iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Jeremy Keith @adactio.com · 30/09/2026

Journal: Twenty five years of writing on adactio.com Happy birthday to my little corner of the web. 🔗https://adactio.com/journal/22781

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Manuel Matuzović @matuzo.at · 17/09/2026

Friends, it's that time of the year: Once again, I'm asking you to help me create another amazing HTMHell Advent Calendar by writing about HTML. The CFP is open until October 3! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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HTMHell Advent Calendar

Hello, my dear friends of high-quality markup! We're getting closer to the last quarter of 2026, which means that the HTMHell Advent Calendar is getting closer, too. Last year, once again, you contrib...

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Manuel Matuzović @matuzo.at · 28/05/2026

Do your readers a favor and don't use AI to write or help your write your blog posts. We want your articles to sound like you, with your personality, your imperfections, and your quirks.

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Alan Dalton @alandalton.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

“[…] #accessibility is the best creative brief you'll ever get. […] Accessibility gives us […] a set of challenges that force us to push past lazy solutions and find ideas that are smarter, sharper, fully inclusive, and more expansive.” —@uxlondon.bsky.social

2026.uxlondon.com

Piccia Neri is speaking at UX London 2026

A three-day celebration of user experience and digital design.

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Kaz Tsuchiya @caztcha.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Enhancing Web Design: Recognizing Accessibility Issues Now alistapart.com/article/good... ニールセンの10のヒューリスティクスの Recognition rather than Recall を、アクセシビリティを実装するプロセスに当てはめて考えてみる、という考えかた。アクセシビリティを「暗記」の問題ではなく「気づき」の問題として捉え直し、ペルソナを日常的な設計プロセスに組み込もう、という提案。

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Enhancing Web Design: Recognizing Accessibility Issues Now

Explore the importance of accessibility in design and discover how to create inclusive experiences that accommodate all users.

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A List Apart “for people who make websites” 1997–? @alistapart.com · 23/04/2026

Designers are good people. Some designs exclude people anyway. Alan Dalton offers a practical fix: accessibility personas that help you recognize problems while you're designing, not after. Homework included. alistapart.com/article/good...

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Enhancing Web Design: Recognizing Accessibility Issues Now

Explore the importance of accessibility in design and discover how to create inclusive experiences that accommodate all users.

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Alan Dalton @alandalton.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Time for another #DigitalDeclutter, as Cal Newport outlined in #DigitalMinimalism. I’ll be off Bluesky — and other social media — until Easter.

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Alan Dalton @alandalton.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

@emcguane.bsky.social Hi, Elizabeth. I’ve added a link on my “Authors Apart“ webpage to your “Design by Definition“ book, to help spread the word. alandalton.github.io/Authors-Apar...

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Authors Apart

A Book Apart is now closed. I’m trying to track the authors’ preferred ways of making their books available.

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Dan Saffer @odannyboy.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Reflect upon your present blessings—of which every man has many—not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

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Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · 14/11/2025

There's a roundabout in Cork where even during the worst traffic, drivers unfailingly allow others to merge in a "zip" by local custom. Driving through it restores my faith in society, every time. I just found out it's known as the "soundabout", and that's just wonderful.

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Alan Dalton @alandalton.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

—That guy is a woman’s man. —Should we talk to him? —He’s no time for that. —His music’s loud. —Yes, and his women are warm. —Sounds like a good life! —No; he’s been kicked around since he was born. —How do you know all of this? —Well, I can tell by the way he uses his walk.

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Scott Jenson @jenson.org · 15/09/2025

My basic point is that the current AI bubble is going to pop. So what should replace it? I make the case that smaller, more energy-efficient, and more ethically trained models should be used for "boring" tasks. Our job is to solve problems, not look cool.

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Alan Dalton @alandalton.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

“Audiobooks, screen readers, text-to-voice applications – anything can now be turned into robotic but perfectly intelligible audio within seconds. Admittedly, the experience of ‘reading’ in this way is different. […] But it’s still reading, of a kind.” —@hlinehan.bsky.social

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Alan Dalton @alandalton.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

“[@matuzo.at] has too much respect for your intelligence to waste time trying to convince you of something you already know. You already know that #WebAccessibility is important.” —@adactio.com

adactio.com

Foreword to Accessibility Cookbook by Manuel Matuzovic

The foreword to the O’Reilly book on creating inclusive experiences.

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Alan Dalton @alandalton.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Time for a #DigitalDeclutter, as Cal Newport outlined in #DigitalMinimalism: 1. Put aside 30 days for forgoing optional technologies. 2. During this period, explore meaningful activities. 3. Resume using technologies in a way that maximises their value for you. I’ll be off Bluesky until Easter.

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Alan Dalton @alandalton.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

“We’ve moved from humans learning to speak computer to computers learning to understand humans and I, for one, don’t want to go backwards, […]. Let’s make the computers figure out what we want, not the other way around.” —Luke Wroblewski

lukew.com

LukeW | Chat Interfaces & Declaring Intent

There's lots of debate within UI design circles about the explosion of chat interfaces driven by large-scale AI models. While there's certainly pros and cons to...

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Brian Muenzenmeyer @brianmuenzenmeyer.com · 04/01/2025

🤔 Pretty much since the inception of Approachable Open Source, I’ve asked myself and others, “should the book itself be #opensource?” We’ll get to that below. But, let’s not bury the lede. 📗 Read the book at approachableopensource.com/read/ 📑 View the source github.com/approachable...

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Approachable Open Source

A new book by Brian Muenzenmeyer, available paperback or digital

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Alan Dalton @alandalton.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

“Given the boring magic of the original tap, it’s surprising that we frequently encounter taps today that are badly designed. Many of them are so unintuitive and complex it’s now common to see a set of A4 printed instructions next to a tap.” —@benterrett.bsky.social, @publicdigital.bsky.social

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Manuel Matuzović @matuzo.at · 29/12/2024

On day 29 @twogrey.bsky.social shows us what happens if you use `<datalist>` with `type="date"` and `type="color"`. #HTMHellAdventCalendar htmhell.dev/adventcalend...

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datalists are more powerful than you think - HTMHell

A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.

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Dan Saffer @odannyboy.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Reflect upon your present blessings—of which every man has many—not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol

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Manuel Matuzović @matuzo.at · 22/12/2024

On day 22 Daniela Kubesch advises us to stop using the title attribute as a tooltip. #HTMHellAdventCalendar htmhell.dev/adventcalend...

htmhell.dev

PSA: Stop using the title attribute as tooltip! - HTMHell

A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.

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David Sleight @stuntbox.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Anyone have a clear mapping of the metadata/Open Graph fields and fallbacks used by Mastodon, Bluesky, Threads, FB, and X? Feels like a really inconsistent mess across platforms right now. (Don’t get me started on the og:* vs. itemprop thing…)

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