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“Of all the cruel tricks in software engineering, this has to be the cruelest. Most of us entered this field because the machines are so much more logical than people. And yet, even when you’re writing code explicitly intended for the machine, you’re still writing. For other people. Fallible, flawed, distracted human beings just like you. And that’s the truly difficult part.” https://blog.codinghorror.com/coding-its-just-writing/

—@codinghorror

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I really don’t understand why braille is so expensive. I’m not even talking about multiline refreshable braille displays or whatever the new tech craze is. I just mean printing braille on a surface. The thing that makes braille the most useful. The Perkins braille writer is $800–not the new one that’s supposed to be modernized, the one I went to school with that’s existed since the ’50s. The new one is 2000 dollars! Or the LoganTech thing you can type on to make labels, that’s $1100! Why?

—@objectinspace

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In reply to @chris.

@chris @shawnhooper Spotify for me was the exception to my not tying accounts together rule, because my cell carrier was involved at the time but doing through their site meant that you had to use a social log-in and I was already extracting myself from Twitter at the time so I had to go with Facebook or no account for me. Yeah it's one of two online things I'm still frustrated about.

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House GOP: There’s no such thing as “systemic racism”, it’s a myth.

Also House GOP: “The military was never intended to be, you know, inclusive.” This amendment will block all military funding until the Pentagon gets rid of these woke diversity programs. “And it has nothing to do with colored people”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/14/gop-lawmaker-says-he-misspoke-referring-colored-people-house-floor/

—@kennwhite

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I’m exhausted and kinda grumpy so I probably shouldn’t post this today but I will. We as blind people want to have our pictures described to us, which is great. But why then are we posting audio without descriptions of what the audio contains for those who can’t hear? We know what it’s like, so why are we passing that along to others? And we have plenty of characters so there’s no reason for links without any additional text. Too often we don’t think beyond ourselves.

—@technolass