Author Archives: vipulgupta2048

#ask2048 On remote job hunting and what worked for me?

#Ask2048 is a short & snappy series of blog posts by Vipul Gupta documenting common questions asked multiple times. If you were sent here by someone, then you are in good company, my friend. Like most things in Mixster, these posts act as a spider web collecting insights from people that have visited before you for the years to come. And hopefully, it will continue to do so as this blog lives on.

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Boosting Web Accessibility to the next level with Azure Immersive Reader

With the sheer pace at which web technologies are evolving, frontend design & development have imploded over the past few years. The increased demand for website accessibility (a11y) is quite frankly unmatched and has left many businesses unprepared for the next billion users. With hot new tools, frameworks, concepts, and design principles being introduced every month. Features promoting accessibility often don’t find the right priority in a frontend team’s kanban boards of things to work on in a sprint.

While the developers building modern websites continue to remain burdened with features & bugs to fix on countless dependencies, platforms, and browsers. I was among them looking for effective tools that can boost accessibility using machine learning on the cloud when implemented. That’s how I came across Azure’s Immersive Reader. Read on to see what you can do with it and how exactly it integrates with your pre-built stack. In order to provide real-world accessibility features with something as simple as a few API calls (and tons of fun).

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Vipul’s no compromise minimalist remote setup: lessons in choosing your work furniture.

https://twitter.com/vipulgupta2048/status/1285905178885935104?s=20

Oh boy, what a year it has been. Started from the bottom and stayed there since Covid didn’t allow me to travel or make any purchases locally for my setup. My new job began in April, and it only took me eight months to spend the budget allocated to me and get my setup together. I spent hours in calls with support or customs. And, I just might have seen every single monitor available in the market. Nightmare? yes. Awesome setup? Also yes.

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