One of the interesting aspects of being burned out is that you cannot really appreciate or draw energy from downtime. And that feeling sometimes makes you not want to take downtime at all, which makes things just worse.

Expertise is not to know everything. It is to know what is important. It is to know where to look up details. It is to mediate between concurrent needs. It’s to explain and filter the relevant information to others. It’s (especially!) knowing where its limits are.

After a few weeks off the new keyboard, I have switched back to QWERTY from Colemak. It is still an intriguing idea, but I am just not practising enough to make it happen.

Marco Arment explains how much of the Web is terribly over-engineered in the latest installment of ATP.

One of the nice things I have my students do is to watch one of my favorite talks and write a blog post about it. The goal is to broaden their understanding and highlight other voices. Here’s a great example that highlights @whalecoiner@indieweb.social’s 2018 Paris Web talk.

Tiny play.date console is tiny!

I’d like to sell some one-off remote consulting hours and would like for people to just be able to book them through my/a website. I had hoped I could use something like Paddle which takes care of international taxes and stuff for software. Haven’t found anything yet. Ideas?

Pedestrian friendly cities must, of course, also be accessible to disabled people. Accessible transport leaves space for individualized transport for those who need it. I’m sure we can do two things at the same time.

I’m super envious that there are awards for accessibility in video games but not really for websites. So much of our work is done behind the scenes and we’re not allowed to really talk about it. But I would love to see and create projects to share proudly.

Happy new year, microblog and Mastodon peeps!