Hidde
@hidde
Into front-end, accessibility, ethics. I work on standards for NL gov. Co-editor of WCAG 3, contributor of Web Sustainability Guidelines. On W3C's Advisory Board. Blogger: hidde.blog, reader/concert goer: log.hidde.blog, speaker: talks.hiddedevries.nl.
the top layer lets you put elements on top of everything else, it's great stuff. I don't know if the possibility of balloons blocking link usages was sufficiently considered 🎈
Had a lovely chat with @bradfrost.com about music, sustainability, AI, standards, and accessibility. in a podcast near you soon
You might be wondering if EN 301 549 is used anywhere in the world outside Europe? It is! This map shows where (as far as ETSI's HF group know) hf.etsi.org/eu-accessibi...
On 2 July, The Web Meetup in 🇳🇱 Rotterdam has 3 great speakers on web standards, and an opportunity to mingle with fellow lovers of the web. If you're planning to attend, please register here, it's free (just a handful of tickets left): ti.to/w3cab/rotterdam-web-meet
@cydstumpel.nl bravely live coding to show us how to animate popovers with `@starting-style` and friends at The Web You Want
The Web Meetup is happening in Rotterdam, 2 July! Join us for an evening with web, standards and mingling, kindly hosted by Level Level. Sign up: ti.to/w3cab/rotter...
🚄 off to London to rant to the fine UX London folks about why the future of UX is green! we'll cover the W3C's in progress Web Sustainability Guidelines, and ways to reduce the carbon emissions associated with digital products.
Not often do I cite the Vatican in my talks, but when it comes to the pope's views on reducing the environmental impact of current AI systems, I feel they're absolutely right! (Source: www.vatican.va/content/leo-...)
I shared Important Research™️ indicating 95% of people (globally) have something interesting to say. To blog, to make music, to excite us all with what they can uniquely bring. Meanwhile, just 5% of all people know how to post content on their own websites. We need easier ways to publish on the web!
I'm doing a new (ish) talk at “The Web You Want” tomorrow! the-web-you-want.org It is about 5 *essential* ingredients of a web that serves us all If you're in or near Amsterdam, join us! Tickets are free. There's excellent speakers like Marleen, Sanne, Niels and Justus
Heheh, someone wants to optimise AI visibility in my blog post on stealint content by AI vendors hidde.blog/llm-theft-op...
Happy Monday! Today is a good day to tell organisations that are still on / promoting X that its virtual undressing services don't align with the organisations' values. Bonus points if you are a paying customer!
AI generated music made it to Tidal, I saw multiple fake Hiromi albums this week. When I tried to find out how to report, to help them do what's their job, a light gray text appeared. It asked me to rephrase to “help the AI come up with a quick (sic) answer”. ready to go live off grid in the woods
Highly experimental: over the weekend I started publishing a record log log.hidde.blog/records/ Data from Sanity, static site generation in Eleventy. There's no real point other than I love looking at cover art.
started out documenting record collection with @sanity.io . Inevitably, everything I thought that was a string (like artist) ended up having to be an array (because artists make albums together).
Kassa Overall at Bird was brilliant, his new album has 8 jazz interpretations of classic hiphop tracks. #CheckTheRhyme
Carbon accounting and their position in the GHG standards groups allows Big Tech to justify their discourse, explains Valentina Ochner.