Drew

12 Apr

Replying to @drewking.dev

Where as a society are we investing our resources if the labor of caring for and accommodating disabled bodies is labour worth automating? This is the insidious ableism in the rhetoric of pro-AI apologists who hide behind positive disability principles.

21 May

Laptop case died. Time for new stickies.

drewking.devInstall Windows 11 on almost anythingA tutorial covering clean installation of Windows 11 using Rufus, including prep, driver backup, and Intel Mac hardware support.

18 May

One of my friends is volunteering in Kenya this summer. He was going to bring his brand new MacBook Neo. I talked him into bringing a burner laptop but his machine died. So I installed Windows 11 on a 2015 MacBook Air and documented the steps: drewking.dev/projects/win... #hardwarepreservation

github.comGitHub - andrewpking/brigadier-python3: Fetch and install Boot Camp ESDs with ease using Python3Fetch and install Boot Camp ESDs with ease using Python3 - andrewpking/brigadier-python3

18 May

The main thing was rewriting brigidier to download the bootcamp drivers. The program is written in Python2 so I migrated it to Python3 using 2to3 and I put the script in a fork of the main project on GitHub. github.com/andrewpking/...

18 May

The result is that everything works, WiFi, Thunderbolt, trackpad, display. Just works. If anyone has #lastgen hardware laying around, it’s definitely worth considering this option if you aren’t familiar with Linux or need native Office Suite. My friend does not know Linux so this should work!

bitdefender.comTechnical Advisory: OpenClaw Exploitation in Enterprise NetworksThe promise of autonomous AI agents is rapidly turning into a security beachhead for initial access.

25 Feb

Yikes! One big attack surface.

25 Feb

alt text: “Protip: alias sudo to ‘please’ for a much more wholesome Unix experience”

Marko Bajlovic@marko.tech

cookbook.miseryparty.orgmisery meals: a crip community anti-cookbook for when eating and cooking is hardHow do we feed ourselves when we can’t get out of bed? When we aren’t even sure we want to be alive? When every time we try to make rice, it feels like the first time?misery meals is a choose-your-own...

25 Feb

Need.

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha@thellpsx.bsky.social

hi! cookbook.miseryparty.org/miserymeals this is extremely wonderful and I got to write about my girlfiend aka frozen GF pizza with stuff on it, and the afterward. pre order dropped

14 Feb

Is it just me or is Microsoft Dynamics CRM one big #A11Y fail? The teams button has a Z-Index of 1 and is jam packed with ARIA roles. It grabs the keyboard focus on every page, preventing people who navigate with a keyboard from easily using the app. There is no dark mode either. Rant below:

I was able to make it accessible for me by altering the Z-Index of these elements. The site performs poorly with dark reader so I went with a simple css solution for dark mode: html { filter(90%); } seemed to do the trick.

14 Feb

Lastly, for Co-Pilot: display: none; CSS did the trick. How does a multibillion dollar company with leading accessibility research completely abandon users of a product that is for enterprise company. None of this is #WCAG complaint. Do better and stop forcing users to self accommodate

Copilot integration moves all of the communications around, preventing them from being interacted with properly until it is complete. The number of times I’ve tried to open a note and then landed on a completely different page due to this is a menace. These “features” cannot be disabled by users.

14 Feb

I’ve tried using extensions to hide them from the DOM, but due to dynamic class naming schemes in react for the least desirable features, they will eventually reappear. I found the only solution is to use a custom style sheet and select on data-id (since it needs this consistent to work).

github.comGitHub - andrewpking/transgressionmapUI: UI for transgression map serverUI for transgression map server. Contribute to andrewpking/transgressionmapUI development by creating an account on GitHub.

3 Dec 2025

Working on a personal project I was going through hell with CORS and my backend dev was struggling to fix it on the Koa server. I went into the server code and moved koa/cors from api.ts to server.ts and that seemed to fix my problem. Now I can load API data from my Vite app. #codeinpublic

#builtwithmapbox

Finally got around to making a MVP that is not vibe coded. That was just a rapid prototype. github.com/andrewpking/...

18 Jan

A coworker told me about Pummel Party and I’m really enjoying this game. Great way to ruin your friendships 😂

18 Jan

I don’t have speakers but I wanted everyone to have sound. I had to learn how to setup sinks with pipewire so I could route the audio through two PS5 controllers. No need to edit configs. I found a really good article on how to do this from the terminal. I can dig it up if anyone is interested.

Ben Hart (share my pinned)

9 Jan

A client at work showed me Windows + V keyboard shortcut for smart clipboard and my life will never be the same. I don’t use windows on my personal computers and I’m curious if anyone has recommendations for clipboards on macOS (App Store) and Linux (flathub)?

Drew reposted

@pavlovforgoths.com

9 Jan

the discourse on what jobs are acceptable to replace with generative AI reveals a lot about what we think of other people's jobs

Drew reposted

404 Media

@404media.co

2 Jan

Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. “Big tech has made their choice.” www.404media.co/google-has-c...

404media.coGoogle Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation EffortGoogle is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable…

19 Dec 2025

Made my first #JIRA ticket today. Feeling pretty accomplished. Cant go into details but the investigation shows that I found something important!

7 Dec 2025

@profanity.accountant have I been naughty this year?

7 Dec 2025

I honestly am disappointed in myself.

8 Sept 2025

Updating LineageOS the old fashioned way using adb and fastboot. It worked! Giving the phone away to someone in need. I will miss 12 (music player) and the headphone jack though. Hopefully it is happy in its new home. @lineageos.org thanks for the mmrs. 😎

This phone has a happy home and is now running Ubuntu Touch. New phone has been rocking grapheneOS and runs like a champ.

22 Oct 2025

I bought some Dutch licorice while I was on Granville Island from the Licorice Parlor. My only regret is I only bought 300 grams and not 3 kilograms.

I miss my licorice already 🥲

28 Oct 2025

I started collaborating on a project that uses Yarn managing node packages. Does anyone know if there is an equivalent to Node Version Manager available for managing Yarn versions in the command line?

yarnpkg.comCorepack | YarnAbout Corepack, the Node.js package manager provider.

Apparently Yarn natively supports multiple versions of itself, but needs to be installed and have corepack enabled in each version of node, in both NVM and Volta. I’m such a silly goose sometimes.

13 Oct 2025

Built a PC out of mostly used/free parts. It’s pretty fast and I’m happy with it. Gonna move my #homelab over to it soon. Next step will be getting some hard drives and an NVME boot drive. I hate #e-waste and micro$oft obsoleting good hardware worked out in my favor for this build. #DIY

spokesman.comBorder Patrol, ICE tapped into Washington police surveillance systems for potential immigration enforcementFederal law enforcement agencies accessed data collected by some local police and sheriff’s offices automated license plate cameras around Washington, a University of Washington Center for Human Right...

Someday I’ll get around to adding more RGB fans, upgrading to a SATA fan hub, and ricing my #linux desktop. Been busy with work and coding projects.

Drew reposted

Frederic Marx

@fmarx.com

7 Nov 2025

“My personal website is not an emergency service, so I’ll optimize the CSS when I get to it. Which is never.” — @ohhelloana.blog reminding us to set realistic expectations for our side projects #btconf

Drew reposted

👻Spooky Costanza-Chock

@schock.cc

2 Nov 2025

As Ring announces increased partnership with Flock and law enforcement, do not be fooled by reassurances that you can 'opt out.' Here's evidence that ICE tapped flock from local agencies sometimes without consent: www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...

I’ve been reading a bit about volta.sh and it might solve my problem. Gonna run it by my team.

volta.shVolta - The Hassle-Free JavaScript Tool ManagerVolta: Start your engines.

I couldn’t find anything about managing multiple yarn versions on the web. #webdev

Today I got some display cables and an Ethernet adapter. This is more or less the final setup!

Drew reposted

ByteVagabond

@bytevagabond.com

7 Oct 2025

Open Printer: an open-source inkjet printer with no DRM, no subscriptions, and repairable parts. Sometimes the best innovation is just making things work the way they should have all along.

The IO shield would not fit into the thermaltake case no matter how hard I tried. I even tried scraping some of the paint off and bending down the shield with pliers. Nothing worked at this step. #designfail Good thing I found a case on OfferUp that actually works with my components!

6 Oct 2025

Probably migrating my #homelab from a Rasberry Pi 4 running bare metal Jellyfin with caddy to an old mini PC I had returned to me. I want to use docker + caddy on Ubuntu to host nextcloud, Jellyfin, and an XMPP server. Any tips or docs for newbs? #selfhosting #selfhosted #selfhost #privacy #foss

alice.boxhall.auA threat model for accessibility on the web - AliceA explanation of the primary threat to accessibility on the web, and a call to action for the web standards community

10 Oct 2025

Was gifted some PC parts so I'll be building a budget system from scratch. Stay tuned!

Drew reposted

Adrian Roselli

@aardrian.bsky.social

2 Oct 2025

“A threat model for accessibility on the web” alice.boxhall.au/articles/a-t... A deep, well-researched & cited piece detailing systemic failures down the web stack (standards bodies, browsers vendors, etc) which marginalize #accessibility and its voices — but with proposed solutions. #a11y

27 Sept 2025

Went on a work trip to Maine and explored downtown Portland. First time on the east coast and I really enjoyed it. Looking forward to next time.