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Opportunities for AI in Accessibility

In reading Joe Dolson’s recent piece on the intersection of AI and accessibility, I absolutely appreciated the skepticism that he has for AI in general as well as for the ways that many have been using it. In fact, I’m very skeptical of AI myself, despite my role at Microsoft as an accessibility innovation strategist […]

Intermediate collection avoidance – Jake Wharton

Intermediate collection avoidance 07 February 2024 Given a list of users, extract their names and join them into a comma-separated list. Kotlin’s extension functions on collections make this trivial. users.map { it.name }.joinToString() Writing this in IntelliJ IDEA produces a “weak warning” offering advice. Call chain on collection type may be simplified An intention action […]

Break the Build On Purpose – tyler.io

Isaac Halvorson asked today I have a few hobby programming projects that I like to work on, but I’m finding it increasingly difficult to make substantial progress on them. My free time is limited, and also comes in short, unpredictable bursts, making it hard to maintain a steady workflow. #ParentLyfe For those who have faced […]

Detect Caps Lock with JavaScript

Anyone is capable of having their caps lock key on at any given time without realizing so. Users can easily spot unwanted caps lock when typing in most inputs, but when using a password input, the problem isn’t so obvious. That leads to the user’s password being incorrect, which is an annoyance. Ideally developers could […]

Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra & Plus REVIEWED

On this week’s episode of the Android Central Podcast, Shruti Shekar, Nick Sutrich, and Derrek Lee review the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra, the Galaxy S24 Plus finally coming into its own, Meta shifting from AR to VR, Google’s Super Bowl ad highlighting a life-changing Pixel feature, the new Oura Ring ‘Resilience’ update that assesses your […]