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Morning everybody, welcome to Monday. Today will be a long day over here and Jaws is being annoying already. Need more coffee.

Still don't have exercises automatically coming in from Strava yet, but I do have my TV and movie watchings coming automatically from Trakt, so that's something Sometimes I like to binge-watch TV shows or movies.

Damn. That didn't work. Trying to figure out how to pass the "exercise" microformat with a link to activity since Strava is being a jerk about this and not passing info if it's not a ride/walk/run. &h=entry&exercise doesn't work, so next I'll try &h=entry&kind=exercise. #indieweb #WillMakeThisWork

OK I think I may have figured out how to automate posting of exercises to my website. If this works I'll do a write-up. #Indieweb

Working to Startrek film scores today.

Good news on the overlay article front. Editors say put more of me in it and come out swinging. Will revise tomorrow. This is going to be fun.

Accessibility overlay article out the door for editing. And good thing there are editors because I said bad words in the final paragraphs. No, not the usual four-letter ones. The one that begins with w. And some five-letter ones. Like learn. And basic. I'm probably going to have to write a nicer version but well I read through that whole overlayfacts.org response to the original Overlay Fact Sheet and sort of blew my stack.

Y'all, we have totally been doing this all wrong. It's impossible for average website creators to make accessible websites, not all vendors (TM), and people with disabilities who find overlays unacceptable just need to open our minds or something because machine learning. https://overlayfacts.org/overlay-facts/

So I'm writing an article on accessibility overlays and why they can't make your site accessible, and I know I shouldn't, but I can't help but wonder why anyone would possibly think that something like making sure your website complies with various pieces of accessibility legislation would be as simple as a single line of code. Overlay vendors are mostly at fault for creating this illusion, but the fact is there's a market for it. The businesses eagerly buying it share culpability. 1/n

Morning everybody we made it to Friday let's do this. Also, I need more coffee.

Me: "How is it only 12:30"? Also me: "Shit I still have a bunch of stuff I need to get finished today I'm glad it's only 12:30".

Oh no you don't Chrome, not today.

Happy Blue Beany Day to all those celebrating.

Sometimes I wish I had two soundcards and an external mixer, because trying to get the music volume to screen reader volume ratio just right via my system's soundmixer is hard. But I like listening to music while I work.

Dear Dell Command Update: I know there are updates to install, you've notified me several times within the last hour, please for the love of all that's technical, knock it off!

Well isn't that special! Chrome has this thing that pops up in the sidebar that says "control your music from Chrome" or something similar. It's a long message. Anyway, so you open it, and when you dismiss it like a pro browser user because you've already made decisions about what controls your music, it stops your music and you have to go start it again. Very not nice.

I'm using earcons via my screen reader until the Mastodon client I'm using implements support for filters. At least this way I don't have to hear "RT @" all the time since people are *still* crossposting retweets over here which is super annoying.

If I see one more Cyber Monday email I'm going to scream. Why did this holiday/observance get invented and more importantly, how do we make it all stop