Apparently, ARIA live regions don't play nicely with React. Whilst they work fine in many browsers, they simply don't function in VoiceOver without some workarounds.
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Half Way (And A Bit)
With half the year now firmly in the past, how are my 2022 goals coming along?
Missing Keywords in Lightroom
A solution for an annoying bug in Lightroom where keyword searches stopped indexing new tags.
I, Influencer
The tale of my (possibly brief) foray into the world of tech reviews and market influencers.
Starling & The UX Nightmare
Starling Bank frustrates and impresses me in equal measure. Their technical solutions are magical – when they work – but their service is steeped in a privileged bias that makes them hard to truly recommend.
Backfiring Hype Trains
As more and more companies begin dabbling with blockchain tech, I'm increasingly bemused by just how blind they appear to be to the growing consumer concern over the same space.
Styled Component Quirks
Styled Components have tripped me up a few times today, but I ended up learning some useful tricks as a result.
Craft vs Bitdefender: Certificate Wars
For the last month, I've been getting show-stopping errors in Craft. My web host couldn't find any faults, Craft support had no clue, and it only affected one machine: one with Bitdefender installed. I wonder...
My Virtual Forest
I continue to be impressed by the commitment Krystal – my web host – shows towards green computing. Their recent milestone of planting a million trees also highlighted a really cool charity: Ecologi.
Improving Craft on Smaller Screens
Craft CMS can be a very enjoyable mobile authoring experience, but it can be improved with some clever plugins and a few relatively new core features.
Craft Update Woes
CraftCMS has a habit of imploding when running software updates, for which I have developed several coping strategies.
Recording Records
A look at the largely manual workflow I've used to convert my physical music collection into a digital data archive.