Why I'm Betting Against AI Agents in 2025 (Despite Building Them) :: Aaron Gustafson
Hi there. My name is Aaron Gustafson and I work on the web.| www.aaron-gustafson.com
Hi there. My name is Aaron Gustafson and I work on the web.| www.aaron-gustafson.com
In this episode, Trevor Noah and Brad Smith talk about a lot of things, but I think the most prescient is their discussion of information bubbles and organizing around labels. Trevor astutely observes how the source of information often colors how we receive that information and whether we consider it or reject it out of hand. In today’s media ecosystem, the system of “in groups” and “out groups” creates deep division and makes us more susceptible to misinformation.| Aaron Gustafson: Latest Posts & Links
It’s here! Nearly 900 pages of guidance on how to build web pages, to which I contributed a little over 100 pages: Learning Web Design, 6th Edition.| www.aaron-gustafson.com
The disability personas contained in Sarah Horton & Whitney Quesenbery’s A Web for Everyone are a terrific resource, so I’m thrilled their available beyond the book now too.| Aaron Gustafson: Latest Posts & Links
While working on a recent project I noticed an issue with a canvas-based audio visualization when I toggled between light and dark modes. When I’d originally set it up I was browsing in dark mode and the light visualization stroke showed up perfectly on the dark background, but it was invisible when viewed using the light theme (which I’d neglected to test). I searched around, but didn’t find any articles on easy ways to make canvas respond nicely to user preserences, so I thought I’d...| www.aaron-gustafson.com
Earlier this month I joined Jeremy Osborne and Andrew Miller to talk about the benefits and harms of AI as it relates to accessibility. It was livestreamed on a few platforms, but I wanted to drop links to the transcript and archival video in case you’re interested.| www.aaron-gustafson.com
Hi there. My name is Aaron Gustafson and I work on the web.| www.aaron-gustafson.com
Michael F. Buckley posted a somewhat imflamatory piece to the UX Collective blog over on Medium and I had some strong reactions to it I wanted to share. You should read it first before continuing.| www.aaron-gustafson.com
This is the kind of work that keeps me excited about the potential of AI to meaningfully improve people’s lives. I’m so proud to be playing a small part in this project.| Aaron Gustafson: Latest Posts & Links
I’ve been broadly working in the DEI (or DEIA if you like) sphere for decades now. Most of my work has been coming at it from the accessibility side of things, but I got really involved in allyship and more traditional DEI work starting in 2019. Seeing the current U.S. administration taking an axe to DEI programs in the government and bully private businesses to do the same has me incredibly frustrated, confused, and (yes) angry. I want more equality and more opportunity in the world, not l...| www.aaron-gustafson.com
I really appreciated Cory LaViska’s take on #WebComponents here. Especially this bit:| Aaron Gustafson: Latest Posts & Links
A few weeks back I released a web component to enable you to add requirement rules to checkbox groups. Continuing in the form utility space, I’ve created a new web component that allows you to make fields required based on the values of other fields: form-required-if.| www.aaron-gustafson.com
This is a fantastic run-through of HTML and CSS features that help reduce our dependence on JavaScript (and improve #accessibility). Great work Kilian!| Aaron Gustafson: Latest Posts & Links
I have no opinion on CrowdStrike as a company or service. I’ve never used their products. In fact, prior to the incident last week, I had only a passing familiarity with their name — likely from headlines in the tech press I’d scrolled past at some point in time. I now have a vague understanding of what they do, but that’s only based on what I learned about the cause of the incident. In reflecting on this unfortunate incident, I can’t help but think of the lesson it holds for web de...| www.aaron-gustafson.com
HTML checkboxes debuted as part of HTML 2.0 in 1995. Our ability to mark an individual checkbox as being required became part of the HTML5 spec that published in 2014. A decade later, we can still only make checkboxes required on a case-by-case basis. To overcome this limitation, I had created a jQuery plugin that allowed me to indicate that a user should choose a specific number of items from within a checkbox group. Yesterday I turned that plugin into a web component: form-required-checkboxes.| www.aaron-gustafson.com
I love straightforward examples, like this one, of how to build progressively enhanced experiences in frameworks like React.| Aaron Gustafson: Latest Posts & Links
