Almost 10 years after I wrote the last blog post on my old blog, I decided to start something new, simple and text-based. What you see right now is the first version of my new blog. It is still a little rough around the edges, but it is here, it is online and it is 🦄!
Since this is the first post on a new blog, you might want to know a thing about me:
My name is Moritz Glantz and I live, think, develop and write in Karlsruhe, Germany. I am an Specialist for Web Accessibility and UX-Engineer with over 20 years of experience by day and a tech-podcaster and live-streamer by night.
I help organizations build accessible websites by offering accessibility talks, workshops & trainings, accessibility reviews and developing strategies for developers and management.
If that sounds like you could use my help, let’s talk! 💬
In short: because of Indie-Web, the year of the personal website and some people have been nudging me to do so. If that explanation is too sparse, let me know and I’ll write a post about it 😉.
This blog will contain posts about my work, my thoughts and the world. Against all recommendations it’ll cover of all these topics at once plus it will be bilingual. Why bilingual, you might ask? My brain works like this. The language of digital work is English. My native language is German. I mostly watch movies in English but my web-dev podcast is in German and swearing works – verdammt nochmal – best in your mother tongue 😄.
All this was achieved using great software from other people like Pico.css and 11ty. I’ll probably write a post about the process at some time.
I find writing long texts intimidating. Maybe that’s why I preferred writing threads on micro blogging platforms in the last years. And also maybe some of these old threads will appear here as posts, or I will post a thread first that then becomes a blog post. As you can see, I still have to find the right mode for myself. But to start something like this is exciting and we’ll see where it’ll go.
Thanks for reading my first post! Let me know what you think. Send me an email if you need help with accessibility, connect with me on LinkedIn if you like and consider following me on Mastodon. Let’s see what the future holds. Until then… ❤️
…and I am an Specialist for Web Accessibility and UX-Engineer with over 20 years of experience, by day and a podcaster by night.
I help organizations build accessible websites by offering talks about accessibility, workshops & trainings, accessibility reviews and developing strategies for developers and management.
If that sounds like you could use my help, let’s talk! 💬