Still thinking about these good doggos from Bark In The Park yesterday. | Continue reading
I’m taking a nice long weekend break after dConstruct on Friday (I will of course have more to say on that—I’m collecting my thoughts still—but it was a wonderful day). On Saturday I did absolutely nothing. It was just as well really, considering that I may have over-indulged in … | Continue reading
Checked in at The Bugle Inn. Sunday session 🎻🎶☘️ | Continue reading
Not my cat, but I’m very fond of her. | Continue reading
Checked in at Dover Castle. Tuesday session 🎶🎻 — with Jessica | Continue reading
Not long now until the last ever dConstruct. It’s on Friday of next week, that’s the 9th of September. And there are still a few tickets available if you haven’t got yours yet. I have got one update to the line-up to report. Sadly, Léonie Watson isn’t going to be able to make it … | Continue reading
Checked in at The Bugle Inn. Sunday afternoon session 🎶🎻 — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checked in at The Lord Nelson Inn. Starting the session ☘️🎶 — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checked in at Jolly Brewer. Session night! 🎻 — with Jessica | Continue reading
Ever had those “college thoughts” like, “Hey, what if, like, my red is, like, your blue, man?” Well, join in this experiment to collect data on our perception consensus: https://perceptioncensus.dreamachine.world/ | Continue reading
Checked in at Jolly Brewer. Wednesday night session — with Jessica | Continue reading
The last ever dConstruct will happen just over three weeks from now, on Friday, September 9th. That’s right—if you don’t have your ticket for this event, you won’t get another chance. The conference with its eye on the future will become a thing of the past. dConstruct is going t … | Continue reading
When I wrote about democratising dev, I made brief mention of the growing “no code” movement: Personally, I would love it if the process of making websites could be democratised more. I’ve often said that my nightmare scenario for the World Wide Web would be for its fate to lie … | Continue reading
My website has different themes you can choose from. I don’t just mean a dark mode. These themes all look very different from one another. I assume that 99.99% of people just see the default theme, but I keep the others around anyway. Offering different themes was originally inte … | Continue reading
Eating seafood on the seafront. 🦀 🦞 🦐 | Continue reading
Checked in at Riddle And Finns. Seafood feast! — with Jessica | Continue reading
Playing some lovely tunes. 🎻🎶 | Continue reading
Checked in at Jolly Brewer. Wednesday night session 🎻🎶 — with Jessica | Continue reading
I met up with a supersmart programmer friend of mine a little while back. He was describing some work he was doing with React. He was joining up React components. There wasn’t really any problem-solving or debugging—the individual components had already been thoroughly tested. He … | Continue reading
Telling someone about the lovely line-up for @dConstruct, I realised it sounded like the set-up for a joke: “A calligrapher, a musician, and a neuroscientist walk into a conference…” https://2022.dconstruct.org/ | Continue reading
Reading The Alchemy Of Us by Ainissa Ramirez. | Continue reading
Checked in at Jolly Brewer. Wednesday night session 🎻🎻🎶 — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checked in at Dover Castle. Tuesday night session 🎻🎶 — with Jessica | Continue reading
I was talking to someone recently about a forgotten battle in the history of the early web. It was a battle between search engines and directories. These days, when the history of the web is told, a whole bunch of services get lumped into the category of “competitors who lost to … | Continue reading
Checked in at The Park Crescent. New Monday evening session ☘️🎶 — with Jessica | Continue reading
My buddy Brody is very handsome (and A Very Good Boy). | Continue reading
Reading The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel. | Continue reading
There’s an interesting Venn diagram to be made of the people in my social circles mourning the passing of James Lovelock, Bernard Cribbins, and Mick Moloney today. | Continue reading
Gave blood. 🩸 The NHS really needs more supplies right now, so if you can donate, please do: https://www.blood.co.uk/ | Continue reading
Checked in at Jolly Brewer. Wednesday evening session 🎻🎻🎻 — with Jessica | Continue reading
It’s time to end the suspense… Here’s the line-up for @dConstruct on Friday, September 9th: https://adactio.com/journal/19317 Hope to see you there! https://2022.dconstruct.org/ | Continue reading
Alright, I’ve kept you in suspense for long enough. It’s time to reveal the magnificent line-up for dConstruct 2022. I’ll now put names to the teasing list of descriptions I previously provided… A technologist, product designer, and writer who defies categorisation. They’ve hea … | Continue reading
In two of my recent talks—In And Out Of Style and Design Principles For The Web—I finish by looking at three different components: a button, a dropdown, and a datepicker. In each case you could use native HTML elements: button, select, and input type="date". Or you could use … | Continue reading
Checked in at The Bugle Inn. Sunday afternoon session ☘️🎶🎻 | Continue reading
Last night: dancing to @TheAfghanWhigs. Today: watching Der Himmel Über Berlin at @DukeOfYorks. GenX‽ Moi‽ | Continue reading
Checked in at cafe Rust. Birthday brunch — with Jessica | Continue reading
Danced my ass off to @TheAfghanWhigs tonight! | Continue reading
Won’t you meet me in the country in the summertime in England, won’t you meet me? | Continue reading
Taking @wordridden to Rathfinney for her birthday. | Continue reading
Checked in at Wingrove House. A room with a view. — with Jessica | Continue reading
Out and about in Alfriston. | Continue reading
Reading All Systems Red by Martha Wells. | Continue reading