Hidde @hidde.blog · 18/09/2026at work, I'm on a course to become a certified AI compliance officer. Bit of a mouthful… but I'm excited to dive into some of the literature that arrived today! 160
Hidde @hidde.blog · 07/09/2026ready for my workshop! #SmashingConf feeling somewhat underdressed 3201
Hidde @hidde.blog · 11/08/2026Just released: a new version of the W3C's WCAG-EM Report Tool, that aligns it with the recent WCAG-EM 2 publication. w3.org/WAI/eval/report-tool/ 054
Hidde @hidde.blog · 08/07/2026the 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 🎈 040
Hidde @hidde.blog · 24/06/2026Had a lovely chat with @bradfrost.com about music, sustainability, AI, standards, and accessibility. in a podcast near you soon 1130
Hidde @hidde.blog · 16/06/2026You 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... 052
Hidde @hidde.blog · 16/06/2026On 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 013
Hidde @hidde.blog · 10/06/2026@cydstumpel.nl bravely live coding to show us how to animate popovers with `@starting-style` and friends at The Web You Want 081
Hidde @hidde.blog · 02/06/2026The 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... 0106
Hidde @hidde.blog · 02/06/2026🚄 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. 081
Hidde @hidde.blog · 28/05/2026Presentation pro tip: just stick @stevefaulkner.eurosky.social's face on a slide 071
Hidde @hidde.blog · 27/05/2026Not 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-...) 170
Hidde @hidde.blog · 17/04/2026I 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! 020
Hidde @hidde.blog · 16/04/2026I'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 081
Hidde @hidde.blog · 30/03/2026Downside of attending a conference outside the well-regulated continent of Europe is that no laws protect you from unsolicited spam emails afterwards. 🙃 #GDPRFTW 0111
Hidde @hidde.blog · 01/03/2026I don't have proof of everyone I chatted to but I definitely chatted to @matuzo! #SotB26 1180
Hidde @hidde.blog · 24/02/2026Heheh, someone wants to optimise AI visibility in my blog post on stealint content by AI vendors hidde.blog/llm-theft-op... 040
Hidde @hidde.blog · 16/02/2026Happy 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! 1194
Hidde @hidde.blog · 20/12/2025AI 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 5130
Hidde @hidde.blog · 24/11/2025Highly 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. 6181
Hidde @hidde.blog · 21/11/2025started 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). 4120
Hidde @hidde.blog · 13/11/2025#TPAC2025 is also a great opportunity to run into former colleagues and take serious photos with them. Here's Marie-Clarie of W3C developers 2191
Hidde @hidde.blog · 02/11/2025Kassa Overall at Bird was brilliant, his new album has 8 jazz interpretations of classic hiphop tracks. #CheckTheRhyme 010
Hidde @hidde.blog · 29/10/2025Carbon accounting and their position in the GHG standards groups allows Big Tech to justify their discourse, explains Valentina Ochner. 000
Hidde @hidde.blog · 20/09/2025enjoyed this sign on the exit door of a cinema I visited this week 0181
Hidde @hidde.blog · 23/08/2025love how easy it is to add fonts to Kobo's ereaders. Currently trying out Libre Baskerville. tips for affordable and good reading fonts welcomed 250
Hidde @hidde.blog · 12/08/2025case in point: I just had a GitHub issue page not load issues because of some failing GraphQL fetch causing an error in some React component. They used to just load these from the server. But sure, they didn't want to stifle innovation. 120
Hidde @hidde.blog · 11/07/2025📺 Video of my talk at CSS Day is up! It covers how to reduce climate impact at work (if you work in tech) you can watch it on Conffab, courtesy of @johnfallsopp.com conffab.com/presentation... 1103
Hidde @hidde.blog · 04/07/2025I do enjoy the bilinguality of signs here, the French words suddenly click when I see them on the same sign with their Dutch counterpart. axe rouge, rode as. l'industrie, nijverheid. km is harmonised. 310
Hidde @hidde.blog · 04/07/2025as someone whose profession is in (arguing about) naming things, metro station names fascinate me. How do they make them so short and clean? This one, in Brussels, is named Arts-Law (it's at the crossing of arts street and law street) 220
Hidde @hidde.blog · 22/06/2025Little Simz at the Royal Festival Hall was incredible. Live band, Chineke orchestra, Obongjayar, Miraa May, Wretch 32… old and new music, it's creatively such a wide range. 5261
Hidde @hidde.blog · 01/06/2025“Ethics aside, what I like about generative AI…” will be even harder to say for people who have read Empire of AI. Top notch reporting on the good, the bad and the colonialist and disaster capitalist aspects of generative AI and large language models. For ethics you need facts. The evil is banal. 0161
Hidde @hidde.blog · 29/05/2025The web was always intended for blogging (source: www.w3.org/History/1992...) 0100
Hidde @hidde.blog · 13/05/2025I could, but won't, live post all of AI Con. It very clearly explains why human language is different from synthetic text, and this is inherent. 1100
Hidde @hidde.blog · 13/05/2025this morning my preorder of The AI Con arrived, I can't wait to read more! 3101
Hidde @hidde.blog · 06/05/20252020: $deliveryDate = $sentDate + 1; 2025: “The mentioned period is a prediction based on AI” 130
Hidde @hidde.blog · 10/04/2025They printed my article in the Service Gazette that was published for the International User Needs First conference in Amsterdam 🎉 Full text available on my blog: hidde.blog/five-ways-gr... 030