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A blind musician, an inaccessible guitar pedal editor, and an AI with browser access walked into a bar — and walked out with a working editor. A reverse-engineering story about accessibility and what AI is actually good for.
AI will write the code, product will write the specs, and management will write the strategy. Everybody gets cut. There's just one problem: nobody could write any of those things properly in the first place.
Simple textual markup and well-crafted templates can be far more effective than PowerPoint for visually impaired users. Some tools that help.
How I spent 3 days debugging RSA signature verification failures between Linux and Windows, only to find out Microsoft uses little-endian byte order.