@eeeps @jonsneyers Was great to see CVVDP used extensively. Appreciated the innovation in aggregated bitrate-distortion plotting/visualization (Fig 55).

@eeeps @jonsneyers Love this diagram!

Overall some really interesting updates at #WWDC this year. Truly hoping that people are super vocal about how unreadable and bad for accessibility some of the glass effects are though. I’d love for them to refine it (quite a bit) before release.

The Death of Empathy in American Governance.

https://www.meidasplus.com/p/the-death-of-empathy-in-american

Bill Atkinson, Who Made Computers Easier to Use, Is Dead at 74.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/technology/bill-atkinson-dead.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Once you flatten knowledge into prediction, once you replace the actual road of learning with a shortcut that feels smarter than you are, you’ve done more harm than you know.

15/16

How's fascism going for you? https://medium.com/bits-and-behavior/letters-from-the-fascist-front-e9433a7fc38c

This stuff is just hard to believe in a sane world: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/conspiracy-of-silence-how-trump-is-covertly-strangling-billions-in-disease-cure-research/sharetoken/fcecd354-66af-449e-a2f0-f35449037538

Excellent. https://alex.party/posts/2025-05-05-the-future-of-web-development-is-ai-get-on-or-get-left-behind/

The vocal effects of Daft Punk. https://bjango.com/articles/daftpunkvocaleffects/

It’s been a long time coming but Apple’s abusive grip on how developers monetize their apps is coming to an end. After the ruling this week, Spotify & Patreon have announced they will bypass the App Store and Apple’s 30% fee for purchases.

More will follow. Apple’s fastest growing business, rent seeking, just took a major hit.

After trying several broken repos/scripts, I made a Python script for rendering #ShaderToy shaders to antialiased video (or rather, image sequences):

https://github.com/keenancrane/ShaderDump

(This one will surely be broken too someday, but for now it works nicely 😛)

New blog post: “Fit-to-Width Discussions & Feedback”

https://blog.kizu.dev/fit-to-width-discussions-and-feedback/

A bit less than a year ago, I published my “Fit-to-Width Text: A New Technique” article. Since then, CSSWG resolved to start working on it, and, following this, two things happened: a discussion of its potential accessibility issues, and an intent to prototype it from Google.

I have some thoughts, feedback, and ideas about both of these, so here is a post!

#Accessibility #CSSWG #Typography #CSS

On 30 April 1993, CERN's Directors declared that the three components of Web software (the basic line-mode client, the basic server and the library of common code) that Tim Berners-Lee @timbl had first proposed in 1989, were to be put in the Public Domain.

We are grateful to CERN and to Tim for this world changing decision which has enabled the W3C community to create open, accessible, international web standards which make the web work, for everyone.
https://home.web.cern.ch/science/computing/birth-web/licensing-web

Sorry I'm so mean lately, all the people I love are terrified and half the students we've had over to our house are afraid for their lives and a quarter of them are leaving science and meanwhile I work in an industry that is for all intents and purposes totally silent about it and aligned with it; I expect to be just this mean again tomorrow

I thought at the time that it was some weird fluke that Arizona “Public Service” cut off my mother when it was too hot for her to survive without air conditioning, but of course it turns out that it is policy which a local activist has been fighting for years.

http://StopTheAPSgreed.com/

I also have an aversion to begging for re-shares, but I hope folks will do me a solid this time.

Embarrassing APS is the only thing I can do for my mother now.

🍁The people of Canada have sent a clear message to the world that fascism will not stand, authoritarianism will not stand. We will be the rock upon which democracy will hold fast. #ElbowsUp

"In this paper, we systematically explore the impact of color and opacity on depth order perception across eight colors, three opacity levels, and various layer orders and arrangements. Our inferential analysis shows that both color hue and opacity significantly influence depth order perception, with the effectiveness depending on their interaction."

https://youtu.be/kQkxYrbhMa0?si=nH2QuVTSRxBskYxM

We’re launching Ignite: Grassroots initiatives in the #HCI community to uplift and empower researchers around the world who are experiencing challenges to networking, fundraising, and travel opportunities.

You can help!
You can apply for help!
Spread the word.

http://ignite-us.team #igniteus

I receive quite a few emails and report-related issues via GitHub etc.

This is an example of such a reply. I can forgive the vantage, given how prevalent it is. It just frustrates me a little that we have otherwise remarkably clever minds following orthodox understanding, as opposed to pushing for a deeper understanding of how we "see" things:
https://github.com/sobotka/AgX-Resolve/issues/3#issuecomment-2832187829