I'm working on an article/tutorial about how to develop an intuition behind the WCAG contrast rules so you can spot bad contrast problems yourself instead of getting surprised (and irritated) by contrast checker tools giving you failures later. And how to solve color contrast problems like what design options you have when two colors don't contrast.
After speaking to other designers, I find most want to follow the WCAG rules but get stuck going in circles not knowing how to fix color contrast issues e.g. when changing one color throws another one off, and how to work with brand/primary colors that lack contrast (like orange/yellow on white).
Since working on my palette designer, I developed a lot of intuition in this area so wanted to share what I learned. There's lots of articles on WCAG rules, but many will say "pick accessible colors" without really helping you understand how, especially when you have to stick to certain brand colors.
I have one more chapter left to read in the book The Analogical Mind: Perspectives from Cognitive Science[1] so finishing that up is on the plate for this weekend. That largely wraps up a several month long deep dive into analogical reasoning that I've been engaged in. After that, I plan to shift back to studying associative networks / semantic networks / concept graphs and suchlike, along with revisiting some neural network stuff (not LLM's mind you).
Aside from that, I'll be doing one thing I don't normally do much of over the weekend, and that's some $DAYJOB work. I'm working on some experiments with the OBO (On Behalf Of)[2] login flow with Azure Entra, and since I'll be on PTO most of next week, I'm trying to finish things up, at least to a point where I can cleanly hand it over to a co-worker to finish this coming week.
I'm working on an addon for Godot called Godot Sandbox, and we're trying to also build it as a module. A module is embeddable into Godot, so that you can have only one executable be the whole game. Addons are dynamically loaded at run-time. It's been a lot of work, but integration is just as important as making the addon itself.
I work on various github projects: 1) Header-only ASCII font renderer for embedded/SDL/terminal https://github.com/Ferki-git-creator/ascii-render
2) TurboStitchGIF: A fast, header-only C GIF decoder without dynamic allocations, ideal for embedded systems and cross-platform projects. https://github.com/Ferki-git-creator/TurboStitchGIF-HeaderOn...
My budget - the reality of living off my savings hasn't totally reflected my spending yet (mostly though). I'm trying out switching to cash.
My family - they're coming to visit for a few days
My health - evaluating what's been working for weight loss, charting my progress.
I'm iterating on my accessible color palette designer:
https://www.inclusivecolors.com/
I'm working on an article/tutorial about how to develop an intuition behind the WCAG contrast rules so you can spot bad contrast problems yourself instead of getting surprised (and irritated) by contrast checker tools giving you failures later. And how to solve color contrast problems like what design options you have when two colors don't contrast.
After speaking to other designers, I find most want to follow the WCAG rules but get stuck going in circles not knowing how to fix color contrast issues e.g. when changing one color throws another one off, and how to work with brand/primary colors that lack contrast (like orange/yellow on white).
Since working on my palette designer, I developed a lot of intuition in this area so wanted to share what I learned. There's lots of articles on WCAG rules, but many will say "pick accessible colors" without really helping you understand how, especially when you have to stick to certain brand colors.
I have one more chapter left to read in the book The Analogical Mind: Perspectives from Cognitive Science[1] so finishing that up is on the plate for this weekend. That largely wraps up a several month long deep dive into analogical reasoning that I've been engaged in. After that, I plan to shift back to studying associative networks / semantic networks / concept graphs and suchlike, along with revisiting some neural network stuff (not LLM's mind you).
Aside from that, I'll be doing one thing I don't normally do much of over the weekend, and that's some $DAYJOB work. I'm working on some experiments with the OBO (On Behalf Of)[2] login flow with Azure Entra, and since I'll be on PTO most of next week, I'm trying to finish things up, at least to a point where I can cleanly hand it over to a co-worker to finish this coming week.
[1]: https://direct.mit.edu/books/edited-volume/2224/The-Analogic...
[2]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/identity-platform/v2...
I'm working on an addon for Godot called Godot Sandbox, and we're trying to also build it as a module. A module is embeddable into Godot, so that you can have only one executable be the whole game. Addons are dynamically loaded at run-time. It's been a lot of work, but integration is just as important as making the addon itself.
Trying to understand Variational Inference. Struggling like hell though so if anybody has some great resources, I would be thankful.
Adding tests to the test automation of a personal project
Learning Spanish to at least get to a B1 level by next February when my wife and I will be in Costa Rica for a month and half.
Spending time in the gym and spending time with my wife.
Not my mental health
Working on my tan today. Travelling across Ukraine by train tomorrow.