A friend had this old barometer lying around that I snatched up immediately!

It features a thermometer with mercury filling, temperature in Fahrenheit and Centigrade and a barometer going from 28 to 32 in something units.

My grandparents had one of these growing up, I remember using it to figure out the conversion equation from F to C degrees. As well as my Pop staring at it intently, tapping on the display to try and figure out how the weather was fairing.

I guess she's the dungeon master now! Or at least the battle map inspector, doing a fine job.

Conversations I have way too often about accessibility

Really interesting research about how we're feeling in tech right now. Can very much relate to feeling very unstable and burnt out.

https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-tech-workers-are-feeling-in-2026

Last session they broke a window of an inn where a plot relevant NPC was staying. They felt so bad they spent the rest of the session setting up a race for charity and donating 94 gold pieces to the orphanage.

Running a DND game with kids pro tip.

Let them have "Santa" as a follower.

Every time they do something naughty now Santa shakes his head, writes something down and they spend the rest of the session in a haze of doing good deeds for the community.

"Mum I'm going to spend the next three hours generating Pokemon fusions turning Pokemon into swords. Swordemon, sword and sword edition. Where people pick up their Pokemon and duel with them"

In case anyone is wondering what it's like living with a 10 with the autism.

@onsman great talk today at #a11yCamp2025. I learnt a lot about history and language that I hadn't considered. I also deeply agree with the model that it is the responsibility of society to be accommodating, not the individual.

My Last Pass subscription is due for renewal. I've heard some murmurings that it's not the best password manager out there though, is there a better one?

(Not one pass I use it for work and I really dislike the UX)

Managed to get in front of the marketing and copywriters at work to talk about accessibility.

A lot of details I referenced from the awesome resource "books without barriers". It's a free to download book which goes through how accessibility relates to printed media in particular but has a lot of very detailed information that can be applicable to web as well.

https://publishers.asn.au/BooksWithoutBarriers

So last night's DnD session for my son and his mates went pretty much as expected...

Graph inspired by https://youtube.com/@tater_the_bard

Is there any reason why we can't add the images alt text to the meta data? So when we copy and paste the image around the alt text comes with it and we don't have to re-enter it manually?

They say people are drawn to others who have experienced the same types of mental illnesses as they have. That we treat then them how we would have liked to be treated, as a way to heal.

In this essay, I will thus prove why it is healthy for me to marry Shane in all of my Stardew Valley play throughs and why people should stop judging me

I call this child's artwork. "Existential bread"

Got my coffee and ops supervisor ready to help me with my kids computer.

Really need to write a parenting book for modern issues. Chapters like:

How to feign interest in Minecraft

What Pokemon types are super effective against other Pokemon types

How to answer tough questions, like where do babies come from, whilst in the middle of a round about.