Perhaps not related to the article but I find it puzzling that Bluetooth in 2026 still sounds like a fax machine when you use the mic too. That and a much too high latency in general.
StackOverflow didn't feel like a welcoming and humane place the last 10+ years, at least for me.
Actually I think it never did.
It started when I was new there and couldn't write answers, just write comments and then got blasted for writing answer-like comments as comments. What was I supposed to do? I engaged less and less and finally asked them to remove my account.
And then it seems like the power-users/moderators just took over and made it even more hostile.
I hope Wikipedia doesn't end up like this despite some similarities.
Ever thought of writing an emulator? On Reddit theres /r/EmuDev which is a nice place.
For example you could start by writing a CHIP8 emu, then a Space Invaders Emu. After Space Invaders most people write a Game Boy(almost same CPU as Space Invaders and hardware is well documented) emu, but you could try to do a 8086 PC if you want to know more about "real" computers.
There are free BIOS you can use, and FreeDOS, and then rest of the machine is pretty well documented.
The compiler and preprocessors are very picky about accessibility issues like these.
It was annoying in the beginning, but I tried to follow the rules it set out. It feels very professional, and I’m thankful for the guidance.
What’s annoying now is when my coworkers thinks I’m making things unnecessarily complicated by trying to follow these rules and guidelines. A <div> with an onclick is so easy compared to a <button> with extra styling and sometimes calling preventDefault().