Inkwell — A federated social journaling platform. LiveJournal meets MySpace, reimagined for 2026 with ActivityPub federation. No algorithms, no ads, user-owned spaces. Self-hostable. - stantondev/...

My thoughts on AI, and what it has helped me achieve

The original Piper, now on iOS and macOS. Contribute to IhorShevchuk/piper-app development by creating an account on GitHub.

Nine “LeakyLooker” flaws in Google Looker Studio allowed cross-tenant SQL access across GCP services before being patched.

Deep Dive into Wafrn: How One Platform Self-Hosts Both ActivityPub and Bluesky Identities 26 February 2026 ActivityPub ATproto Self-hosting Architecture A technical analysis of Wafrn's dual-protocol a...

Your LLM playground on Apple devices. Run open-source AI models locally on your Mac with a native SwiftUI interface. - Techopolis/Perspective-Studio

The medieval church’s acknowledgement that signs were equivalent to a spoken language was transformative for deaf people.

: Company is ‘reshaping our skill mix’ amid long share price slide and SaaSpocalypse whispers

Highest risk of part of tongue being torn off is with temps between -5° and -15° C (23° to 5 °F).

Bluesky Social PBC have given a grant to Emelia Smith, an Invited Expert with the FedID Working Group, to work on FedCM with the goal of making FedCM really work for the decentralized web.

Open Source Speech Language Model. Contribute to HumeAI/tada development by creating an account on GitHub.

An article making the case that the Fediverse is a fantastic communication platform for public institutions - because of its openness, transparency and reach.

Radio Amateurs du Canada réagit à la fermeture du service Radio-Météo au Canada For immediate release | February 25, 2026Radio Amateurs of Canada (RAC) is saddened to learn about the closure of the Weatheradio service provided by Environment and Climate Change Canada.For decades, Weatheradio has been a trusted and resilient source of real-time weather alerts and

“Incredible” is the operative word there.

Self-hosted feedback platform. No accounts required. Feature requests, voting, roadmaps, plugins. CC0 public domain.

At Apple’s Carnegie Library in D.C., Apple brought together leaders, artists, and disability advocates to mark 50 years of making technology accessible to everyone.

Full-featured and highly configurable SFTP, HTTP/S, FTP/S and WebDAV server - S3, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob - drakkan/sftpgo

A few questionable choices but not the official reptile or official soil, which both rock!

One of the few states where this is pretty clear.

Linux software for the Stream Deck with support for original Elgato Stream Deck plugins - nekename/OpenDeck

Once the ultimate geek flex for cypherpunks, Keybase promised to make PGP cryptography accessible to mere mortals. Today, it hovers in the digital ether as a "zombie" app. Here is the story of how a revolutionary open-source identity platform was cannibalized to become Zoom's corporate cleanup crew.

It's a dialogue-free experience focused on a non-speaking child who uses AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication).

Access to Success says its new physical space will help founders build among peers.

Self-hosted abuse detection and rule enforcement against low-effort mass AI scraping and bots.

The gap between performative allyship and genuine disability inclusion isn’t subtle. It’s the difference between changing your culture and changing your logo.

Theresa works for a company that handles a fair bit of personally identifiable information that can be tied to health care data, so for them, security matters. They need to comply with security practices laid out by a variety of standards bodies and be able to demonstrate that compliance.
There's a dirty secret about standards compliance, though. Most of these standards are trying to avoid being overly technically prescriptive. So frequently, they may have something like, "a process must exist for securely destroying storage devices before they are disposed of." Maybe it will include some examples of what you could do to meet this standard, but the important thing is that you have to have a process. This means that if you whip up a Word document called "Secure Data Destruction Process" and tell people they should follow it, you can check off that box on your compliance. Sometimes, you need to validate the process; sometimes you need to have other processes which ensure this process is being followed. What you need to do and to what complexity depends on the compliance structure you're beholden to. Some of them are surprisingly flexible, which is a polite way of saying "mostly meaningless".

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Artificial intelligence is helping blind people access visual feedback about their bodies, sometimes for the first time. The consequences are only just emerging.

LG Electronics has introduced a new accessibility-focused kiosk designed to make self-service technology more inclusive for people with disability and the elderly. The solution was recently showcased at CSUN AT 2026, the global assistive technology conference. The kiosk, developed in collaboration with Dot, an organisation specialising in Braille devices, integrates…

A student-built digital map at the University of Michigan is offering a practical example of what accessible design can look like when it starts with real user needs. The web-based tool, called MGuide, was developed by incoming doctoral student Luna. It takes a different approach to traditional campus maps, focusing…

Step up to the lane. Pixel Bowling is a retro-styled bowling game with simple swipe controls, satisfying pin physics, and a whole lot to keep you coming back. Aim your shot, set your power, swipe in the direction you want the ball to go. Every roll feels different — every spare feels earned. Career Mode takes you from small-town leagues to the national stage across 15 tournaments and 5 Locations. Win matches, climb the ranks, and unlock new balls along the way.

Startup grew out of University of Calgary initiative. |

Thoughts on “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress” by Robert A. Heinlein.

Why (and How) to Hire a Blind Producer - Transom

Unsuccessfully.

Eric O worked for a medical device company. The medical device industry moves slowly, relative to other technical industries. Medical science and safety have their own cadence, and at a certain point, iterating faster doesn't matter much.
Eric was working on a new feature on a system that had been in use for thirteen years. This new feature interacted with a database which stored information about racks of test tubes, and Eric's tests meant creating several entries for racks of test tubes. And that's when Eric discovered that the database only allowed thirty racks. Add any more, it would just roll right back over to one.

SEOUL, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Supreme Court has ruled that major e-commerce platforms must make their websites …

The Perkins Braille Bloom™ connects your Perkins Brailler® to any screen for real-time communication without barriers.

A fast, helpful, and open-source document parser. Contribute to run-llama/liteparse development by creating an account on GitHub.

In this edition: the “Texas handcuffing judge” is now a former one; more lawyers regret using artificial “intelligence”; magicians make an amicus brief appear in the Supreme…

Stream Windows system or per-app audio to Sonos speakers over your local network. - guicn555/RoomRelay

Quarkdown is a modern, open-source, Markdown-based typesetting system for creating papers, presentations, knowledge bases and static websites.

Contribute to WICG/html-in-canvas development by creating an account on GitHub.

I’ve been reading multi-agent systems papers for weeks trying to figure out where the field actually is, and the honest answer is that it moves fast enough that any single paper is a snapshot, not ...

For Zoey Merkestyn, bowling has been therapeutic and a great way to live with her cerebral palsy. Now, she is heading to national tournaments to tell the world anything is possible, if you put your mind to it.

Charts and graphs are a good example of where making content accessible is not always the same as making an image itself accessible.

Open Source before GitHub was reputation-driven and full of friction

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Wired networking in the home and small offices has been pretty stagnant for ages, so upgrading my home from 2.5Gb ethernet to 10Gb meant I had to (re)learn a few things.

Scott Alexander argues that projects aiming to solve debate via technology are fundamentally doomed. Real-world disagreements are driven by divergent value systems, epistemic weightings, and social incentives — not mappable logical syllogisms or simple factual errors. He covers argument mapping failures, the false fact fallacy, user acquisition problems for debate apps, and why 2,000 years of history suggest the problem is human, not technical.

Dr. Frank Hayden, a Canadian researcher whose work was foundational to the global Special Olympics movement, has passed away at the age of 96. His 1960s research demonstrated that exercise is highly beneficial for individuals with intellectual disabilities, spearheading the creation of the Special Olympics.

The New Testament’s transmission differed from the Old Testament due to the early church’s dispersion and persecution. This led to less uniform copies but a greater number of manuscripts. Textual criticism, using principles like the “golden rule,” helps determine the original text by analyzing variants and their origins.

Scribes often made changes to biblical texts, both accidental and intentional. Accidental errors were common due to the nature of early manuscripts, while intentional changes were usually made out of reverence or a desire to clarify or harmonize passages. This tendency led to a longer, smoother text over time, with later manuscripts often expanding titles for Christ, adding phrases, and harmonizing accounts across different Gospels.

The addition of verse numbers to the Bible in the 16th century reflected the longer form of the text found in later manuscripts. As textual scholarship advanced, it became clear that certain phrases were later additions, leading to their removal in modern critical editions. This removal, while sometimes perceived as missing content, does not affect any essential doctrine, demonstrating the faithful preservation of Scripture’s substance.

Oh, dear – another server for the Gemini protocol. What use can that possibly be?

Not specifically?

76-year-old Brian Lendrum, who is blind, spent decades learning to locate and identify birds by sound. But now, he says, as he ages his hearing is “just very, very gradually going down every year.”