Talon the Dragon @talon@dragonscave.space

Life is too weird sometimes. Strange patterns. Things you can't explain. Unsure what to do with it all.

Computer lifestyle is expensive lifestyle.

Not sure why I invest so much into laptops when desktops are ultimately much more fun to use. I don't seem to travel quite as much anymore... maybe it's time to upgrade this thing. Maybe put a new Ryzen™ 7 3700X and some nice 32 gigs of RAM... and a motherboard and SSD upgrade. And maybe a new desk. And some cable management facilities. And a new keyboard. Gah! :(

Next month I will have had this instance running for a year. Time flies so fast. Wow.

My cat told me to pass this very important message along:
Meeeewwww

Hi from Linux. Sadly, web browsing is still just as slow with Orca and assistive tech as I remember it. :( which is really a shame.

I should just get a SSD, swap out the terribly slow HDD in that thing and see how long it will continue to live.

It's insane how thin laptops are getting. Just found a laptop from 9 or so years ago. It's huge compared to my daily driver! The onyly difference being that my daily probably won't last 10 years while this one still goes strong.

Maybe I need to start working part time and figure out another way to sustain myself by giving to the community and... I dunno.

I have an album I really want to record and produce but I also have so many other projects going and then there's work and ugh a day just really, really doesn't have enough time and god dammit :(

It appears as though every single Monday something is broken with the VPN work uses. Except now the chat is also down heeeelp does this mean I actually need to make phone calls?

One of those mornings where I can hardly keep my eyes open. It's a struggle. Stupid mondays...

Yes I'm one of those people that loves #golang sue me

To close off, this is a rant. I'm not in a good mood, so don't be offended. But this is what I feel every single day. Would you want to use products that make you feel like this from the second you start to the second you quit at each turn? Sure you might work on a bad product, but then having to use bad products to manage it? Makes me not want to do this anymore. Feel like I'm losing my passion

Especially if it's productivity tools or tools that get used in companies around the world. Our ticket system is so intensely frustrating that if nothing changes I might have to quit. I just can't find my way around it and it's super frustrating to constantly ask coworkers just to help me do my paperwork! These are all solved problems! :'(

And there's just no stopping. How is it possible that established web developers don't know! It's not like most popular sites for docs, etc. don't talk about it! Fuck, it would even make sense from a testing standpoint! And I feel like it's only gonna get worse. Please, if you develop a web app, please just think about accessibility, you never know who might use your product

So many times at work I had to speak up and be like hi, so, this tool that you want to use is great and all but its not accessible. I'm the only visually impaired person at the company. This has happened to our chat platform, to our ticket system, our wiki is next, I just don't know what to do anymore. Fucking stupid. God I'm so pissed off.

Constantly happens that links are unlabeled. Buttons are unlabeled. The focus gets trapped in a certain edit box and you can't get out. Random letters just anywhere on the page. I just don't understand why it has to be like this. It's perfectly possible to make a UI that doesn't look bad but is still accessible! :(

Ugh guys this is so disheartening I'm so about ready to give up on the web. So many popular things that people use in work life, trello being an excellent example, are just so horrible from an accessibility standpoint and I just don't see it getting any better. At this point it can't be that people don't know, it must be that people don't care. I just don't get it. The same frustrations day in day out.