I'm a teapot

There are eleven letters between the A and the Y in the word accessibility. Someone counted them, replaced them with the number 11, and somehow that became the shorthand for an entire movement. This week on I'm a teapot, Jake gets into the origins of a11y — why the community uses it, and why, despite working in accessibility every day, it makes his skin crawl every time he sees it. Including w...

Remember when websites had loading bars and everything bounced? That was Flash. For a generation of people, it wasn't just a platform — it was the internet. In this episode Jake takes a trip back to the era of Newgrounds, Albino Black Sheep and things you definitely shouldn't have been watching at eleven years old. This episode, explore the full story of Macromedia and Adobe Flash: where i...

Jake rejoins LinkedIn after a several year break and immediately runs into three flavours of inauthenticity: AI-powered engagement bots churning out hollow comments at scale, personal grief repackaged as professional content, and mass layoffs dressed up in corporate buzzwords. What happens when a platform rewards performance over substance — and what does any of this have to do with accessibility...

Why is this show called 418 I'm a Teapot? In the first episode, Jake explores the strange, stubborn life of HTTP status code 418: how a joke protocol for internet-connected coffee pots became a real standard, why developers fought to keep it when someone tried to remove it, and how it ended up on the website of the Russian Ministry of Defence during one of the most serious moments in recent hi...