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Instead of cutting 6% of its workforce NAB could have reduced all staff work hours by 2hrs and still make $10bn in annual profits.

Kesha Williams at #DDDPerth brings up an interesting point about AI. A prompt is a suggestion, not a command. I think a lot of devs are so used to typing commands they forget that even if it’s happening in your IDE, a chat interface isn’t code. It’s a conversation with a powerful tool about code.

I’m at #DDDPerth today, really looking forward to the web-related talks & closing keynote. I’d love to catch up with old friends & meet new folks (I’m an accessibility expert, ask me anything!) But I have low face recognition & I need new glasses, so you’ll have to spot me & say hi first 😅

#Corpowid and #Skynet Technologies Will Get You Sued adrianroselli.com/2026/09/corp... Though they are actually so laughably bad that they’ll probably just get you blocked. #accessibility #a11y #overlay

😭 look, at least we lost to Brisbane and not some wankers #AFLGF

Pub has a sweeps for the Norm Smith medal, I picked Luke Jackson and Jye Amiss out of the bucket. Pretty happy with that! #AFLGF

At Baillie Place in Perth for a pub lunch and #AFLGF. Mostly Dockers fans but a respectable set of Lions folks too.

Simon talking about systems theory changed how I approach problems at work, and it’s been so helpful. Highly recommend getting along to hear him if you can!

Hey Kirby CMS users - is it easy to write and edit content on a phone?

open notepad type hi this is my website. type here is a link to elsewhere: <a href=“https://sil.kryogenix.org/“>me on Bluesky</a> There, you have a web page. You still need to publish it, but that’s no more difficult than signing up for (and ignoring crazy people on) Facebook, I promise.

My column on how the level of Jobseeker kills people. And those running the economy for over 30 years have decided that is how it should be. www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

Like most other disciplines, accessibility takes practice, time, and patience. No one starts a new endeavor and is instantly excellent at it with nothing to learn. If your beginning goal is absolute perfection, you'll burn out. You'll find excuses to not try. Get started and try.

Oh good, totally not a problem to give disabled people’s data to a company owned by a eugenics fan.

personally I think we should just take the ai doomers at their word and shut it down if they’re telling the truth, well, good thing we shut it down. If they’re exaggerating, well, they shouldn’t have done that

Pietro Gelateria for the win, as usual. Buttermilk and blueberry ice-cream, and raspberry and elderflower stracciatella in a more gelato style.

This is superb. Simon doesn't write much, but when he does, it is so on point, thoughtful and informative. Have a look

It’s sausage o’clock at Bunnings on Father’s Day. Car park is chockers.

Rare photographs of historic Pilbara strike camps shown for first time

Maybe Labor should not put up gas lobbyists as candidates? Just throwing out seeds here, maybe some might take root….

Scrutiny over WA government's decision to 'eco-thin' landmark South West forests

Neither of these pieces mention that the Australian government's plan to mandate renewable energy growth for data centres involves the purchase of offsets that will almost certainly not actually result in a renewable build-out. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08... www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

NVDA 2026.2 Release Candidate is now available! We encourage ALL users to try & give feedback! www.nvaccess.org/post/nvda-20... Highlights: Magnifier, Improved touch gestures, NVDA+x repeats last, Improved dictionaries, Automatic Braille scrolling & more! #NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader

Woodside 'understating' oil spill risk of proposed Browse gas project, opponents say

why isn’t the future the way we thought it would be

I've been taking a low dose of Vyvanse for a week now. Seems to be working for me. I like it! I'm finishing tasks and reading long-form stuff. Side-effects are manageable. It'd be fun to have a hot take on ADHD meds but I genuinely feel just... nice.

Last night I went to a great Friends of Figma meetup. Curtis shared about Designing with Dyslexia, and we heard about highlights of ConFig. www.instagram.com/p/DbChPfNzbU...

🎺🎺🎺 Big news on two fronts 🎺🎺🎺 #DDDAdelaide 2026 Call for Papers is officially open from now until the 6th of September 🎉 #DDDAdelaide 2026 Early Bird Tickets are now available until the 28th of August 🍾 We look forward to seeing all of your exciting submissions for the CFP! dddadelaide.com

Yep. Also applies to Pauline Hanson and Barnaby Joyce in Australia. They only have the first 2 goals, and much less power. But otherwise it's the same process.

BTW the definition of robotics researcher is very broad. "Robotics adjacent" or "robotics aspiring" or "robotics curious" may also apply. "I'm a little botcurious"

If you're new to captioning videos for your content, you might feel as if you don't know what you don't know. Meryl Evans' "Does Your Video Make These 6 Common Caption Mistakes?" is a great resource to help make your captions better. meryl.net/common-capti...

The state of print news competition in Australia is dire, and local and regional news is slowly dying. In a growing and diverse country, this may have horrible consequences for Australian democracy. Read the full report ⤵️ https://theaus.in/4plao5Q

Alcoa's looming WA alumina monopoly could threaten world's only jarrah forests, environmentalists say

Australia: still the #2 exporter of coal www.energyinst.org/statistical-...

Miriam is a world’s leading expert in CSS and works on many specs! Highly recommended to check out her new course:

Web developers, designers, and engineers: what Layout and Rendering features do you need from Safari? Bugs count too, I want to hear what you need?

A "podcast" that is taped and released as video and features famous people is just a talk show that doesn't have to abide by union rules.

I would really love to stop paying for Grammarly. Spelling and grammar often jumble themselves in my head. Does anyone have some good recommendations on alternatives? I never need it on my phone. People I care enough about to text can suck it, lol. I only use it in browsers and apps when I write.

Working on my wife's portfolio website and solved a design problem by using CSS round(). This is a less used yet very useful function! Here is my article about it, and will update it soon with a new use case: ishadeed.com/article/css-...

Day 2 of YOW Tech Leaders in Brisbane - looking forward to chatting about accessibility with you all!

Today I’m at YOW Tech Leaders in Melbourne today - #YOWTLS26 Really enjoying the talks!

@virginaustralia.bsky.social in case no-one's mentioned it yet, the modal "Send boarding pass" isn't working. I can select a passenger and SMS or Email, but I can't enter a mobile number or email address. No error message or anything, just that typing does nothing.

I'll be there, sharing the ways you can move beyond basic accessibility compliance and really embed it in your workplace

Last week, researchers identified code in Meta AI's smart glasses app that could convert faces into unique biometric signatures to identify strangers in public. Just as quietly as they embedded this code, the app’s 6/5 update appears to have quietly removed them. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Just donated to Bush Heritage to buy some of the last untouched eucalyptus forest in the South-West biodiversity hotspot. The area would create a link between private and publicly owned protected lands. www.bushheritage.org.au/get-involved...