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Andy Van Slaars

@vanslaars.io
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Problem Solver. Developer. Cat Herder. Semi-professional Slack-a-mole player. Screencaster @egghead.io. UI Architect. I write words sometimes on vanslaars.io. he/him.

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Piccalilli @piccalil.li · 26/03/2026
This is not an article that Steve, the author, thinks should exist in a healthy industry, but the shape of our industry — especially right now — makes this sort of article very necessary and hopefully helpful to you in your job. piccalil.li/blog/applyin...
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Applying accessibility fixes with stealth for the greater good
This is not an article that Steve, the author, thinks should exist in a healthy industry, but the shape of our industry — especially right now — makes this sort of article very necessary and hopefully...
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Jim Nielsen @jim-nielsen.com · 26/03/2026
To err is human. To err continuously is agentic.
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Inspirational Skeletor @skeletorinspires.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
If standing up for yourself burns a bridge…fuck that bridge. Says Skeletor lighting the future with the fires of the past.
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Andy Van Slaars @vanslaars.io · 02/02/2026
This is one of the few newsletters I read consistently. Great stuff
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Paweł Grzybek @pawelgrzybek.com · 26/01/2026
Last week I lost my job. It took me a while to process... If you or your company needs an experienced full stack developer who understands how the web works, knows modern tech, communicates well, please reach out. My CV: pawelgrzybek.com/cv/ I'd appreciate if you could share. Thank you.
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CV | pawelgrzybek.com
I’m a software developer with 15 years of professional experience, specialising in building performant and accessible full-stack web applications. I’m passionate about web standards and ethical design...
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Paweł Grzybek @pawelgrzybek.com · 04/01/2026
My favourite recent AI announcements. Vivaldi Browser @vivaldi.com roadmap for 2026 bsky.app/profile/viva... Buttondown @buttondown.com use of your content to power AI buttondown.com/blog/generat... The future of Procreate @procreate.com procreate.com/ai #ai
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Andy Van Slaars @vanslaars.io · 28/12/2025
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.
Enter the wu-tang album cover featuring the yellow wu-tang clan logo and all the individual members with hidden faces
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Andy Van Slaars @vanslaars.io · 19/12/2025
My employer, has been really pushing AI. The other day a dev told someone that the functionality they requested was “impossible” because copilot said so. It was not a complicated request and is in fact quite possible, some (me) would even argue it’s a pretty simple request. 🤦‍♂️
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Andy Van Slaars @vanslaars.io · 01/12/2025
So much tile!
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Andy Bell @bell.bz · 28/11/2025
Oh I forgot to mention on here, Every Layout is doing the annual 50% discount too! every-layout.dev
every-layout.dev
Relearn CSS layout
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Andy Bell @bell.bz · 28/11/2025
Huge collection of fantastic people, making fantastic resources, all for generous prices. Don't miss them!
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Andy Van Slaars @vanslaars.io · 28/11/2025
Up bright (quite dark, actually) and early to go get our Christmas tree. Competition for the big trees here is fierce so we need to get to the tree farm early. Feels like 11° F, so that’s fun 🥶
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Andy Van Slaars @vanslaars.io · 27/11/2025
Today I’m thankful for time away from work to spend with my family. 2025 has been a long, difficult year both at work and in general. I took the entire week off and it’s been a really nice break so far. Time to do some cooking and then eat too much. Happy Thanksgiving everyone! 🦃 🥧
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Andy Van Slaars @vanslaars.io · 05/11/2025
Feeling a bit more hopeful this morning!
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Andy Van Slaars @vanslaars.io · 18/10/2025
The "AI all the things" hype seems to be everywhere but in what world does my mouse need to be AI enabled?
screenshot of the Logitech software that allows me to configure a mouse trying to convince me to try out their AI Prompt builder.
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Andy Van Slaars @vanslaars.io · 03/10/2025
I made the switch to @kagi.com for search. I couldn’t take the ads and AI slop responses anymore. Now I just need to break the habit of scrolling past the top results… they’re actually real, relevant results now 😅
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Tim Vickery @timmytimmytimmytim.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
We live in the ✨ world of tomorrow ✨
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Andy Van Slaars @vanslaars.io · 13/01/2025
It currently feels like 3° out here. 🥶 Keeping it cozy with the fireplace 🪵🔥
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Andy Van Slaars @vanslaars.io · 06/01/2025
I checked out so hard for the past few weeks, I’m pretty sure I’ve forgotten how to do my job. It’ll come back to me at some point this week, probably🤞
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Andy Van Slaars @vanslaars.io · 04/01/2025
Feels like I’m not going outside 🥶
Partial screenshot of the iOS weather app showing 17 degrees Fahrenheit with a feels like temperature of 2 degrees Fahrenheit. Additional text reads “windy conditions expected around 12pm. The lowest Feels Like temperature will be 2° around 11am.”
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Andy Van Slaars @vanslaars.io · 03/01/2025
It’s halfway through Friday and I’m already dreading work on Monday. That’s gotta be a good sign, right? 😩
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Shreyas Mididoddi @shreyascodes.tech · 03/01/2025
CAN WE PLEASE STOP DISABLING ZOOM ON WEBSITES PLEASE!! I can't see very well and if you disable zoon I feel like punching you in the face! Please don't 🙏
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Anthony Iannaccio @mrtonynacho.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Mister Rogers never misses
You know, your own imagination is far more wonderful 

Mister Rogers’ NeighborhoodThan any computer could ever be. You know why?

Mister Rogers’ NeighborhoodYou’re a living human being. And a computer is just a machine.

Mister Rogers’ NeighborhoodHuman beings are far more wonderful than machines.

Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
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Ben Schwarz @benschwarz.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
2025 is the year we start calling “SSR” “a website” again
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Andy Van Slaars @vanslaars.io · 01/01/2025
Our daughter really wanted to be up at midnight so we are anxiously awaiting midnight so we can go to sleep. It’s way past my bedtime 🥱😴. Happy new year!
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Andy Van Slaars @vanslaars.io · 01/01/2025
All the talk about y2k takes me back to NYE 1999 when I spent the night at the national guard armory waiting to be deployed if bad things started happening. I’m glad I was bored that night because all the major issues had been addressed in time.
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Jesse Lawson @jesselawson.dev · 28/12/2024
I just cannot articulate the amount of non-work that happens in corporate tech. So many words being said in meetings, so many documents and write-ups and meetings and messages—and barely ANYTHING gets *communicated*. It’s a sea of performativity, where treading water is confused for swimming.
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zeldman @zeldman.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Shoving AI into it will improve your software like cilantro makes blue cheese and anchovies a better dessert.
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Andy Van Slaars @vanslaars.io · 13/12/2024
We went big on the tree this year. My wife put 5,200 lights on this beast!
Large Christmas tree covered in white lights
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Andy Van Slaars @vanslaars.io · 13/12/2024
We went big on the tree this year. My wife put 5,200 lights on this beast!
Large Christmas tree covered in white lights
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Andy Van Slaars @vanslaars.io · 25/12/2024
Merry Christmas 🎄🎁
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Andy Van Slaars @vanslaars.io · 22/12/2024
I took a little time off for the holidays and I have a sinus infection, as is tradition. When I was a kid, I always had a tendency to get sick when I was off from school. That has continued into adulthood with time away from work. I don’t understand it and I don’t like it.
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Fannie Jack Hammer @0hbetave.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Get a library card even if you're not planning to use it. It impacts their funding.
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David Allen Lambert @dlgenealogist.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Destroy this myth. Please share if you have visited and researched in a library this past year! RT And give a shout out to your favorite library you have ever visited.
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Andy Van Slaars @vanslaars.io · 18/12/2024
Mine was the space shuttle challenger explosion in 1986
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Perfection.
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Andy Van Slaars @vanslaars.io · 15/12/2024
I got my flu and Covid vaccines on Friday. I felt like I got hit by a truck all day yesterday. Woke up feeling fine this morning and everything outside is just one giant sheet of ice. This is what I get for planning to leave my house to do things this weekend. Maybe next weekend 🙃
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Todd @toddl.dev · 12/12/2024
Influencers over on Threads are now suggesting that alt text be used for keywords. Can I just say how much I abhor influencers that do this? Wait, I just did. Don’t ever do that. Ever. Alt text is for accessibility, not marketing. #Accessibility
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Andy Van Slaars @vanslaars.io · 12/12/2024
Brown sugar pecan old fashioned I will be enjoying while we decorate gingerbread houses.
Double old fashioned glass with a large clear ice cube and brown liquid. A candied pecan is on the ice cube as garnish and the bottles of rye, pecan syrup, and chicory pecan bitters are in the counter behind the glass.
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Leo 🏴‍☠️ @leostera.com · 09/12/2024
static types are basically post it notes in your code so you don’t have to remember stuff
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Ben Myers @benmyers.dev · 07/12/2024
📝 New post! `aria-label` and `aria-labelledby` aren't allowed on divs, spans, and other static text elements out of the box, and *most* screenreaders won't announce them. #accessibility #a11y
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Don’t Use aria-label on Static Text Elements
Don’t use the aria-label or aria-labelledby attributes on divs, spans, or other elements representing static/noninteractive text-level semantics, unless you’re also updating roles.
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Andy Van Slaars @vanslaars.io · 07/12/2024
Seeing the Nutcracker with the family
Theatre with the house lights on and a screen depicting a man with an eye patch and top hat in front of snow covered pine trees
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 05/12/2024
twelve billion united states dollars invested in a startup whose entire pitch is "chatbots, exactly like that one startup that is just now finding out there's no real money in chatbots, only more racist"
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Andy Van Slaars @vanslaars.io · 05/12/2024
I’m trying to clean up my old Evernote so I can export the stuff worth keeping before canceling my subscription and I don’t remember the last time I used software this slow… it’s like the web back in the dial up days. Fucking brutal! Thinking about paying just to not do this 😩
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Matthew Justice @arknoodle.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Fun fact, you can make websites both accessible and attractive
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David Neal @reverentgeek.com · 02/12/2024
I’m giving away five free avatars for #GivingTuesday! Comment and share to enter the giveaway 🙂 I encourage you to find a good cause and give!
A sample of “floating head” avatar illustrations surrounding the text “Giving Tuesday Giveaway!”
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Andy Van Slaars @vanslaars.io · 02/12/2024
I just untangled a giant ball of Christmas lights and I think it’s a pretty solid metaphor for how I feel at my current job, just trying to understand the mess and using a lot of profanity while I try to get things straightened out.
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Andy Van Slaars @vanslaars.io · 01/12/2024
I'm "bring hearing protection for the entire family to a concert" years old 🙃. Went to see Straight No Chaser with the family tonight. Great show, but way louder than expected from an a cappella group. They had the sound system in our local theater cranked up. Pocket full of ear plugs FTW!
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Andy Van Slaars @vanslaars.io · 29/11/2024
I just poured my first (incredibly boozy) eggnog of the season. This is from a batch I made in 2022. The aging makes it better. altonbrown.com/recipes/aged...
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Aged Eggnog Recipe | Classic Eggnog Recipe | Alton Brown
A winter holiday classic eggnog recipe, Alton Brown's aged eggnog blends rum, bourbon, and cognac with dairy and nutmeg for a complex Christmas cocktail.
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