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masukomi

@masukomi@connectified.com

👉 Senior Back-End Dev. Seeking Remote Position 👈

Autodidactic, Autistic, ADHD, Trans, and Geeky Programmer.

Queer friend of Camellia Sinensis.

If you want to hear my ramblings about Tabletop Role Playing Games check out my other account: https://dice.camp/@masukomi

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masukomi, to random
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@james was commenting about accessibility on various OSs.

I had a LOT of discussions with Apple's accessibility folks when I worked there. I have nothing but respect for them and their skills.

BUT at the end of the day I'm not sure how much it matters because

  • they can recommend whatever they want, but no-one has to listen
  • I saw no evidence of people writing internal tools ever asking them for advice (or following it if they did)

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masukomi,
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  • there's zero push internally to actually address accessibility issues
  • trivial but important accessibility bugs in major tools like Siri sit untouched for years.

Ex. Literally every public facing app apple makes passes through the Accessibility team. They're REALLY good at what they do. And yet, has modern apple EVER released an app that didn't have glaring accessibility issues?

My personal take is that Apple (the co, not the people) really only cares about disabled people as a…
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masukomi,
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That's better than nothing, but it's still 🐄💩.

If they truly cared about disabled folks, then addressing our needs would actually be a priority OUTSIDE of the ads.

But maybe I'm wrong. I'd love love LOVE to see evidence to the contrary.
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masukomi,
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… tool for making disability porn & promoting things that make them look more socially caring than other companies.

Accessibility features get lip service, but are never a requirement of release & anything that didn't get done in the 1.0 is pushed to the back burner and rarely touched. The more work it requires the less likely they are to actually do it, because they've got too many other things that their bosses are demanding. The bosses aren't demanding accessibility as a priority.
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masukomi, to random
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The shitty thing about trying to improve for users is that because that's not my lived experience I can't make it more than "usable" without asking them for free labor.

I'm trying to help them, not give more work to people who already have a hard enough time dealing with the everyday abelist 🐄💩 my fellow software geeks force on them by not even considering them.

masukomi, to ai
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will revolutionize everything!

bardi, to SwiftUI
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Why am I made to jump through excess hoops to simply set the caret position to the very beginning of text in a TextEditor 😭

masukomi,
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@bardi I'm constantly amazed by the never-ending stream of WTFs I hear from devs related to MVP level stuff apple left out of APIs and decisions that make NO effing sense for anyone actually trying to use it.

Over 15 years writing Rails apps and I honestly don't think I've EVER encountered that problem in their framework. Differing opinions, sure, but never just "wtf?!"

Didn't realize how good I had it 'til I started listening to people using Apple frameworks / languages.

masukomi, (edited ) to random
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Question for

Has "dafuq!?" / “dafuck!?” worked its way into the common vernacular enough at this point for it to NOT be cultural appropriation when my white ass uses it?

Because… that's a damn good word. It beautifully expresses SO MUCH of my lived experience.

masukomi, to transgender
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Just stumbled across someone here whose name is "Egg Embry" and my 🏳️‍⚧️ ass read that as

"egg‡ enby" as in, a trans person who hasn't come out and is also non-binary.

🤦‍♀️

‡ eggs are either folks who are trans who haven't realized it yet, or just haven't left the safety of acting cis.

masukomi, to random
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🤦‍♀️ why does the idea of telling someone you have an invisible disability like autism feel equivalent to telling a family member you're queer⁉️

WTF is wrong with our society⁉️

masukomi, to actuallyautistic
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Someone mentioned being at a friends house & their watch warning them about loud env (>90dB) from friends dogs barking.

This is my life 2x a day. Our young dog CAN NOT CONTAIN HIMSELF as I prepare their meal. It takes like 3 mins to prepare. 🤦‍♀️😿 We've been trying to quiet this behavior for 3 years.

Unfortunately, I'm @actuallyautistic & that constant high stimulus first thing in the morning WILL send me into autistic shutdown.

I've taken to wearing shooting muffs.

masukomi,
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Before I dug into what it meant to be
@actuallyautistic
self-care like wearing those muffs would be something I would avoid because society pushes us to "suck it up" or "not be dramatic" or whatever because "normal" people don't need that.

This is one of the reasons I think its SO important for us to help the undiagnosed autistic folks around us to go take a test. https://embrace-autism.com/autism-tests/

Embracing it means learning to take care of your needs, regardless of society's norms.

masukomi,
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@actuallyautistic Also, by "outing" ourselves as autistic and speaking about it to them without stigma helps to normalize the idea. Helps them to see us as real people.

Of course, some people are bigoted abelist ass-holes so obviously some care must be taken with outing yourself.

Jaqspur, to random
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Mended a hole with a soot sprite :anidab_left:

The same as the first picture but not on a foot

masukomi,
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@Jaqspur Love this so much.

courtcan, to StarTrek
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I didn't know any better 20+ years ago. Forgive me, I was young and foolish.

But John de Lancie as Q is incredibly attractive,and I really don't know how I feel about that.



John de Lancie as Q in the early 2020s. Silver hair, silver goatee, same intense and mocking stare, dressed in black. Total silver fox and even more attractive than 30 years ago. Some things truly do get better with age. 🔥🔥🔥

masukomi,
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@courtcan seconded. Wouldn't go near that first guy. 2nd guy ... well i wouldn't go near most guys BUT i can appreciate that yeah, so much better looking now. ;)

masukomi, to random
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The cat has my iPad.

That is all

masukomi,
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@Johannab 🙇‍♀️ thank you for the correction. I … I don’t know what got into me. Such hubris on my part. 😉

bigzaphod, to Ds9
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It’s always dark in the mirror universe.

masukomi,
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@jonhendry @bigzaphod nah, televangelists gain followings by depicting "other" people as "lesser" and riling people up about how bad those "other" people are.

violence in one form or another inevitably follows.

I'm voting for Peace Loving Hippies.

But... as the presence or absence of beards seems to be the primary visual indication of mirror universe dwellers, I think that means they'd all have to shave.

masukomi,
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@jonhendry @bigzaphod ahh. Hmm that does change things a bit

masukomi, to random
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I can't get excited about this Kickstarter update at all, because it 100% feels like

We got sick of sitting around for years while Backerkit took all the money we left on the table.

So, we copied all their stuff.

the thing about better surveys is just fucking insulting, because that's been a major problem for creators for years & they just KEPT ignoring it despite it being pretty damn easy to fix.

masukomi,
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the kickstarter "here's our new 💩" announcement video was still open in my browser and I hadn't finished it, so i tried and I'm just getting more upset the more I watch.

SO MANY THINGS are just like "🖕 fuck you. you've been refusing to give creators that FOR YEARS and then you're like 'look how great we are'. No. Fuck you. You made creators deal with TERRIBLE tools FOR YEARS and have the gaul to not even acknowledge that your 🐄💩 is why they turned to BackerKit?"

chrisphin, to random
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Why THE FUCK would you advertise a feature that skeevy men use to violate the boundaries and equanimity of women and other vulnerable people using a grab that feels exactly like an example of that? Like, I’m not making the argument that DMs are bad and shouldn’t exist (in this post), but why apparently lean into their worst feature??

masukomi,
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@chrisphin @salad_bar_breath The only logical conclusion is that it’s made by people who believe that that type of behavior is acceptable and thus saw no problem in the ad.

masukomi,
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@chrisphin @salad_bar_breath oh dear. I skimmed right past that. ugggggh

masukomi, to accessibility
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I've just pushed a bunch of #accessibility changes for screen readers to the main branch of FediThready. ( It makes long texts into post sized chunks)

I've run through it with #VoiceOver and it seems ok. HOWEVER it all feels like it's "usable" instead of "good".

If there's a #a11y geek out there who uses screen readers regularly I would REALLY appreciate some suggestions on how to make this actually feel good for folks who rely on screen readers.

https://github.com/masukomi/fedithready

masukomi, (edited )
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@talksina "no coding skills" is fine. ANY feedback from someone who knows what they're talking about is valued. File issues, message me here, whatever is easiest.

I'm assuming you don't know how to clone a repo so I just uploaded the latest version here: https://masukomi.org/temp/fedithready/index.html

it's just one page. there is a big box that you type some long text into and it divides it into a bunch of chunks and each has a copy button so that you can copy them & paste into your mastodon client.

masukomi,
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@talksina the chunks automatically regenerate whenever you change / update the text.

Questions I'd like help with:

how do I best help folks to know that there are chunks being generated as they type into the field?

What's the clearest way to indicate that there's a section to type in, and a section to copy chunks from.

How do I let you know you should proceed to the second section after you're done typing?

masukomi,
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@talksina ANY feedback you can provide is really appreciated. I'll do my best to incorporate it.

Thanks 🙇‍♀️

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