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• Post #4232604

  5/9 The biggest announcement is Techopolis for Open Source at $3/month or $30/year. Qualifying projects receive three public projects, three Start Testing users, five forms, five public pages, three API keys, 1 GB of attachment storage, and GitHub import and issue sync.

• Post #4232603

  6/9 The three-user allowance only covers people working inside Start Testing. It does not limit the number of contributors a project can have on GitHub. AI is optional. Every plan begins with 10 welcome AI credits, and additional credits can be added only when they are useful.

• Post #4232602

  7/9 Techopolis for Open Source is reviewed, not automatically approved. Projects must have a public GitHub repository, be noncommercial, and display the Tested with Start Testing badge in their README. I personally review every application because I want the plan to reach projects genuinely serving the open-source community.

• Post #4232601

  8/9 This is personal to me. I am blind, and I use Start Testing with VoiceOver every day. I built it because I needed a place where accessibility was part of the foundation, not something added later. I also rely on open source every day. This plan is one way Techopolis can give something back.

• Post #4232600

  9/9 If you maintain an open-source project, work independently, or need a more accessible way to manage a project, I would love for you to try Start Testing. Read the full story: https://taylorarndt.substack.com/p/start-testing-is-more-than-testing Sign up: https://starttesting.net/signup Please share this thread with someone who needs it. #OpenSource #FOSS #Accessibility

• Post #4232599

  I know I shared a lot about Start Testing today. Here is the short version: Techopolis launched a $5 Individual plan, a $3/month Open Source plan with human review, attachments, and accessible project management. I build and use Start Testing with VoiceOver every day. If it could help you or someone you know, please take a look and share it. Read: https://taylorarndt.substack.com/p/start-testing-is-more-than-testing Sign up: https://starttesting.net/signup #OpenSource #Accessibility

• Post #4232598

  @mikedoise found Nativ, Prince Canuma’s new open-source Mac app for running MLX models locally, and we tested it together. It has a promising native foundation. VoiceOver navigation and model-status feedback need work—and open source gives us a path to help fix them. Read it, try Nativ, and help this reach Prince: https://taylorarndt.substack.com/p/taylors-teardowns-nativ Want a teardown? Launch pricing starts at $75: https://taylorarndt.gumroad.com/l/teardown #A11y #OpenSource #LocalAI #MLX

• Post #4232597

  A new Start Testing update is out today. I would love for you to try it. Start Testing is not only for QA. It also offers general project management for tasks, bugs, features, milestones, releases, accessibility findings, and team feedback. Version 1.5 keeps On Hold work out of stale reports and applies that rule to saved reports, reminders, escalation, and Needs Attention. Start free: https://starttesting.net/signup Notes: https://starttesting.net/release-notes #StartTesting #Accessibility

• Post #3335101

  Curious what others have found here. I've heard Gumroad is not accessible, but I have not had any trouble with it myself. I want to sell my book. If not Gumroad, what platforms have you found accessible and easy to maintain? What I'm after: I upload a book, people can pre-order it, and as I update it readers get an email when new chapters come out. Recommendations welcome. #Accessibility #ScreenReader #SelfPublishing #IndieAuthor #WritingCommunity

• Post #1937698

  My first big app is finally out. Perspective Transcribe is live, and subscriptions are now available. I built it because typing does not always keep up with how I think. You can record or dictate on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch, then turn audio into text. The part I use most is transcript chat. You can ask what you said, find an idea, or pull action items from a recording without digging through everything yourself. (1/2)

• Post #1172540

  I launched my personal site. taylorarndt.com. I'm offering accessibility and usability testing sessions over Zoom. One hour, $50 intro rate. I use VoiceOver, NVDA, JAWS, and TalkBack daily. Not a scanner. A real person using your product. I wrote about why I'm doing this: https://taylorarndt.substack.com/p/i-finally-have-a-personal-website #Accessibility #A11y #WebAccessibility #ScreenReader #VoiceOver #AssistiveTech #InclusiveDesign

• Post #1172539

  A blind person should be able to file a business independently. Today, something that should have taken about 20 minutes took more than 2.5 hours because the website was hard to use with a screen reader. What stood out most to me was how ordinary the task was. Filing a business is a basic workflow, and it still broke down in ways that made it much harder than it should have been. I wrote more about it here:
https://taylorarndt.substack.com/p/filing-a-business-should-not-be-this #Accessibility #D...

• Post #1172538

  This morning, I had a heck of a time with hCaptcha, so finding out from Zoom’s status page that they plan to introduce it definitely got my attention. (1/3)

• Post #1003096

  Google released Gemma 4 on Thursday. It is already in Perspective Intelligence and I have been testing it. It is a thinking model. It reasons through your question before it responds and you can feel the difference in the output. I have been using it with our tools and it works really well. I think it is one of the best models you can run on your phone right now. To find it go to Settings > AI Models > Standard On-Device > Experimental > Gemma 4 E2B. Download and go...

• Post #1003095

  @vick21 there are like 10 local AI apps on the App Store right now i've tried most of them. they're all basically the same thing -- download a model, open a chat box, type something that's it. that's the whole app. iPhone and Mac. Perspective Intelligence is different and i don't think people realize it. when you're talking to Gemma 4 or Apple Foundation Models in our app, it has actual tools behind it… (1/2)

• Post #958839

  @vick21 I built an open source CLI tool called perspective-cuts. You write Apple Shortcuts in code instead of dragging blocks in the visual editor. Code in, shortcut out. Other tools tried this before. But they fell behind because Apple changes the shortcut actions every year and those projects stopped keeping up. That's why I built this from scratch. Staying current is the whole point. It's on GitHub. Use it, fork it, tell me what's broken. (1/2)

• Post #844626

  Last year I fell in love with devices like Bee and Plaud. The idea of something that just listens and captures your thoughts while you work? That is exactly what my brain needed. But I could never find one that worked for me. I am blind. I have ADHD. My thoughts move faster than my hands. And every app I tried had record buttons VoiceOver could not find, or sent everything to a server, or interrupted the exact moment I needed to stay in flow. So we built our own. (1/3)

• Post #721321

  I got tired of jumping between six apps to answer comments. Threads. Mastodon. LinkedIn. Bluesky. Could not remember who I had replied to and who I had missed. So I built a marketing team inside my terminal. Ten AI agents. A self-hosted scheduler. One command posts to four platforms. The first draft sounded like a press release. That is the real work. Not the pipeline. The voice rules. Paid post with a free preview: https://taylorarndt.substack.com/p/i-built-a-marketing-team-in-my-terminal #...

• Post #710275

  A conversation started with: “Is there an AirDrop for Windows?” My answer was Tailscale, though that undersells it a bit. What I like most is that it replaced several annoying parts of remote access for me: • less messing with port forwarding • less dealing with unreliable sync tools • less thinking about network setup in general Now I mostly just connect to the machine I need, by name, and keep moving. I wrote up how I use it here: https://taylorarndt.substack.com/p/you-should-be-using-tailscal...