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Jan Maarten

@janmaarten.com

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Inclusive designer, privacy advocate, writer, and future hermit. (he/him) Please don’t add me to your starter packs. Opinions are my own. 🌐 janmaarten.com

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Jan Maarten @janmaarten.com · 08/04/2026

“So we made a model that can break every digital thing you hold dear, and we’re gonna release it to help get more data points for our neural net with the fallout it generates. But we have faith the good guys will win in the end, probably!” This is unhinged.

We believe the same will hold true here too—eventually. Once the security landscape has reached a new equilibrium, we believe that powerful language models will benefit defenders more than attackers, increasing the overall security of the software ecosystem.

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Jan Maarten @janmaarten.com · 10/03/2026

Wasn’t RTO somehow supposed to prevent this sort of thing Who could have possibly foreseen otherwise etc

“We want to operate like the world’s largest startup,” Jassy wrote. “That means having a passion for constantly inventing for customers, strong urgency (for most big opportunities, it’s a race!), high ownership, fast decision-making, scrappiness and frugality, deeply-connected collaboration (you need to be joined at the hip with your teammates when inventing and solving hard problems), and a shared commitment to each other.”

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Jan Maarten @janmaarten.com · 02/03/2026

Boromir, from the part of Fellowship of the Ring where he pleads, "If you would but lend me the Ring"

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Jan Maarten @janmaarten.com · 24/02/2026

If your speaker notes don't include at least four reminders to change your mustache, are you even doing a real conference talk? youtu.be/rV2UFkPuNYI www.deque.com/axe-con/sess...

Speaker card for Accessibility Annotations Around the World, an axe-con 2026 talk by Jan Maarten and Daniel Henderson-Ede

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Jan Maarten @janmaarten.com · 20/01/2026

If you ask “are you okay” does this fluffy old man ask if you’re a beverage?

Wolverine sitting in casual dress, crumpled on the floor surrounded by beer cans. Someone asks: are you okay? to which he responds: are you a beer?

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Jan Maarten @janmaarten.com · 29/11/2025

If you're confused about all the recent component discourse, consider: This, uh, appliance is just as appropriate (and accessible) for doing what should otherwise be one simple job as a toast notification is on anything other than a native mobile platform.

An allegedly-smart toaster with four slices of bread sticking out of the top of it. The entire front of the appliance looks like an ipad screen with two iOS-like interfaces for each pair of gluten-warming slots, complete with a timer and icons with no labels which depict various degrees of toasted bread. Many of them have numbers on them for some reason, which fail color contrast requirements. There's also a few icons which DO have labels for some reason, for types of bread or pastries or waffles, or an En Muffin. Or Gluten free, which also gets its own setting because it's fancy. And then there's also a snowflake icon? Your guess is as good as mine.

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Jan Maarten @janmaarten.com · 15/11/2024

I always wanted to dual-wield. Now we just need @ianhamilton.bsky.social

Twitter screenshot of Ian Hamilton dying over a message that reads: I once had a senior dev ask me the quickest way I could make him care about game accessibility. I told him I could break his hands.

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Jan Maarten @janmaarten.com · 14/11/2024

An orange tabby cat in a blue business suit reading the morning paper. It says: i can’t believe she fuckin buttered jorts

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Jan Maarten @janmaarten.com · 06/11/2024

How “am” I??

Rust Cohle from True Detective taking a drag from a cigarette in his right hand and staring with existential dread into the middle distance as intensely as one can

Rust Cohle from True Detective taking a drag from a bundle of two dozen cigarettes held in both hands and staring with existential dread into the middle distance as intensely as one can. There are extra cigarettes between each finger as well.

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Jan Maarten @janmaarten.com · 13/10/2024

Fox knows what's up

A parody of the laughable Fox News slide that originated the 'attack and dethrone god' Final Fantasy memes. The card title says: WP Engine’s Final Fantasy Strategy. There are 6 bullet points, which read: Get Automattic to give us series A funding. Make Matt Mullenweg’s aging mother think
we are actually WordPress. Be bad at what we do, but not as bad as him. Organize the blogger class. Get all our customers thrown under the bus
of an illegal sign-in checkbox. Attack and dethrone WordPress.

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Jan Maarten @janmaarten.com · 06/04/2024

Grateful you're being loud about this. People need to see it. I'm about to publish a piece critical of Google, Meta, et al. Naively used GDocs to work with others on edits. When final draft was ready, they hit me with the same thing.

A Google Docs error page stating, "We're sorry. You can't access this item because it is in violation of our Terms of Service."

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Jan Maarten @janmaarten.com · 27/09/2023

doing what with your planner??

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Jan Maarten @janmaarten.com · 29/08/2023

at long last, something I can reply to with the most inexplicable thing in mine

Two thinking emoji faces form the breasts on a large yellow torso. A truly cursed reaction image.

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Jan Maarten @janmaarten.com · 06/07/2023

A four panel meme of a cat under some covers.

First panel is a cat's head peeking out from under a blanket. The caption says, "Is it still capitalism outside?"

Second panel, same cat with eyes half closed, fading fast. The caption says, "y'all need to fix that"

Third panel, same cat under the blanket with eyes closed, its two front paws draped over the blanket now. The caption says, "do a revolution or something"

Fourth panel. The caption says "damn". The cat is turned slightly away from the camera, trying to relax and just be, asleep and comfortable. Because presumably there's less capitalism in its dreams.

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