Since I am currently unemployed, I have time to polish up my portfolio and build some smaller new projects that hopefully help me in finding a good job. One such small project was not quite thought through before I started. I decided that since emoji are "allowed" in URLs and emoji 13 added a transgender pride flag, I wanted a website with that emoji in its url. It did not go quite as planned..
read more..On the first day of rC3 I held a talk on how to get started with accessible web development. In this post I want to talk a bit more about it, link some "further reading" and publish my slides.
read more..Today is Friday the 13th in a year that for many is spooky enough as is. That is why I decided to write a little scary story based on **real life events**
read more..When discussing weather or not to spend time and effort into making products accessible, it's common for management to say that accessibility is not the priority right now and that it's going to be patched in at a later time. However, I believe that even a minimum viable product has to be accessible and that anything that isn't is not viable. -Especially considering that this later time at which accessibility is patched in likely will never come because other things have a higher priority. In this post I want to show my view on how to develop software that can be used by as many people as possible.
read more..Other people have written about this as well, but I thought I might show my perspective on why icon fonts shouldn't have been used 5 years ago and certainly should not be used today.
read more..Every couple of weeks there's a huge wave of sign ups on the fediverse, caused by twitter being.. how to put this nicely? ...twitter. Sadly most people don't actually stay on fedi because it is, in fact, not twitter. In this post I'm trying to share my perspective as someone who abandoned twitter for good and try to give a few hints on how to actually stay.
read more..I know, this blog is nothing special, design wise (otherwise as well but that might change) but I wanted to write a short post talking about why I designed it this way. The "idea" for this came to me when I randomly came across someone else's blog that looked pretty much exactly the same.
read more..This year I was finally able to attend the chaos communication congress for the first time in my life. While there, I wrote a blogging software - the one you're looking at right now. Because a blog without any posts looks.. let's say not too great, here's a little "diary" of my experiences at 36c3.
read more..If you want to get in touch, write to contact(at)dysphoric.dev.
If you have found a security vulnerability I would be extremely thankful if you could mail me at
security(at)dysphoric.dev.
I am currently not in a financial situation where I can pay out big bug bounties but I will definitely
invite you to a mate or something
if we ever meet.