Is there any kind of across-the-board best-practices guide for accessibility in web development?

(I'm thinking about tags and whether screen readers try and ignore them and whether that harms the Authentic Tumblr Experience for non-sighted people - because some of the tags are tags, but some are instead marginalia. Or, in tanb...... slime man terminology, "marg targs."

I'm aware that that particular thing's not the first priority! It's just, for optimization purposes, I was thinking I might try to ruin the subversive thrill that comes from misusing tags by classifying some tags as marg targs and thus not trying to index by them, which led to thoughts about whether the marg targs should/could be marked up differently somehow so as to be caught by screen-readers.)

I stayed up most of last night working on writing a Tumblr client from scratch in Ruby.

I know I'm just duplicating other people's work here! But I had the energy/focus for coding for once, and decided that re-learning Ruby via the process of making myself a personal Tumblr client was an appropriate expression of my frustration with life. Life and Tumblr.

Dreamwidth, please fix up and document your API, so I can make this thing work for crossposting eventually.

Python package management is terrible and needs to stop.

*Dad is watching a college baseball game.*

DAD: Do you know who this idiot is who's doing the color commentary?

ME: No.

DAD: No, Sarah, come on, do you recognize his voice?

ME: No.

DAD: No! Listen to him! Just listen! You know who this idiot is!

*It's our previous president.*

ME: Why is Bush doing the commentary?

DAD: I don't know! I don't know why they - (*Bush says something.*) - shut up!

MOM: Well, he did once own a baseball team, dear.

BUSH: This guy's a freshman.

DAD: No, he's not! You're wrong! You're always wrong!

*Bush says something about "being prepared" that I didn't hear, apparently.*

DAD: Oh, yeah, you were real prepared for Katrina, weren't you, you butthead!

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Also, someone on stackoverflow has solved the MeCab/C# problem!

Before I wade into stackoverflow with this, any suggestions? I'm trying to use the Japanese morphological analyzer MeCab in a C# program (Visual Studio 2010 Express, Windows 7), and something's going wrong with the encoding.

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Solved! Thank you, Cryovat and Tim Gebhardt!

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The term ended Thursday, so the last couple days I’ve been teaching myself Python. It logically follows. And just now I spent like half an hour creating sort a crappy roguelike with basic collision-detection! It’s less than 60 lines, it was totally easy! There aren’t any enemies because I couldn’t find an AI tutorial by someone who could spell words.

You shut up. I made a video game in twenty-six minutes. What did you do today?

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