iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Dan Keck @dankeck.a11y.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

Mindless casual games on my phone are fun, but the games I find on the Google Play Store are loaded with ads and IAPs. But now a developer named @sidhant947 has started releasing simple, high-quality casual mobile games. They're free and open source and […] [Original post on a11y.social]

Mobile game with a 8 by 8 grid of fruit icons. There are red apples, yellow lemons, green pears, blue blueberries, and purple grapes. There are at most 2 of the same color in a row, either horizontally or vertically. The grid is superimposed by the word "sweet" in all caps with an exclamation point. The top of the screen reads "Zen Mode" with a back arrow, a restart icon, and a current score of 1200 points.

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Dan Keck @dankeck.a11y.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

Close enough! Go to mydialect.us to generate your own USA dialect map. My results read: "Your dialect map Redder areas talk more like you; bluer areas least. You talk most like someone from Nebraska — about 54% of your answers match a typical resident […] [Original post on a11y.social]

Map of the USA, with bands of colors ranging from blue for "least like you" to red for "most like you". The reddest parts are the middle mountain to great plains area: Nevada, Utah, Colorado, and Nebraska, as well as the tri-state area of Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio. The bluest area is New England.

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Dan Keck @dankeck.a11y.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

Last week I ordered some equipment for pickup at Micro Center. It was a big surprise when I showed up in the morning and saw a thousand people lined up to get in. The line extended around the back of the store and around temporary barriers, like a theme park […] [Original post on a11y.social]

Coffee mug on a counter. This side reads "Micro Center Columbus", featuring a silhouette of a city skyline and logos for Dell, HP, Intel, and Lenovo.

Coffee mug on a counter. This side reads featuring a drawing of the State of Ohio made to look like a circuit board, with a chip where Columbus is located. Also there are logos of Samsung and Western Digital, and the handle has the word Columbus written in cursive.

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Dan Keck @dankeck.a11y.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/05/2026

@ardalis mentions an Amazon policy from 2002, and then asks how many in the crowd were not even born yet in 2002. Several hands go up. #StirTrek

The Maitland couple from the movie Beetlejuice, dressed in formal wear and bathed in a green light. They look old and decrepid; their skin is pulled tightly, revealing their skull structure; they are withering away.

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Dan Keck @dankeck.a11y.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/04/2026

Fun logo for the Stir Trek software conference this year. In previous years, the day ended with a new release movie (usually a Marvel movie). This year, instead, there's a selection of several older genre films. The 2026 Stir Trek logo reflects that, using […] [Original post on a11y.social]

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Dan Keck @dankeck.a11y.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2025

14 June 2025 is World Blood Donor Day. "Blood donation is a collective effort and a powerful act of solidarity. By coming together as a community of donors, we ensure a steady and safe blood supply for all who need it. Anyone, anywhere, who needs a transfusion […] [Original post on a11y.social]

Poster for World Blood Donor Day by the World Health Organization. The text reads: 14 June 2025; give blood; give hope; together we save lives. Surrounding the text are bright cartoon drawings of several dozen people of various demographics, smiling and looking forward, a few of whom are receiving blood transfusions.

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Dan Keck @dankeck.a11y.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/04/2025

Digital badges have come to the Fediverse! Courtesy of @badgefed . Each badge comes with a verification link. Here's the link for my "code contributor" badge: badges.vocalcat.com/grant/badgesvoc… #BadgeFed […] [Original post on a11y.social]

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Dan Keck @dankeck.a11y.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/03/2025

Two years ago at #CSUN I learned about what became my favorite browser extension, BeeLine Reader. I've been a subscriber ever since. It's easy to set up on desktop, but has been some struggle to get working on Android. But this week I discovered it works with […] [Original post on a11y.social]

A paragraph of text in black, red and blue. Each line ends with a particular color, and the next line starts with that same color, fading into a different color across the line.

The paragraph reads:

Suffering from screen fatigue? We’re here to help! BeeLine Reader makes reading on-screen easier, faster, and more enjoyable. We use a simple cognitive trick — an eye-guiding color gradient — to pull your eyes through long blocks of text. This helps you read more effectively and maintain your focus better.

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Dan Keck @dankeck.a11y.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/02/2025

Surely I'm not the only one who hears this in my head anytime someone mentions the AI product "Claude." #AI #LLM #Claude

The character Peridot from the cartoon Steven Universe on a big screen looking down angrily and pointing at the protagonists

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Dan Keck @dankeck.a11y.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/01/2025

January is National Blood Donor Month in the #USA. Human blood is needed daily, but there is no artificial blood. It can't be grown in a lab or on a farm. If the blood bank will take yours, consider giving. If not, boost in case your friends can!

Four scenes of people donating blood: U.S. President Jimmy Carter, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, actor Paul Rudd, and actor Robin Williams

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Dan Keck @dankeck.a11y.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/01/2025

Me when the podcast guest reveals to the audience that computer game software was once sold on cassette tapes!

Two human skeletons sitting side by side. One appears to be wringing its hands, and the other has its legs together and is holding its knees.

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Dan Keck @dankeck.a11y.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/12/2024

The "going out of business" signs have gone up at our local Big Lots discount shop. #BigLots #Retail #Ohio

An empty orange shopping cart with the words Big Lots sits in a parking lot in front of a shop. A sign above the wide sliding entrance doors reads "Big Lots Entrance." Between that sign and the sliding doors is a vinyl banner that reads "Closing" in huge letters. Two big signs are posted on the doors. One reads "store closing" and the other reads "Entire store up to 25% off." The pavement of the parking lot has numerous cracks.

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Dan Keck @dankeck.a11y.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/12/2024

Have you remediated a PDF file with Acrobat? Have you ever accidentally clicked "Autotag document" and wiped out your manual tagging? If so, please consider voting to remove this action from the context menu. #Acrobat #PDF #Accessibility […] [Original post on a11y.social]

In Adobe Acrobat, the context menu when right clicking on a tag in the tags pane. The menu item named "Autotag document" is highlighted.

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Dan Keck @dankeck.a11y.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/12/2024

I switched from Windows to Linux for personal home use a few years ago. Here's a hot tip. After running OpenSUSE Tumbleweed for a while, I moved to OpenSUSE Leap and love it. Everything works just the same, but updates are significantly faster. #OpenSUSE #Linux #Windows

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