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Cambridgeport90

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I'm a technologist, musician, a service desk representative by day, and a server/network admin by night.

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/cambridgeport90; my proof: https://keybase.io/cambridgeport90/sigs/yzFqsYgnbbnOR48WaOuTrW7ilSEIRKqrNK5Lnsz5Hqw ]

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Cambridgeport90··on Researchers advance CRISPR-based tool for diagnosing disease – MIT News
One of the sections in this article seems to strike me. If they are making this available in the field, like a pregnancy test, wondering if they'll be able to advance it enough to where anyone can use it, potentially cutting down the amount of possibly unnecessary trips to the emergency room during outbreaks, for instance.
Cambridgeport90··on Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways
We use Microsoft Teams, and for our public interface, Discord. Though I just set up a team on Keybase as well. Look for OpenCAD on Discord and StormlightTech on Keybase if interested.
Cambridgeport90··on The Connections Between Coffee and Biodiversity
We never consider connections between our favourite drink with things seemingly so unrelated, now do we ...
Cambridgeport90··on Keybase is now supported by the Stellar Development Foundation
this is going to be awesome. I need to look at that now. So many coins to be aware of and to study to navigate a seemingly confusing new world, though.
Cambridgeport90··on Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways
depending on how our punctuation is set up with any screen reader, the characters in code are read off nicely. And no special Braille Display is needed for this; any normal one will do, then again, Braille displays are a rather wide selection. With the keyboard, we can move back and forth nearly as fast as, if not sometimes faster, than our sighted counterparts.
Cambridgeport90··on Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways
I couldn't agree more!
Cambridgeport90··on Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways
As a developer community, we need to get to the point where accessibility is not an afterthought, not even something that has to be considered at all; that just is. I'm stating this from experience; I'm blind myself, so I know exactly what is being referred to. My group used to use Slack, and we stopped using it for this very reason. It's not hard to fill out the accessible label field. If it's present in the framework, then it should be taught and enforced.