Heather Buchel

@heather-buchel

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: Web:

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Heather Buchel@heather-buchel· 10d

Instacart, please stop showing me AI generated food for your slop recipes. Its so off putting.

AI generated images of classic eggs Florentine, breakfast sandwich and pizza where everything looks weirdly plastic and shiny and uncanny

Heather Buchel@heather-buchel· Jul 18

I like when book authors add a little message in the beginning and I want to do that for my website besides my stupid little "hi im Heather" intro.

A page from the eye of the world, the wheel of time by Robert Jordan which reads: To Harriet Heart of my heart, Light of my life, Forever.

Heather Buchel@heather-buchel· May 22

Sometimes the new dog's tongue just slightly sticks out and we like to think shes having the biggest think she can possibly muster with her single brain cell.

A white pit mix looking slightly off skew from the camera with just the tip of her tongue sticking out

Heather Buchel@heather-buchel· May 4

Speaking of violins, this happened today when I went to practice, which sort of tracks since it has never been re-haired in the 20 or so years since I bought it.

A black bow laying on top of a keyboard. The hair at one end has come completely un glued from the bow and is separated.

Heather Buchel@heather-buchel· Apr 28

I was just using my practice electric violin because i was worried about the noise but missed my acoustic so I took it out and got it in working order again. Its amazing to me how violins seem to hold a memory to them. Way easier to tune. As if it wasn't sitting on a shelf for the past 5+ years.

A black electric violin sitting in a blue violin case with a pair of cheap thin headphones

A warm red/brown violin sitting in a dark blue violin case with a shoulder rest and a bow. Some of the strings are a little loose

Heather Buchel@heather-buchel· Apr 28

Also I got all these books!!!! Some are re-purchases and two are new.

4 music books laying on a wooden floor including kreutzer's forty two studies or caprices, wohlfahrt's sixty studies for the violin book 1, and introducing the positions volume 1 and 2 from Harvey s. Whistler

Heather Buchel@heather-buchel· Mar 26

OK the question of the century with this one though

The text: which is more thrifty? Followed by two painted chickens. One is very rotund, and the other is very slender, in a walking pose

Heather Buchel@heather-buchel· Mar 11

Here is Sabrina's big dumb face, love her so much.

A white with gray markings Staffy/pit mix laying on a mustard colored sofa with her big face pointed right at the camera.

Heather Buchel@heather-buchel· Feb 18

"warcraft is so soft now"

A still from the Liadrin animated short, All that is sacred. Liadrin's father, eyes raised to the sky, is crying out against a swirling dark blood red backdrop, with the caption: [screams]

Heather Buchel@heather-buchel· Feb 17

Nah you're not getting me with that.

Kyrian Aspirant says: The bells of Bastion will calm your soul. Listen, and be at peace.
Image of Greeter Mnemis says: The vespers of Bastion are no ordinary instruments. Their voices bolster the spirit and draw forth the lingering burdens of one's former life.

Heather Buchel@heather-buchel· Feb 16

The "give up your past life completely and live a new ordered life"? INCREDIBLY CREEPY. Made even creepier by Bastion looking like a beautiful paradise with golden rolling hills and blue skies. They cooked on this one.

Screenshot from in game World of Warcraft. A player is flying on a winged mount over Bastion. Bastion is covered in golden rolling hills, teal and purple trees. Set against a backdrop of a pretty blue sky with soft white fluffy clouds and towering castle like structures just slightly obscured, floating in the sky in the distance.

Heather Buchel@heather-buchel· Feb 9

Been getting asked about tooltips a lot at work lately and now I can't stop finding useless tooltips. Like this one from Google Drive.

A button that says "Catch up" which has an activated tooltip that also says "Catch up"

Heather Buchel@heather-buchel· Feb 1

I'm still very slowly reading the Silmarillion because I only read it when I get out of the house. Melkor lying in his parole hearing is very funny to me.

An excerpt from the Silmarillion: Then he looked upon their glory and their bliss, and envy was in his heart; he looked upon the Children of Ilúvatar that sat at the feet of the Mighty, and hatred filled him; he looked upon the wealth of bright gems, and he lusted for them; but he hid his thoughts, and postponed his vengeance.

Heather Buchel@heather-buchel· Jan 14

More and more convinced that the biggest use for genAI imagery is for people's powerpoint presentations because that's the best example they could come up with.

A popover from Glean that reads "Glean can generate images now
Let's see how it works: we'll make an image of the animal that best represents your work style." with four AI generated illustrations of a giraffe, a dolphin, an eagle, and a fish.

Heather Buchel@heather-buchel· Dec 7

Ok, worked on the outside of my house in #WoW after collecting some things. 200 isn't a *lot* of outdoor budget, but if you just focus on one area you can do pretty neat things. Like, don't look at the back of my house lol.

a house with peaked roofs, set infront of an autumnal forest background and pink and orange sunset skies. The front of the house is covered in stone and purple and dusky green trees. Fountains set amongst the trees glow with a subtle blue and green color. Dusky pink flowers are scattered amongst the trees and house.

Heather Buchel@heather-buchel· Dec 2

Bro I just started a completely blank document. What could I possibly need you to generate or help me with at this moment. When I clicked create document it asked me to beautify the document. BEAUTIFY WHAT. WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE.

Two AI sparkle buttons in a blank Google Doc. The first says "Generate document", the second "Help me write", followed by the usual Google doc cursor options for "Templates" and "More".

Heather Buchel@heather-buchel· Nov 28

Spent Thanksgiving with wonderful people at our local place who host every year for friends. Probably the best Thanksgiving I've had in a very long time.

A bar backlit with purple, pink, and blue lighting. On the bar counter are catering trays full of food and plates. Lining the bar are people filling their plates. A tin roof with vintage bar lights hang overhead.

Heather Buchel@heather-buchel· Nov 8

We got a 2nd dog last week. Her name was Lennox, from her foster mother, but we kept saying Linux and it was pissing us off. So now she is Sabrina. She didn't really respond to her name before anyways, lol.

A staffy mix 1 year old, mostly white with gray markings around her face and ears, curled up on a knit gray blanket

Heather Buchel@heather-buchel· Oct 21

I really want to know who is using this, for what part of their job, and if their job is maybe not meaningful.

Screenshot of the Google Drive UI which has an Ask Gemini toggle at the top. Expanding it shows three options: Summarize this shared drive, Ask about this shared drive, Light highs and lows of each file

Heather Buchel@heather-buchel· Oct 10

They literally can't stop putting fucking sparkle AI buttons on every damn thing. I hate it so much. I don't need AI assistance when I'm in the dev tools inspect element tab. I don't need that. I don't know who asked for this. Why the fuck does everything need a fucking AI assistant?

Line of HTML code from the Chrome devtools inspect element tab which is being hovered over which causes an AI help button to show in the bottom right of the line of code

Heather Buchel@heather-buchel· Oct 7

I don't think a piece of mail has made me so giddy to open in like, idk years. Thanks @jennschiffer.com

Several pieces of art and stickers laying on cardboard shipping material, mainly a large airbrushed jack-o-lantern against a blue sky with spooky ghosts around it, and a pixel drawing of a woman with blue hair and pink lips' the rest of her face is obscured

Heather Buchel@heather-buchel· Oct 3

I got so mad about this, I forgot I opened up this photo to tell my partner to make sure to change his druid appearance in WoW to be a bat because it's Halloween!!!!!! very important stuff going on here!!!!

A druid in bat form in the game World of Warcraft. It's basically a big ugly bat with really long fangs, long pointy upright ears, and long claws on its feet.

Heather Buchel@heather-buchel· Oct 3

I'll literally never remember what these icons are when you open a photo on Windows. I have to hover over them every single time to find the one that lets you crop and resize (the one in the middle). chat is this UX?

A series of 5 icons, all various shades of blue, purple, and rainbow colored. All with ambiguous icons/shapes, and they all open the photo in another program (from left to right: Copilot, browse, edit with designer, clipchamp, and onedrive)

Heather Buchel@heather-buchel· Sep 26

I am ready to consume untold amounts of this.

2 liter bottle of red cranberry ginger ale canady dry

Heather Buchel@heather-buchel· Aug 29

Traumatized by AI sparkles so immediately, no. I don't even want to click it to see what it is. What fresh hell awaits me? No, thanks.

Screenshot of the Github UI that has a sparkle emoji and a link that says "Try the new experience" next to the Edit button and Code dropdown menu.

Heather Buchel@heather-buchel· Aug 26

Did I post this shirt before? Oh well here it is again.

A black tshirt with white text that says Destroy AI alongside an illustration of a character beheading a robot that is laying in a pile of green go, the character is holding up the robots head with wires dangling out.

Heather Buchel@heather-buchel· Aug 20

I mean, it has to be the Arathi empire, right? Like, I'm guessing Liadrin prayed so hard the Light answered by allowing them to portal through the Sunwell? It at least looks like the same soldiers from the original War Within cinematic when Faerin is in front of them.

A still from the cinematic in the original post. Lorthemar and Liadrin are leading the charge of an army of soliders who are wearing gold, silver and white armor.

Faerin, from the War Within cinematic. She is standing in front of an army of soldiers. She is wearing white and gold armor with flame coming out of her shield and shoulder armor.

Heather Buchel@heather-buchel· Aug 16

Every so often the #WoW story tellers just slip a little bit of text into a clickable item that just crushes your soul a little, no big deal.

An excerpt from a clickable item in World of Warcraft called "I have Become Void!" which reads: I can't hold you. Not for thousands of years. I see you every day and you are covered in those wraps. I've forgotten your face. I've forgotten my face. I'm just a mask. Was I always a mask? What was ever me? Are you still you? Is the energy you? I don't think so.

Heather Buchel@heather-buchel· Aug 13

Anyway, here is Pepper doing her best trick, which is napping on pillows. The best girl.

A brindle dog, laying on her side with her head snuggled on top of a cream colored pillow, her eyes are mostly shut.

Heather Buchel@heather-buchel· Jul 25

Hello I have finally left my house.