Updated December 2, 2024

Ben Daubney ----------- Home About me Contact **Last updated:** 02 Dec, 2024 This is a /now page, listing out the stuff that's going on with me at the moment. If you have your own site, you should make one too. I moved house ------------- That's about it. Everything else has been on pause for weeks. We're in, we're safe, we're (mostly) unpacked, we're thinking about Christmas. Normal service listing music listened-to, books-read, and films-watched will resume shortly. Current status: ---------------

Updated December 2, 2024

I'm an independent accessibility specialist, front-end developer, designer, and educator from Norway, and have a focus on inclusive and ethical tech, and a strong interest in dataviz accessibility. About me / my work. Work with me? ------------- I help companies build accessibile and inclusive products, through (dataviz) accessibility reviews, training and advisory sessions, mitigation work and implementation. Interested in collaborating? collab@fossheim.io. My next availability is in January 2025. About me -------- Hi! I'm Sarah Fossheim _(they/them)_, and I work as an accessibility specialist, front-end developer and inclusive designer in my own tech & accessibility agency. I have a strong interest in dataviz accessibility, and you may also have come across my blog, CSS drawings, photography, or collection of ethical design resources. ### My work Since starting my own business 2021, I mainly focus on **accessibility**, to which I take a holistic approach. Depending on what the project needs, I can perform: * High-level accessibility reviews to understand areas for improvement * Detailed and informative (dataviz and web) accessibility audits, focused on best-practices, WCAG compliance, and practical next steps * Ongoing feature reviews * Accessibility strategy and planning * Training, workshops, ongoing drop-in review sessions * Implementing accessibility improvements and bugfixes * Developing accessible products and features ### My clients During the past years, I have worked on accessibility with companies like FINN.no, WHO (through Kore and Truth & Beauty), Inspera, GreenInfo, and Balansekunst. I have delivered sessions for amongst others Hyper Island, Oda, and Graphic Hunters, spoke at conferences such as SmashingConf, axe-con and Outlier, and contributed with an essay about screen reader accessibility to the Do No Harm Guide on Centering Accessibility In Data Visualizations. I also take on creative coding and front-end consulting projects, like building user-friendly websites, prototypes, and dashboards, where accessibility and user experience are an important focus. I have worked together with companies like Vibbio, HTTPArchive, and reMarkable on projects like this. ### Collaborate? If you have a project that you think might fit me, you can reach out through collab@fossheim.io or LinkedIn, or read more about my offering. ### Technologies * HTML * CSS * JavaScript * TypeScript * React * D3.js * Sanity * Eleventy * Next.js I'm available for ----------------- * ### Accessibility reviews. Don't know if your products or data visualizations are accessible? What's needed to move in a more inclusive direction? How to become WCAG compliant? I can do a detailed or high-level **accessibility review**, and based on the outcomes suggest fixes and next steps. Often this also includes building internal **accessibility documentation & guidelines**. More information and availability * ### Front-end engineering. I'm a front-end, design and accessibility cross-breed. This means I build products and websites that are **user friendly**, **accessible** and **scalable**. I'm open for ongoing front-end consulting, standalone projects, and accessibility engineering. I can independently build accessible websites and prototypes, make accessibility improvements to existing products, or work embedded in a team building the front-end for new features. More information and availability * ### Inclusive design & accessibility training. Do you want to learn what goes into building inclusive products? Get your designers up to speed with designing and documenting keyboard and screen reader interaction? Freshen up your front-end team's WAI-ARIA and semantic HTML knowledge? Or dive into the world of dataviz accessibility? You can book me for one-off presentations and workshops, or recurring training sessions, one-on-ones and Q&As. More information and availability * ### Creative coding. I build good looking, user-friendly, responsive and accessible **websites**, **blogs**, and **interfaces**. I can run the process from start to finish, and often design directly with code. I enjoy challenges involving different ways of working and visualising data and content, and have a lot of fun writing **creative css** (eg. creating photorealistic CSS drawings). Fun fact: I've been writing HTML/CSS since I was 10 ✨. More information and availability Work with me Talks ----- I have spoken at public events and on podcasts since 2021, including: * Introduction to Dataviz Accessibility @ AdaCon, Oslo 🔗 * Practical Accessibility Workshop @ SmashingConf Freiburg 🔗 * Accessibility in Data Visualization @ SmashingConf Freiburg 🔗 * Accessible Product Design @ Product Design Meetup, Kortrijk * Dataviz Accessibility Workshop @ Graphic Hunters * Dataviz Accessibility @ FINN.no UX Evenings 🔗 * Data Visualization Accessibility @ Data Stories Podcast 🔗 * Dataviz Accessibility 101 @ axe-con 2021 🔗 * Are your data visualizations excluding people? @ Outlier 2021 🔗 ### Book me for a talk I'm open to do deliver talks or workshops about (dataviz) accessibility, queer-inclusive design, and front-end development. If you're interested in booking me, send an e-mail to collab@fossheim.io. Please include some information about the event/company, dates, audience, and budget in the initial message. Contact me to book a talk

Updated December 1, 2024

December 2024 ------------- Projects and goals I'm currently working on: * **I'm currently seeking new employment, contracts, and/or commissions** (email me!) * Participating in the Yearlong in Speculative Fiction workshop at Hugo House * I've got three short stories in progress right now, covering horror, cosmic horror, and dark fantasy (see Writing for details) * Learning guitar fingerpicking technique More on these in Sabbatical Update 4.

Updated November 12, 2024

Skip to content Ideas are everything. These are the ones I keep coming back to -------------------------------------------------------------- ### Civic 1. **Double the bounty for recycling bottles and cans –** This would effectively double the income some of our most vulnerable citizens make and hopefully have an environmental impact. To prove this I would like to weigh sanitation costs against redemption revenue 2. **Universal healthcare to spur entrepreneurship** – I have a theory that countries with universal or single payer healthcare start more businesses than ones that do not. Doesn’t mean correlation is causation but I’d like to weigh data from OECD to explore this more ### Business 1. **Calendar analytics** – I spend a tremendous amount of time in my calendar. I would love to pay for a service that looks at all my calendar appointments and tells me where I can improve. Heavily dependent on logging all activities   2. **Digital hygiene** – Students have driver’s ed, sex ed and spend years learning disciplines that will have slim to no impact on their professional success. I have talked to many educators who tell me how bullying and poor digital skills hurt the development of their students. I envision an info product or course that teaches kids healthy digital habits at an early age. Targeted to bullying prevention, safety, digital literacy and online research and productivity.  3. **Rideshare trip subsidies** – Retail is dying and there will be a fight to get consumers into stores. Dan Reich has a great concept for Native Advertising that any of the rideshare companies could easily implement 4. **Move/travel assistant** – nearly every time I have traveled one of my credit cards does not work because I forget to notify them. In 2020 I should be able to do this from one portal or dashboard.  ### Consumer 1. **bathroom hand dryer that sucks instead of blows** – “hand dryers suck in fecal matter and blow it all over your hands” I wonder if using a vacuum and maybe UV light would provide for a more hygienic experience.  2. “**Bartender’s base**” – Having planned and executed a variety of events these past few years I constantly found myself buying a variety of large bottles of mixers. I see an opportunity to build a bundle that includes fruit juice, soda, tonic, seltzer and water that is perfect for a small party. Could probably get more margin for the aggregation of it all into a 12 pack.  3. **Set of cards for all the holidays in a year + birthday**, condolences and blank ones – 100% stolen from this guy on twitter.  4. **Trash/recycling can with barcode scanner** – Likely in the kitchen and you’d need to scan before throwing things away but it would automatically populate to a grocery or shopping list.  5. **Frying pan with a trap door** – everytime I scoop something out of a pan I think there has to be a better way. Would require heavy engineering but imaging if you could pull a trap door and drop the food onto your plate.

Updated October 22, 2024

← ~ muhh internet happy place ### A list of things I want to do It’s a partner to \[\[about\]\] and \[\[now\]\]. Read more about aboutideasnow.com. There are **a lot** of different projects I want to do, more than I can in a reasonable time. But that’s ok. Last update: 2024-10-22. #### Website * integrate bidirectional link plugin and some others from that repo. * Photos * convert /notes to /journal and setup notes like a wiki. * switch theme to \[\[everforest\]\]. * import bookmarks from omnivore * fetch updates from my status page to get them home * mobile publish workflow, something over ssh should be not too much to build * pull in data from /now and display it here. create an archive from it. * add some more slashpages * improve the feeds * integrate GOTO $muhh, backlink style. #### Homelab * Build split keyboard * Plug new GPU card into \[\[cube\]\] * Setup \[\[homeassistant\]\] * Migrate that one Ubuntu VPS to \[\[NixOS\]\].

Updated December 2, 2024

ner3y ----- My /now page ------------ ### 📚 What I’m reading * Das Jesus Video by Andreas Eschbach ### 🍿 What I’m watching * Rookie (Season 6) ### 🎮 What I’m playing * Death Stranding Director's Cut on Xbox Series S ### 💎 Other things I do * Job search * M365 continuing education * * * Last updated 2024-12-02. Back to my profile page!

Updated December 1, 2024

This is a Now page | **Updated:** December 2024, Smithfield, NC ### Full House Mrs. H's cousin and family living in Goldsboro experienced a family tragedy, the upshot of which is we have a full house, now! We've added our uncle, cousin, her son, and 5 month old baby to the permanent mix, and host another relative on weekends. It was quite the adjustment at first, especially in terms of space. We reorganized the rooms around, made the garage a hang-out area and put the drums there, moved our "offices" to the main bedroom, and got things set-up in the other two bedrooms for everyone. It's a little hectic at times, but we've settled into a routine and having the family around is really nice. We try to have meals around our giant table several times a week and that's been lovely. We've gotten the 8 year old into the local school and involved in a couple of different activities. ### Playing Drums, Still! I'm working on original music in two bands at the moment, practicing with them couple times a week and every day at home. Sadly, the bass player for Power Child, the band I had been focusing on for the past 2 years, retired with his wife to Spain, and the band has been what I would consider defunct at this point, although there's been no official break-up. It's a bummer because that was one of my favorite bands I've been in. Maybe it will come around again, or I'll get to play with members of that band again in another context. Copyright © Phillip Harrington. All rights reserved. Made with in Smithfield, NC

Updated October 28, 2024

##### Last updated on 28-10-2024 This is a public list of ideas that I would like to work on someday. This is a copy of the ideas note I have in my Obsidian vault, where I jot down interesting projects, concepts, and thoughts that I find intriguing and might want to explore in the future. Since it is not practically possible for anyone to work on every idea they have, I thought it would be better to make this note public so that someone else might build it someday. Ideas that I’m currently working on are crossed out and have been moved to my projects page. Against each idea, I’ve added a short description to provide more context. If you are interested in any of the ideas mentioned below and want to work on them or collaborate with me, feel free to contact me. In case any of the ideas already exist, please let me know, and I will cross them out with a backlink to the project. **A Search Engine for Personal Blogs**I’m unable to search for content in personal blogs on google or any other search engine. Kagi small web is there, but it’s not personal blog specific.**A World Travel Lottery**A lottery with the grand prize as a fully-expensed, world travel package to visit n countries across all continents**Cricket Guard Line Projector**If you watch cricket, you can see batsmen often marking guard lines against the stumps by asking the umpire. Why can’t we have a laser projection of the stumps controlled by the umpire with a remote?**A cheap running tracker**There are multiple running trackers that you can attach to shoes, like Stryd , but these are quite expensive. Why is it so hard to make cheaper running trackers?**A platform to read both sides of an argument.**A moderated platform where a dedicated page is present for popular topics, and people can read about both sides of the argument.**Indian News Aggregator with relevance**India is struggling with misinformation and rigged news. The magnitude is quite high, considering the huge population, the demographics, and the rising internet penetration. A platform like News Minimalist that removes clickbait titles and filters relevant news would be useful for India.**Global Fish Database in different languages**Fishnames are tricky if you travel around the world. Within a country itself, fish names would be different. A global database of fishnames in all different languages would be great!**Bookmark for Videos & Podcasts**I wish there was a tool to record a particular timestamp on a video or a podcast so that I can watch it from the saved timestamp when I resume, rather than scrolling and finding the time.**Strava for Writers**Strava is a great tool to track your activities. As a writer, such a tool would be great to see the number of words written every day and also get a sneak peek at others’ writings.**About Me Collection**I love reading the About Me sections of various personal blogs. A curated list of the best about pages would be cool.**Evergreen Hosting** People put a lot of effort into their blogs, and most often, after the person passes away, these blogs go obsolete. How about a service that you can pay for one-time or in installments, ensuring that your blog stays live forever? _Update: I wrote about in detail here . Also, checkout Digital Legacy Trust by Derek Sivers._ Comments -------- ##### Leave a comment below. All comments are moderated and will appear after approval. Your email, if provided, is optional and won't be shared or used to send any spam. If your comment requires a personal response beyond a public reply, I will reach out to you via email. Comments are static, with no notifications or backlinks.

Updated December 2, 2024

👋🏽 Hi! I’m Salman ------------------- I live my life wearing different hats—startup founder, CTO, web & iOS engineer, teacher, writer, illustrator and DJ, to name a few. I wrote about the benefits of embracing a generalist lifestyle in a popular essay, The Polymath Playbook. This website is a digital garden for my writing—essays, notes, newsletters and more. Writing online has changed my life for the better in so many ways. It has opened new doors, helped me build self-awareness, and fostered new friendships. Most of all, it gives me a channel to discover and express my truest self. If you’re curious to explore the power of writing, be sure to check out my free writing guide. ### 📖 Fables **Wandering Spirits**: I wrote and illustrated a book of modern fables. Inspired by books like _The Little Prince_, it’s filled with tales that feed the soul, tug the heart and spark the mind. It’s available worldwide on Amazon and all major book retailers. **Modern Fables**: I’ve also launched a new section of my newsletter dedicated to fables. Check out some of the stories I’ve shared: The Fool is Free, The Boat of Stillness, The Other Side, and Pay the Piper. ### 📝 Essays * The Polymath Playbook — My most popular essay, in which I share my way of life—embracing my inner polymath, and exploring multiple pursuits rather than specializing in a single path. * Listen to Yourself — Build self-awareness & discover your hidden truth. * Finding the Courage to be Disliked — How to stop worrying about what other people think. * Friends over Followers — The true power of the internet is the friends you make along the way. _Visit my blog for more essays_ -> * Writing Guide — Collection of lessons learned from years of writing online. * Bookshelf — Selections of my favorite books of all time. _Visit my digital garden for more notes_. ### 🦊 Newsletter I write the Quick Brown Fox newsletter: A weekly newsletter with essays, comics and fables on creativity, self-awareness, and playful productivity. You can subscribe below, or browse the archives to view all the past editions. If you have questions or just want to chat sometime, feel free to get in touch—I’d love to hear from you. Thanks for stopping by!

Updated December 3, 2024

Who? ---- This site is the blog and webcomic of Matt Maldre, a graphic designer and public spaces artist in Chicago. * Encourage creativity in everyone. * Finding the joy in little things. * A new idea every day. * Always be learning, and share what you learn with others. What’s on this site ------------------- This site is a place to share interesting thoughts. Whenever I have an idea for an art project, I’ll post it here and the feedback from others really helps the idea to grow and be much more. I love it when people leave feedback on my ideas. What does “spudart” mean? My approach to street art; and a list of my art projects. Subscribe --------- Join over 500 people who receive creative blog posts once a week (or every day, or every month. You pick the frequency). Social Media ------------ * Bluesky (@spudart.bsky.social) * Facebook Page (Spudart) * Flickr (Spudart) * Mastodon (@spudart@mastodon.social) (don’t use anymore) * Threads (@spudart) (don’t use anymore) * Instagram (@spudart) (don’t use anymore) * Substack Notes (don’t use anymore) * Twitter (don’t use anymore) My websites ----------- * Sharing interesting & creative thoughts on spudart.org for 23 years (first post on September 28, 2001) * Fun with baseball cards, stats, and scorecards on 57hits.com & podcast * Design portfolio on mattmaldre.com (formerly a 12-year-long blog about how to use media better) * Blogging about creativity and faith on christiannotebook.com Day job ------- Senior Designer/Web Marketing Strategist for Tribune Content Agency in the historic Tribune Tower on the Magnificent Mile of downtown Chicago at home. Some occasional illustration work for them, too. (More details on my LinkedIn profile) Interviews ---------- * The interview with Sixty Inches from Center said, “Matt Maldre who creates probably some of the most non-intrusive, non-defacing, hyper-curious yet completely obvious forms of public art.” * I was the Gapers Block feature of the week for the Arts + Culture section in July 2008. * Chicagoscope interviewed me about my baseball scorecard techniques in August 2006 _(podcast no longer available online)._ * Another interview by Chicagoscope in December 2007. This time, we discussed a handout I designed to help save public transit in Chicago _(podcast no longer available online)._ If you’d like to interview me, I’m open anytime. Let’s get in touch. Influential artists ------------------- * **Joseph Beuys** (The great teacher and artist. Warmth over coldness) * **Jörg Immendorff** (German artist who coined the phrase, “Painting must assume the function of the potato. He makes great paintings too.) * **Christo** (A fantastic installation artist who involves the community and all aspects of life in his art. When he can get the cashier ladies at the grocery store to discuss what art is, oh, dude! That is incredible) * **Edward Hopper** (Great moods established by his work. Amazing colors) * **Jackson Pollock** (The studly artist himself.) * **Starn Twins** (Their work is totally my aesthetic) * **Laszlo Moholy-Nagy** (The master of transparency and structure) * **Erik Maldre** (creative work, my twin) * **Mati Maldre** (my Dad the photography professor) * **Andy Goldsworthy** (incredible arrangements made in nature from rocks, sticks, leaves, etc.) Favorite characters ------------------- Spongebob Squarepants, Balki Bartokomous, and Buddy the Elf are my heroes. Wishlists --------- My Amazon wishlist. It’s got a bunch of books, CDs, games, and other fun things that I’d like to get. Do you have a wish list? Personality Type ---------------- According to the Myers-Briggs personality test, I’m either an INTJ (the Mastermind) or INTP (the Logician, Philosopher). Go ahead and take the personality test. Contact me and let me know what you are. What I like ----------- Theology, croquet, art (art theory, public art, oil pastels), design, structures, stats, metaphors for life, libraries, predicting fog, digging holes, toys, Chicago cubs, how things are made, benches instead of chairs, observing solar flare activity, big thick furniture, wool, welding, wrapping gifts in wacky ways, the color gray, macs, paper airplanes, dirt, window washers. View over 500 of my favorite things. Quick description of my art --------------------------- * About creativity and using everyday objects in a new and interesting way. * Offer a moment of pause and reflection, whether it’s to enjoy the beauty of nature, appreciate the passage of time, or simply be mindful of the present moment. * Suggests that we can find joy and meaning in the simple things in life. Favorite books -------------- * Mapping the Terrain: New Genre Public Art * Mere Christianity * The Monumental Impulse: Architecture’s Biological Roots * Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference * Synectics: the Development of Creative Capacity * Museums and Communities: The Politics of Public Culture * Thinking about Exhibitions * Criticizing Art: Understanding the Contemporary * Dictionary * Thesaurus » **Contact me, I am happy to talk.** -------------------------------------

Updated December 2, 2024

Hi I'm Emmy. I'm a Masters student in mathematical biology at the University of Melbourne. I did my undergraduate degree as a double major in developmental biology and pure mathematics and minored in history and philosophy of science (HPS). I like exploring the regularities that explain how life as we know it works. Naturally, that makes me interested in evolutionary theory, mathematics and philosophy of biology. Recently I've been thinking about biological agency, perspectivism and developing mathematical formalisms for both of those frameworks. A good place to start with the math has to be Robert Rosen's seminal work _Life Itself_ expressed in the language of category theory. I really enjoy living in a cosmopolitan and inter-disciplinary world so wouldn't box myself into any one field. But maybe we could call it philosophical biology (a mostly forgotten branch of theoretical biology) or organicism. I'm still unsure if I really want to go into academia because, well, it doesn't seem like such a good place to do theoretical research in the 21st century (also this). Plus, I really love teaching and sharing these ideas with a wider audience. They don't get a lot of coverage in typical popular science. So while I'm still young (and perhaps naïve), I may as well try to figure out YouTube and if it doesn't work out, then the academy isn't going anywhere. My email is emmy 'at' subanima 'dot' org.

Updated October 25, 2024

**Published**: 2 Aug 2024 | **Updated**: 25 Oct 2024 Herein you'll find a considerable list of my ideas: for almost anything. Things I want to create or write, ideas that've caught my interest... Have a browse! My contribution to /ideas, created by Artem Tyurin, and compiled by Peter Hagen and Louis Barclay. See more folks' here. **Table Of Contents** * Artworks * Essays * Fiction * Notes * Pages * Poetry * Road Less Read Artworks -------- * A screenshot garden. * A series inspired by my favorite books. * My portfolio. * My photo gallery. Essays ------ * Albums that mean much to me. * How I built my site. * Life advice I hold onto. * Things I've noticed about countries I've visited. Fiction ------- * Behind-the-scenes during an amateur theatre production. * Falling Behind The Rotating World: A drama about multi-generational blended artistic family headed by a single father set in the near future. * Finish Don't Burn Too Bright. * The highs-and-lows of a young band growing up in the limelight. Notes ----- * A directory of interesting sites. * Experiences I want to have. * My favorite quotes. * My influences. * My music listening stats. * My zine collection. * Places I want to travel. * Proust's questionnaire. * Send Something stats. * Tutorials for making envelopes from magazines, squiggly patterns, bouncy paper chains, and 'cheap wallpaper.' Pages ----- * Hacks: useful things I've picked up for living. * My resume. * My zines. * Podroll. Poetry ------ * A chapbook inspired by lyrics from my favorite songs. * Blackout poetry collection. * Pieces inspired by my favorite films and tv shows. Road Less Read -------------- * A zine-themed directory. * Best practices for making zines. * Blurbs and miniature essays for books I love. * Compile my books read and my notes. * Convert Road Less Read from WordPress to static HTML. * Yearly reading statistics. •--♡--• **Copy & Share**: zacharykai.net/ideas **Statistics** → Word Count: 274 | Reading Time: 1:28 mins