Vale.Rocks
Website of front-end developer, designer, and writer Declan Chidlow, containing thoughts, musings, and otherwise unhinged ramblings.
Articles
65 articles
Overview of Digital Accessibility Technologies
The Internet Is Going To Change Everything
There Isn't A Microchip Under Your Skin Tracking You
Lessons From Tech Support
The $25 MacBook Pro
AI Terminology is Poorly Defined and Oft Misused
It's All Just Trees With Web Origami
The Regulated Reality of China's Gaming Industry
China’s Parallel Web Behind the Wall
Beyond the Square and Under the Rug
Stay Away From Accessibility Overlays
The Death of Character in Game Console Interfaces
Design Considerations for Moderation Tooling
My Opinionated CSS Reset
Experiencing Zen in the Ratz Instagib Meat Grinder
You Can't Opt-Out of Accessibility
Frequently Asked Unicycling Questions
Strongly Worded Emails
On Writing for Publications
Nootropical Notes
Switching to Colemak-DH
Identifying AI Content Is A Fool's Errand
Tea Reviews
Biological Donation
Winter Rhapsody
Allegedly I Have The Mark of the Beast
Wishes Upon My Demise
How I Configure Neovim
Advising Reasonable AI Criticism
Creativity Came to Pass
How I'm Using AI
My Writing Style and Mannerisms
Why Video Isn't My Publishing Preference
Why I Write
The Analytics of This Site
Airports and Aeroplanes
Open-Source is Just That
An Analysis of That's How I Beat Shaq
Build, Use, and Improve Tools
AI Model History is Being Lost
Respecting User Preference
Strong Opinions on URL Design
AI is Stifling Tech Adoption
Improving Early Kindles
An Inventory of Lexical Loves
The Flow State
My Experience Biohacking
The Implementation of This Site
Media Review Reasoning
Lorem Ipsum
Building Sites With iFrames
Technology I Use
I Got A Flipper Zero
JPEG XL and Google's War Against It
My Code Formatting Guidelines
Minecraft, Nostalgia, and Growing Up
Cybersecurity Superstition
I Hate My Nokia
Everything is Chrome
A Year With The Framework Laptop 13
Prematurely Pulling The Plug On 3G
"Halo: My Thoughts"
The Ultimate LibreOffice Setup
Connecting to Australian Public School Internet
The Design of This Site