Accessible and Sustainable AI with Hidde

We’re finding renewed excitement for discovering music through going to gigs and reflecting on how live shows offer an irreplaceable shared experience. The discussion shifts to the indie web, hyperlink culture, and how social platforms and chatbots reduce discoverability, while AI could lower barriers to building websites but raises concerns about credit, control, hosting complexity, and accessibility.

Topics:

• (00:00) - What has you waking up excited?
• (01:03) - Music and Travel
• (07:16) - Owning Music Again
• (10:59) - Re-discovering the Indie Web
• (15:19) - AI for Personal Websites
• (23:47) - Accessible Defaults and Standards
• (39:02) - Web Trends Come Full Circle
• (43:02) - Smaller Models Better Choices
• (53:38) - Accessibility Positivity vs Policing
• (01:10:10) - Assistive Tech vs Novelty Use
• (01:12:42) - Music Picks

Links:
◉ Songkick
◉ Bandcamp
◉ Open UI
◉ W3C
◉ How People with Disabilities Use the Web (W3C)
◉ WCAG / WCAG 3
◉ CSS Day
◉ Green Web Foundation
◉ Green Software Foundation
◉ hidde.blog
◉ State of the Browser
◉ Massive Attack
◉ IJsland — Dutch punk/hip-hop
◉ James Blake — Trying Times
◉ React
◉ Tailwind CSS
◉ Bootstrap