Due to some unforseen circumstances (life) there won’t be a new HeroPress essay this week. Instead I’m going to tweet quotes from past essays throughout the day. In order to do that I’m re-reading each essay. I had forgotten how really amazing these are. Each week I get so focused on the new one and…
It’s been a couple weeks since the GoFundMe met its goal, so I thought I’d give an update. We raised almost $400 more than I was looking for, which is great, because there were some unexpected expenses. I got my plane ticket, and instead of $1400 it was about $1570. I also didn’t realize ahead…
I’ve been aware that my web site needs to be accessible to the blind since almost the beginning of my development career. Back then web sites were all text anyway, and that kind of accessibility was pretty simple. With the advent of images, tables, and frames, things got pretty crazy, making web sites completely unusable for…
We Should Probably Start at the Beginning I got my first computer in 1995. I used them a lot in school so that I could turn in homework to my sighted teachers, but screen readers were and are expensive so owning one was out of the question for a long time. Screen reader technology for…
This coming weekend I’m presenting a case study on HeroPress for WordCamp Milwaukee, and in September (as you ALL know!) I’m doing a presentation on HeroPress at WordCamp Pune. I’d like for both of those presentations to have some feedback from readers about what HeroPress has meant to you, or how it has affected or…
The Early Ages I got involved with computers ever since I got my first one at home in 1996. I dug into everything going on in DOS and Windows 3.11 and managed to break it all at least 20 times in a row. At one point I had decided that I need more disk space…
I’m Sunny Ratilal. Some of you may have heard about me: I’m a Core Developer of Easy Digital Downloads and have been since 27th July 2012. I’m a 18 year old guy living in London. I’ve lived there my whole life but from a young age have always had a passion for computers and the…
10 days ago HeroPress contributor Saurabh Shukla sent me an email asking that I come to WordCamp Pune, India to present about HeroPress. I didn’t even know WordCamp Pune was happening, but I had wanted to go to WordCamp Mumbai VERY much, so I was incredibly excited. My first thought was “How can I afford…
It all started with an iPod Touch When I was about 13 years old, I made my first tech purchase, an iPod Touch. This was essentially my first “computer”. I know what you’re thinking, that an iPod Touch is nothing like a computer. But to my 13 year-old mind, this was not the case. I…
Before the first essay on HeroPress I decided not to have comments enabled. I wanted each essay to stand alone as the ideas of that one person. Comments would change the message, whether they be positive or negative. Aside from that, many of the contributors open themselves up, exposing old wounds and sensitive memories. The…
