Package Hero, a fun IOS idle game struggling with balance issues

While this game took off like a cargo rocket in the blindness community, some issues hold it back from perfection.

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Note: this article marks the first test of an entirely new publishing process for my blog. It's possible things are deeply, deeply broken. Sorry about that!

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The Agent Solution I Actually Settled On

After bouncing between OpenClaw, Codex, Perplexity Computer, Spacebot, and a bunch of other systems, Hermes Agent is the one I've settled on.

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If AI is going to become a regular part of my workflow, I have a number of requirements for how it needs to work. Every single blind person has been burned by services locking down API's, making inaccessible updates, or just getting rid of functionality we depend on. In order to avoid history repeating itself, I want a system that is:

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NVAccess and the slow Erosion of trust

I still believe that NVDA is the best available screen reader, and I still donate monthly. These are just a chronicle of decisions that have made me go... Huh. What?

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Before we get started, some important disclaimers. First, these are (as with everything I write) my own opinions, not the opinions of the company where I work. Second, while I have developed a couple addons for NVDA, I am a hobbyist developer. While I was deeply involved in cryptocurrency and all of the operational security implications tied up in it for six years, I am not a professional security expert, and I have no security certifications. I've used NVDA for over ten years, but I also can't call myself an expert in the NVDA codebase or the political internals of NVAccess or the pressures it's under.

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