Very, very good news indeed! 👏👏👏https://twitter.com/jaffathecake/status/1588839787229609985 | Continue reading
I am simultaneously very excited and very nervous about the View Transitions API. You may know it by its former name—Shared Element Transitions. The name change is very recent. I’ve been saying for years that some kind of API like this would be brilliant: I honestly think if br … | Continue reading
I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details, the way a planet looks smooth from orbit. — Ursula K. Le Guin, Solitude | Continue reading
All the speakers at #LDconf today were wonderful! | Continue reading
Time to introduce another trio of wonderful design leaders at #LDconf. | Continue reading
Getting ready to introduce the next trio of designers at #LDconf. | Continue reading
I spent Friday morning in band practice with Salter Cane. It was productive. We’ve got some new songs that are coming together nicely. We’re still short a drummer though, so if you know anyone in Brighton who might be interested, let me know. As we were packing up, we could here … | Continue reading
🎶 The Roebucks 🎶 and 🎶 Sea Power 🎶 | Continue reading
Checked in at The Bugle Inn. Sunday session — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checked in at Haus On The Hill. Sunday Roast — with Jessica | Continue reading
It’s been almost two years since I added audio playback on The Session. The interface is quite straightforward. For any tune setting, there’s a button that says “play audio”. When you press that button, audio plays and the button’s text changes to “pause audio.” By updating the b … | Continue reading
If you watch this video at 0.5 playback speed, it sounds like a angry drunk hobo slurring his speech has wandered onto the stage—so much better that way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8q03gUCB690 | Continue reading
Checked in at The Lord Nelson Inn. Monthly session in The Nelson 🎶 | Continue reading
Checked in at Jolly Brewer. Wednesday night session 🎶🎻☘️ — with Jessica | Continue reading
Speaking of in-person gatherings, I’ve got some exciting—if not downright nervewracking—events coming up soon. Next week I’ll be in London for Leading Design. Looking at the line-up that Rebecca is assembled, I’m kind of blown away—it looks fantastic! You’ll notice that I’m in th … | Continue reading
I had fun on the weekend, hanging out with my buddy Cider. | Continue reading
Checked in at Dover Castle. Sessioning — with Jessica | Continue reading
I’ve had the opportunity to gather with my peers a few times over the past couple of months. There was dConstruct, which I hosted. That was just lovely. Then a few weeks ago, in spite of train strikes and travel snags, I went to Bristol to give a talk at Web Dev Conf, a really ni … | Continue reading
Reading The Unreal And The Real: Selected Stories Volume 2: Outer Space, Inner Lands by Ursula K. Le Guin. | Continue reading
Another shout-out to Utopia.fyi! #SotB2022 | Continue reading
Shout-out to Utopia.fyi! #SotB2022 | Continue reading
A recurring theme in my writing and talks is “lay off the JavaScript, people!” But I have to make a conscious effort to specify that I mean client-side JavaScript. I thought it would be obvious from the context that I was talking about the copious amounts of JavaScript being ship … | Continue reading
Coco demonstrates correct laptop usage. 💻 🐈#NotMyCat | Continue reading
There’s a repeated catchphrase used throughout Christopher Nolan’s film Tenet: ignorance is our ammunition. There are certainly situations where knowledge is regrettable. The somewhat-silly thought experiment of Roko’s basilisk is one example. Once you have knowledge of it, you c … | Continue reading
Checked in at Dover Castle. Monday night session — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checked in at The Brunswick. Ye Vagabonds — with Jessica | Continue reading
Reading Patternmaster by Octavia E. Butler. | Continue reading
Pub lunch in the countryside (with dog). | Continue reading
dConstruct 2022 was great fun. It was also the last ever dConstruct. If you were there, and you’d like to re-live the magic, the audio from the talks is now available on the dConstruct Archive. Here they are: George Oates Lauren Beukes Daniel Burka Sarah Angliss Matt Webb Seb Le … | Continue reading
Lovely tunes at The Star tonight. | Continue reading
Got a good haul from Bristol’s second-hand bookshops. 📚 | Continue reading
Checked in at The Star Inn. Sessioning in Brizzle | Continue reading
Playing in a session in Charlie’s, my old watering hole in Cork from my Art College days three decades ago. | Continue reading
Checked in at Charlie’s. Back in Charlie’s after 30 years, this time for a session — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checked in at An Spailpín Fánach. Cork Folk Festival, like | Continue reading
I wrote recently about making the switch to logical properties over on The Session. Initially I tried ripping the band-aid off and swapping out all the directional properties for logical properties. After all, support for logical properties is green across the board. But then I g … | Continue reading
Checked in at An Spailpín Fánach. Sliabh Luachra abú! — with Jessica | Continue reading
Up and about in the morning. | Continue reading
As you can probably tell from the stuff I’ve been linking to today and today’s Clearleft newsletter, I’ve got design systems on my mind. What I like about design systems is they encourage systems thinking …in theory. I mean, it’s right there in the name, right? But in practice I … | Continue reading