Skip to content
Amanda Unvarnished
  • Home
  • ABOUT
  • NOW
  • On This Day
  • Hebrew Date Converter
  • Zmanim (halachic times)

Category: Daily

note
User Avatar of Amanda CAARSON Amanda CAARSON
· 13 Shevat 5778 (Monday 29 January 2018) · 1 minute to read

My kingdon for blind people not starting a podcast that has something to do with tech. God I am tired of blind people and podcasts to do with tech. There are other subjects in the world FFS, and it would be nice to see educated blind people talking about something other than tech.

27 Comments
note
User Avatar of Amanda CAARSON Amanda CAARSON
· 12 Shevat 5778 (Sunday 28 January 2018) · 1 minute to read

Wil and Denise have not seen “The Princess Bride”. I must fix this. It is imperative that I fix this.

48 Comments
note
User Avatar of Amanda CAARSON Amanda CAARSON
· 9 Shevat 5778 (Thursday 25 January 2018) · 1 minute to read

People adding special characters to filenames and then wanting them linked on their websites? Wolves. People adding spaces to filenames and then wanting them linked on their websites? That’s right, wolves.

5 Comments
note
User Avatar of Amanda CAARSON Amanda CAARSON
· 8 Shevat 5778 (Wednesday 24 January 2018) · 1 minute to read

It’s not even 9AM and I already have far too many browser windows open.

4 Comments
note
User Avatar of Amanda CAARSON Amanda CAARSON
· 7 Shevat 5778 (Tuesday 23 January 2018) · 1 minute to read

It looks like the Android V. iOS wars are popping up in the blind community again, so here’s my take. I love free (libre) open source software. I truly do. But free is not automatically better than proprietary,and with regard to iOS V. Android, accessibility is not subjective. We have standards by which to measure the accessibility or lack thereof of software, and while Android has improved, it is not yet at the same level of accessibility as iOS is. While there are some details of accessibility which are subjective, accessibility as a whole as it pertains to the removal of barriers faced by people with disabilities when using software and websites is not subjective. It doesn’t mean different things to different people. As of right now, Android’s accessibility continues to lag behind the accessibility of iOS, and Android users who insist on saying otherwise are fooling themselves.

30 Comments
note
User Avatar of Amanda CAARSON Amanda CAARSON
· 7 Shevat 5778 (Tuesday 23 January 2018) · 1 minute to read

I’ve taken ownership of my RSS feed reading by installing PressForward on my personal site and importing all feeds from my WordPress.com reader. Next step: Taking control of bookmarking. Attempting to see if I can get a feed of my Pocket content. #indieweb

2 Comments
note
User Avatar of Amanda CAARSON Amanda CAARSON
· 7 Shevat 5778 (Tuesday 23 January 2018) · 1 minute to read

All right Spotify, let’s get something straight. If I choose one of my playlists that I’ve curated, and hit shuffle on it, you don’t get to insert your Goddamn music discovery algorithm into it. Leave my music alone.

7 Comments
note
User Avatar of Amanda CAARSON Amanda CAARSON
· 6 Shevat 5778 (Monday 22 January 2018) · 1 minute to read

Dear NFB: Using the government shutdown as a marketing opportunity for your Washington seminar is disgusting. People who work every day to serve this country, often without acknowledgement, have missed a day’s pay and have had to deal with the added stress of not knowing how they were going to keep their families fed or the lights on. And you choose this as a gimmick? You couldn’t possibly sink any lower.

28 Comments
note
User Avatar of Amanda CAARSON Amanda CAARSON
· 6 Shevat 5778 (Monday 22 January 2018) · 1 minute to read

Pocket’s implementation of ReCAPTCHA is downright hostile to people with disabilities.

3 Comments
note
User Avatar of Amanda CAARSON Amanda CAARSON
· 3 Shevat 5778 (Friday 19 January 2018) · 1 minute to read

Deer population is controlled by releasing wolves into an area. All problems should be solved that way. Jaws fans saying NVDA won’t survive because Jaws is professional? Wolves. Two guys in a garage arg.? Wolves. Blindness orgs with inaccessible websites? That’s right, wolves.

8 Comments
note
User Avatar of Amanda CAARSON Amanda CAARSON
· 2 Shevat 5778 (Thursday 18 January 2018) · 1 minute to read

While composing the last business email of the day, I wrote “Attacked” instead of “Attached”. Clearly I’ve had enough internets for today. It’s quit-hundred hours bitches.

5 Comments
note
User Avatar of Amanda CAARSON Amanda CAARSON
· 1 Shevat 5778 (Wednesday 17 January 2018) · 1 minute to read

Dear people bitching about how their prefered stories don’t appear on the homepages of media outlets they love to hate, both right and left: We need to have a conversation about the difference between the front page of a newspaper and the homepage of a website. Apples to oranges.

1 Comment
note
User Avatar of Amanda CAARSON Amanda CAARSON
· 29 Tevet 5778 (Tuesday 16 January 2018) · 1 minute to read

Just your occasional reminder that Kenny G. has never been, is not, and never will be jazz.

20 Comments
note
User Avatar of Amanda CAARSON Amanda CAARSON
· 29 Tevet 5778 (Tuesday 16 January 2018) · 1 minute to read

“smart” speakers like the Amazon Echo are all the rage in the blindness community right now. But there are some significant privacy concerns with these devices, and I’d like to see some discussion about that coupled with all the hype and recommendations to blind consumers.

27 Comments
note
User Avatar of Amanda CAARSON Amanda CAARSON
· 27 Tevet 5778 (Sunday 14 January 2018) · 1 minute to read

Writing a note on a site I have full control of, shoving that note to social media as a status post, and then collecting all the reactions and comments back on my own blog so that the entire conversation is in one place. These are all things that will never get old.

2 Comments
note
User Avatar of Amanda CAARSON Amanda CAARSON
· 27 Tevet 5778 (Sunday 14 January 2018) · 1 minute to read

Dear blindness organizations: I know Google gives you tons of money and everything, but can you not hand them accessibility awards like sexual favors traded in a back alley? Can you at least pretend you have standards other than money? KTHXBye

18 Comments
note
User Avatar of Amanda CAARSON Amanda CAARSON
· 24 Tevet 5778 (Thursday 11 January 2018) · 1 minute to read

Dear Microsoft, your shitty password reset process is the reason why people choose simple passwords. I can’t stand security theater, and this is a shining example of that.

6 Comments
note
User Avatar of Amanda CAARSON Amanda CAARSON
· 22 Tevet 5778 (Tuesday 9 January 2018) · 1 minute to read

I launched the Facebook app on my phone, and … why the hell would anyone want to use this thing? This is a pile of hot garbage.

8 Comments
note
User Avatar of Amanda CAARSON Amanda CAARSON
· 19 Tevet 5778 (Saturday 6 January 2018) · 1 minute to read

PSA: If I help you with your WordPress site in any capacity this year, you can count on me bringing you on to the independent (indie) , web. By stealth if necessary. Inclusive. Open. That’s how we win back the internets from the corporate overlords.

14 Comments
note
User Avatar of Amanda CAARSON Amanda CAARSON
· 19 Tevet 5778 (Saturday 6 January 2018) · 1 minute to read

I think I’m going to get myself a copy of “A Hero’s Call”. I still have Alter Aeon to play, but AHC looks incredibly awesome and I need to make a conscious decision to do more things this year that are fun.

16 Comments
Post navigation
« Previous 1 … 27 28 29 30 31 … 134 Next »

Find Me

Amanda Carson Amanda Carson amanda@customerservant.com
State College , PA United States
micro.blog Mastodon Github WordPress.org Federated version of this site

Indieweb webring links

Previous
An IndieWeb Webring 🕸💍
Next

This site is powered by WordPress and styled with the Autonomie theme