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Hello, I hope the new year is treating you well!

This week I published two new blog posts!

First was a 2022 in review post where I wrote about my year in blogging, open source, and otherwise. I also covered some of my favorite games/books/TV/movies/podcasts/music of the year, if you’re interested in my taste in media!

Second, I published my first-ever non-webdev-related post, a Game music 2022 survey playlist. I’m a big fan of video game music, and created a giant playlist (300+ tracks) surveying the video game music releases of 2022. This was very much inspired by the exhaustive Fluxblog survey playlists for pop music, though I didn’t pay any attention to the sequencing of tracks. If you’re a VGM fan (or just want some varied mostly instrumental music), give it a listen.

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Yesterday I published a new blog post, “Building tic-tac-toe with Svelte.” In the post I show what considerations went into building this demo - it’s more than you might think! Included are discussions of:

• the importance of <button>
• how using reactive statements really simplifies the game flow
• event forwarding
• focus management and tick
• visually-hidden button labels
• when it’s okay to use querySelector in Svelte

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I published a post this morning about what I learned from the axe-con accessibility conference this month. I spotlight talks from Sara Soueidan, Mark Steadman, Val Head, and Gerard Cohen and what I took away from each.

4 takeaways from axe-con 2021

I found the conference super valuable even though I was only able to catch a handful of talks. I highly recommend for the conference so you can watch recordings of the talks.