2025

Android Days Five and Six: let's get appy!

Probably the final entry in this particular series.

Android day Four: Equality Achieved

I complete Android customizations bringing me what feels like equality with IOS, at least for the base system.

Android Days two and three: There has to be a way to make this better

Where I become frustrated with the out of the box experience and try to improve things.

Android Day One: How do I go home?

The phone arrives, and I unbox and turn it on.

Day Zero On My Android Journey

Wherein I talk about what I tried to buy, and why I don't have it yet.

Can AI Play Text Adventure Games?

Turns out AI does perfectly well at playing text adventures. I hooked Google Gemini 2.5 into the famous Inform text adventure Curses, it became obsessed with fiddling around with the torch, got a game over twice for trying to take the gloves from the potting room, then got fed up and quit. Entirely too relatable.

Jami could be a skype replacement if only accessibility was cross-platform

Jami is a fully peer to peer chat application that supports text and video, but is only accessible on mobile.

My Accessible Cordcutting Solution

I haven't paid for a cable subscription for years. This is what works for me as a blind TV watcher.

Innosearch is good because of the humans, not the AI

Innosearch is an accessible shopping solution, powered by AI. But it's the human support that makes it worthwhile.

Some Pseudoscientific Sleep Solutions

These are some of the weapons that are working for me in my on-going battle against insomnia.

Moved The Blog to Static

My adventures in continuing to fiddle with my blog.

Call of Fate: A Tour De Force in culturally accepted tropes

Call of Fate is a Chinese audiogame released on Android and IOS by Prudence Interactive, intended to be accessible to both blind and sighted players. These are my thoughts after playing for several days.

Review: The New Dawn by Icalos

readers who enjoyed the other four books in this series will find this is a satisfying conclusion, offering closure, and ending the journey nicely.

Canadians: vote!

Review: The Bee-ginning: A Dungeon-Core LitRPG by Icalos

A positive review, recommending it to readers who enjoy litRPG or dungeon core especially.

Can AI help me read scans of golden-age science fiction magazines?

I try multiple AI tools to attempt to get an accurately transcribed and formatted version of the Astounding Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy from 1955. This stream of consciousness article documents how it went.

the three AI tools in my accessibility toolbox

These are the three AI tools I use as a daily part of my life, and a list of five tools I'm still trying.

Review: The Deco BE95 from the perspective of a voiceover user

My review of the Deco BE95 Wifi7 Mesh Router as a blind VoiceOver user.

AI and the Sound of Disability

Attempting to use an AI sound effects generator to generate sounds related to disability.

My Accessible Self-hosting Tech Stack

The current apps I self-host and how they're working for me.

Open Protocols and APIs: The Overlooked Key to Accessibility

Open protocols and APIs are crucial for ensuring lasting accessibility for users with disabilities, as reliance on proprietary services limits customization and support.

Some Solutions to My Problems

solutions to problems with imports and displaying shortcodes on micro.blog.

My initial thoughts on Micro.blog

initial issues with micro.blog