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Derk-Jan Karrenbeld

@derk-jan.com

I complain about (in)accessibility & bad customer support. Helping devs achieve fluency at exercism.org. Building complex software at delftsolutions.nl. On the spectrum. Cancer Survivor (x3) πŸ‘¨πŸ½β€πŸ¦½ @sleeplessbyte / @LookingForAmy almost everywhere

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Thanks for being there!

21.11.2025 01:04 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's okay. There's much wrong with me too ;)

15.11.2025 06:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Hey that's me!

15.11.2025 05:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

If they actually cared deeply they'd all resign.

This group of people, their actions, and everything that has come after is about the worst thing that has happened for our community in quite a while.

As far as I am concerned this can burn to the ground and die.

15.11.2025 05:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Recreating the clock made of clocks Β· Code in Bits and Pieces My implementation and explanation of the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript challenge to recreate the clock made of clocks.

Just wanna read how I did it?

www.derk-jan.com/articles/202...

19.10.2025 01:09 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Challenge: the clock made of clocks Β· Code in Bits and Pieces HTML, CSS, and JavaScript challenge recreating the intriguing concept of a clock made of clocks.

Wanna practice HTML + CSS (and a bit of JS)?

www.derk-jan.com/articles/202...

19.10.2025 01:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

@joel.drapper.me Yooooo. Sorry I rolled away *if you recalled* at EuRuKo. I did wanna chat, butttt we had reservations for dinner!

Thank you for all the well pointed comments on the current issue in our community, and thanks for the workshop at the conf!

02.10.2025 00:15 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

bsky.app/profile/mike...

To continue reading

19.09.2025 20:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œWith the recent increase of supply chain attacks we decided to do one of our own”

19.09.2025 14:24 πŸ‘ 99 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

There isn't a single apology or even recognition of bad decisions. Once again the generic "we need to move forward" bullshit.

So yeah, that taste will remain for the foreseeable future.

19.09.2025 16:03 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Accessibility isn't a feature.

Something that's not accessible is unusable and that should be a major programming mistake, also known as bug.

22.07.2025 15:45 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I stopped using BlueSky because of this. 13/15 issues (I stopped reporting after that) are still open, nothing marked as planned. One of the closed issues was silently reverted without any response from the developer who did that why they did that.

Sure-fire way to make people feel second class.

22.07.2025 15:45 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
EuRuKo: Europe's biggest Ruby conference EuRuKo is a Ruby conference organised annually, each year in a different European city chosen by the participants.

Wouldn't it make more sense to register euruko.org instead?

05.06.2025 16:19 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Issues Β· bluesky-social/social-app The Bluesky Social application for Web, iOS, and Android - Issues Β· bluesky-social/social-app

github.com/bluesky-soci...

In the past 6 months, 2 issues have been closed (resolved). One by someone from the staff. The other one has silently been reverted by @hailey.at with no explanation or follow up. The fix is no longer live. See also: github.com/bluesky-soci...

27.05.2025 22:03 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

4 months in. Same story.

15.03.2025 21:49 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It's now part of my first use process to completely remove all copilot shit.

That and the shit move where they increase everyone's office 365 subscription price to have access to copilot with a pretty difficult path to downgrade...

06.03.2025 19:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Switching to Microsoft 365 Personal and Family Classic Plans - Microsoft SupportYour Privacy Choices Opt-Out Icon Learn how to switch to a Microsoft 365 subscription plan without AI features, which include Microsoft 365 Basic, Microsoft 365 Personal Classic and Microsoft 365 Family Classic.

PSA

Using Office 365? Microsoft with automatically "upgrade" you to an expensive plan including CoPilot horseshit. Follow this guide to downgrade (yes, you can only downgrade via Cancel subscription). For family plans you will save ~30+ EUR/year.

support.microsoft.com/en-gb/office...

28.01.2025 00:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

there are tons of color syntax's folks dont know about, check out my #CSS Color MEGA LIST 🀘🏻

codepen.io/argyleink/pe...

14.01.2025 21:28 πŸ‘ 53 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0
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Chair Stop-Motion πŸͺ‘πŸ’¨ Made with 444 pictures taken over 10 days

10.01.2025 15:38 πŸ‘ 32241 πŸ” 8497 πŸ’¬ 446 πŸ“Œ 409

I hope it was fun!

07.01.2025 18:17 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Doughnut - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doughnut

Origin story! Oil cake/oliebol became the donut/doughnut!

31.12.2024 01:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It is extremely obvious that whomever handled my support requests did not even attempt to reproduce any of the issues as I've been asked to make a screenrecording "if the issue still persists". The only issues they noted for "future improvements" have already been fixed weeks ago.

What's the point?

22.12.2024 03:25 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's now the 22nd of December. I just received a "response" to all the other support requests I made.

The response ranges from "your feedback is valuable" to a proverbial please go fuck yourself. Accessibility issues are not "nice suggestions to track". Generic responses after 1 month are not okay

22.12.2024 03:25 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Guess what.

The support requests about not being able to use the site from over 1 month ago reported via Zendesk just got a generic "can you check if this still an issue" response.

Imagine relying on that support.

18.12.2024 00:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

That said, if github.com/ariatype/ari... is unioned with the HTMLAttributes thing, ya should be there?

08.12.2024 04:26 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

We can. It's quite a bit of work though, because you should NOT at `role` to elements that have a default role (unless you want to overwrite it). So it's not a "role should be there", but it's "the computed role should be x"

08.12.2024 04:26 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

We're almost hitting 4 weeks.

None of the other 13 have been updated, touched, solved, or interacted with.

08.12.2024 04:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

14. It's more than I expected as European :')

08.12.2024 04:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

More & more politics in my discover feed, and a lot of it is opinions mixed with facts. Oh oh oh...

04.12.2024 01:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Turn off AI features by default (to reduce their climate impact) If users don't use a future that requires a lot of energy and water, that's wasteful. Making such features opt-in is the right thing to do.

✏️ Turn off AI features by default (to reduce their climate impact) hidde.blog/please-make-...

new post. sorry to oversimplify but I just hope we'd all do less overcomplexifying

30.11.2024 11:30 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1