probably🤞

Andy Van Slaars@vanslaars.io · 2y ago

Our daughter really wanted to be up at midnight so we are anxiously awaiting midnight so we can go to sleep. It’s way past my bedtime 🥱😴. Happy new year!

Andy Van Slaars@vanslaars.io · 2y ago

All the talk about y2k takes me back to NYE 1999 when I spent the night at the national guard armory waiting to be deployed if bad things started happening. I’m glad I was bored that night because all the major issues had been addressed in time.

Jesse Lawson@jesselawson.dev · 2y ago

I just cannot articulate the amount of non-work that happens in corporate tech. So many words being said in meetings, so many documents and write-ups and meetings and messages—and barely ANYTHING gets *communicated*. It’s a sea of performativity, where treading water is confused for swimming.