Hidde
Into front-end, accessibility and ethics. Involved with WCAG, Web Sustainability Guidelines.
I work on web standards for NL gov. Also on the W3C's Advisory Board.
Blogger: hidde.blog, reader/concert goer: log.hidde.blog, speaker: talks.hiddedevries.nl.
- Underworld (nuxx) 30 @ O2 Brixton was incredible!
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- ✏️ WCAG-EM 2.0 lets you report on accessibility of more than just websites hidde.blog/wcag-em-apps
- 🚅 off to London for our W3C Advisory Board meeting
- “Metrics cleanse our judgment process intrusively and indiscriminately. They are moral bleach” — C. Thi Nguyen in The Score
- ✏️ I'm back to building my own digital music collection a new blog post, and I'm curious how others do this! hidde.blog/owning-music/
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- If you work somewhere that still communicates via X, this week is a good one to petition comms folks to stop using it (generates thousands of sexually abusive images per hour while its owner laughs, FT calls it a “deepfake porn site” www.ft.com/content/ad94...).
- Booked my travel for FOSDEM! Looking forward to meeting people and hanging out in the Open Source & EU Policy and the Browser / Web Platform rooms.
- Booked my travel for FOSDEM! Looking forward to meeting people and hanging out in the Open Source & EU Policy and the Browser / Web Platform rooms.
- Had to teach my 8yo about AI safety and opt-outs today, as their teacher let the class do “research” using a modern search engine.
- If I were to turn my thoughts on responsible, irresponsible AI into a public talk that is both critical and reasonable, which conferences should I pitch to? (European preferred)
- There may be great use cases for Large Language Models, but note that some use them to sexually assault women online.
- Reposted by Hidde// clears throat // taps mic "One two three. Test. One two three" "Welcome to CSS D ... no, I need more gravitas. Could you turn up the bass just a little bit?"
- ✏️ 5 accessibility checks to run on every component zeroheight.com/blog/5-acces... I guest-posted on zeroheight's blog about accessibility of components! (note: WCAG compliance is claimed on full pages/processes only)
- Famous for product names like “Teams (for work or school)” and “Windows XP Professional Edition”, Microsoft has just renamed its Office work productivity software. the new name is, and I am not kidding: “the Microsoft 365 Copilot app” www.office.com
- Had a new AI tool pitched to us at work that “reduces legacy transformation timelines by 30-60% percent”. dear lazyweb, in what unit are legacy transformation timelines measured? Wrong answers only.
- 🔗 “The most distinctive element of [ITC Garamond] is its enormous lower-case x-height. In theory this improves its legibilty, but only in the same way that dog poop’s creamy consistency in theory should make it more edible.” (From: I Hate ITC Garamond designobserver.com/i-hate-itc-g...) (via Eric)
- Started my 2026 reading log on log.hidde.blog/books/#2026 Inspired by @robin.berjon.com I will keep a thread this year to help you find new reads and make it easy to mute.
- Reposted by HiddeI love reading all your annual summary blog posts. Send them my way. pawelgrzybek.com/a-look-back-... So far I have @dbushell.com @bell.bz Cory Dransfeldt @hidde.blog @css-tricks.bsky.social @chriskirknielsen.com Damian Walsh and @loige.co on my list. Send some more my way please! #blogging
- ✏️ Dear Mozilla, I don't want an “Al kill switch”, I want a more responsible approach for all a new blog post! (*I do want the kill switch, but responsible rollout matters even more in the grand scheme of things) hidde.blog/mozilla-ai-k...
- AI generated music made it to Tidal, I saw multiple fake Hiromi albums this week. When I tried to find out how to report, to help them do what's their job, a light gray text appeared. It asked me to rephrase to “help the AI come up with a quick (sic) answer”. ready to go live off grid in the woods
- ✏️ 2025 in review hidde.blog/2025-review/
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- AI note taking seems useful, as now nobody needs to take notes. But your notes will be super long and include way too much. Finding the subtle mistakes, misattributions, and remembering what's missing will take more time than writing them yourself (I pledge to do my bit and regularly volunteer).
- 🔗 “you can't outsource love” — @edent.tel shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/12...
- today I wrote my first explainer (see the explainer explainer for what that means: w3ctag.github.io/explainer-ex...) I also reduced a 3,5 page doc to a 2 page doc. Over years and between different jobs, *writing* has continued to be a large part of my work. writing ftw
- Out today: the Q4 release of the in progress Web Sustainability Guidelines. New filters, updated UX section, less overlap/duplication and more www.w3.org/TR/web-susta... Release notes: github.com/w3c/sustaina... hat tip to @alexdawsonuk.bsky.social and Rose Newell and everone else (see notes). 👏👏
