There are some cases where even using plain ol’ HTML causes accessibility problems.
Shake – The Typeface with Parkinson's.
Write with Parkinson's is a website that shares the Shake typeface and let's you donate to support research on the Parkinson's disease.
Finally, There's a Social Network Without Any People.
When you download the app, you enter a fantasy world where you're the most popular user—and only non-bot—on a social network.
paged.js (via cabbagetreelabs.org).
Paged.js is a free and open source JavaScript library that paginates content in the browser to create PDF output from any HTML content.
This Is How To Change Someone’s Mind.
Facts are the enemy.
plink-plonk.js – Listen to your web pages.
/*
Copy this into the console of any web page that is interactive and doesn't
do hard reloads. You will hear your DOM changes as different pitches of
audio.
I have found this interesting for debugging, but also fun to hear web pages
render like UIs do in movies.
*/
Lauren Lee McCarthy is an LA-based artist examining social relationships in the midst of surveillance, automation, and algorithmic living.
This week, we look at the ways the internet could have been—and could be—different.
Relevant: Let‘s build a better internet. An Internet powered by the people and for the people.
The Stigmergic Myth of Social Media, or Why Thinking About Radicalization Without Thinking About Radicalizers Doesn't Work.
In areas where cooperation and equality prevails, the Stigmergic Myth is useful. But in areas of conflict and inequality, it can be a real hindrance to understanding what is going on. It can be far less less an expression of collective will or desire than other less distributed approaches, and while fixing the signals and the system is crucial, it’s worth asking if the underlying myth is holding our understanding back.