The more you stop thinking of the way sighted people with fine motor control use a site or app as the "default" and assistive technology being the exception, the more you start to design accessibility in from the ground up, instead of trying to bolt it on after the fact.

In “native plants that really ought to be in cultivation as an ornamental” news, let me offer Broom Snakeweed.

Pros:
Cool name
Heat tolerant
Needs no supplemental water
Forms tidy little clump
Long-lasting yellow flowers

Cons:
Mature clumps split in the center like every other goddamn plant

The outdoor garden is finally starting to wake up for spring. But the real excitement is indoors, where the first buffalograss plug has decided to produce a runner (~60 days after germination). I still haven't beaten 15% seed germination, so these clones are definitely worth growing into plugs.

One more from the ice storm, now that we've melted out. The lingering remains of last year's flowers on a Red Osier Dogwood, cocooned in ice. #ygk

From our recent ice storm, the Northern Bayberry looked especially awesome. If you look closely you can see wax-covered white berries inside the balls of ice. 🌱 #ygk

Starting year two of my no-mow lawn experiment. These Buffalograss (Bouteloua dactyloides) seedlings were sown into a heated seed tray nine days ago (about 20% germination so far), and transplanted into plugs as soon as they were large enough to handle. They'll go into the yard mid-summer. 🌱🇨🇦

Welcome to 2025, and a winter heather peeking through the lacy snow. One of several plants we rescued from a hardware store's discount rack in high summer, labelled (and plausibly) Erica 'Kramer's Rote'. #gardening 🌱🇨🇦

With fall done and winter creeping up, there are only a few flowers left in our garden. The zigzag goldenrod is an enthusiastic self-seeder, and some of the plants don't seem to have read the weather forecast... 🌱🇨🇦

A simple idea: parse regular expressions to improve type checking on the resulting match object. Several hundred lines of #typescript type declarations later (!), I'm ridiculously happy this zero-code library works for me. Now to see how everyone else breaks it: github.com/crlfe/typed-...