Checked in at The Lord Nelson Inn. Thursday night session ☘️🎶 | Continue reading
Having an espresso martini and some BBQ on the roof of the @Clearleft HQ with my mate @clagnut to celebrate his 50th birthday! | Continue reading
dConstruct 2022 is happening! https://2022.dconstruct.org/ September 9th at @DukeOfYorks here in Brighton—squee! I’m putting the line-up together now and, trust me, you won’t want to miss this one… | Continue reading
dConstruct is back! No, really, for real this time. We had plans to do a one-off dConstruct anniversary event in 2020. It would’ve been five years since the event ran its ten year course from 2005 to 2015. We all know what happened next. Not only was there no dConstruct in 2020, … | Continue reading
Checked in at Jolly Brewer. Playing tunes! — with Jessica | Continue reading
I made the website for this year’s UX London by hand. Well, that’s not entirely true. There’s exactly one build tool involved. I’m using Sergey to include global elements—the header and footer—something that’s still not possible in HTML. So it’s minium viable static site generati … | Continue reading
Duck leg on white beans with sage, garlic, rosemary and olives. | Continue reading
I think it was Jason who once told me that if you want to make someone’s life a misery, teach them about typography. After that they’ll be doomed to notice all the terrible type choices and kerning out there in the world. They won’t be able to unsee it. It’s like trying to unsee … | Continue reading
The line-up for UX London is now complete! Two thematically-linked talks have been added to day one. Emma Parnell will be talking about the work she did with NHS Digital on the booking service for Covid-19 vaccinations. Videha Sharma—an NHS surgeon!—will be talking about co-desig … | Continue reading
Heard the sad news of Cathal Coughlan’s passing. I’ll be spending the rest of the day revisiting a mispent youth moshing at Fatima Mansions gigs in Cork. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnvsgWD_pAQ | Continue reading
When the daily parade of the troubles you made gets you down, just consider the fate of the wide open space from town to town. — Microdisney | Continue reading
Salad Niçoise on a nice warm evening. | Continue reading
Checked in at The Bugle Inn. Sunday session — with Jessica | Continue reading
There was a week recently where I was out and about nearly every night. One night, Jessica and I went to the cinema. There was a double bill of Alien and Aliens in the beautiful Duke of York’s picture house. We booked one of the comfy sofas on the balcony. The next night we were … | Continue reading
Checked in at Haus On The Hill. Sunday roast — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checked in at Jolly Brewer. Tunes 🎶☘️🎻 | Continue reading
BREAKING: Elon Musk to tell Twitter that in order to close this deal, they must first “Bring me a shrubbery!” | Continue reading
Check out the line up for this year’s UX London. I know I’m biased, but damn! That’s objectively an excellent roster of smart, interesting people. When I was first putting that page together I had the name of each speaker followed by their job title and company. But when I stoppe … | Continue reading
The idea that only Designers should Design strikes me as a kind of protective gatekeeping, not unlike the idea that only Priests know the word of God, and it should be spoken in Latin. — @PeterMe | Continue reading
… blogging is great isn’t it? You don’t have to write every week or every day. Just write when you have something you want to write about, and up it pops in RSS feed readers, or posted to Twitter, or whatever. Lovely. — Phil Gyford | Continue reading
I added a “notes” section to this website eight years ago. I set it up so that notes could be syndicated to Twitter. Ever since then, that’s the only way I post to Twitter. A few months later I added photos to my notes. Again, this would get syndicated to Twitter. Something’s bot … | Continue reading
Checked in at Vine Street Tap. Daydrinking — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checked in at Loam. Coffee and a sandwich — with Jessica | Continue reading
Time to go play some songs with @SalterCane. | Continue reading
Watching the livestream of @KLBouman introducing us to @EHTelescope’s image of Sagittarius A*—amazing! | Continue reading
Checked in at Jolly Brewer. Session 🎶☘️🎻 — with Jessica | Continue reading
I may have mentioned this before, but I’m a bit of a nerd for design principles. Have I shown you my equivalent of an interesting rock collection lately? If you think about design principles for any period of time, it inevitably gets very meta very quickly. You start thinking abo … | Continue reading
Walking through the countryside to the seaside. | Continue reading
Checked in at Ovingdean Gap Cafe. Stopping for an ice lolly, a nice cup tea and a sit down — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checked in at Baker Street Coffee. Flat whites — with Jessica | Continue reading
I wanna build a spaceship, go to the Moon, salvage all the junk that’s up there, bring it back and sell it. https://twitter.com/reel_geek/status/1521580826537910275 | Continue reading
I’ve added five more faces to the UX London line-up. Irina Rusakova will be giving a talk on day one, the day that focuses on research. Her talk on designing with the autistic community is one I’m really looking forward to. Also on day one, my friend and former Clearleftie Cennyd … | Continue reading
Checked in at Jolly Brewer. Duelling banjos! — with Jessica | Continue reading
Giving blood. 💉🩸https://blood.co.uk | Continue reading
A while back I wrote a blog post called Web Audio API weirdness on iOS. I described a bug in Mobile Safari along with a hacky fix. I finished by saying: If you ever find yourself getting weird but inconsistent behaviour on iOS using the Web Audio API, this nasty little hack cou … | Continue reading
Reading East West Street by Philippe Sands. | Continue reading
Checked in at The Bugle Inn. Sunday afternoon session ☘️🎶🎻 — with Jessica | Continue reading
Got a good haul of vintage sci-fi classics: Christopher Priest, Brian Aldiss, and Leigh Brackett. | Continue reading
Went to church to see @LowTheBand.❤️🎶 | Continue reading
I’ve already had some thoughtful responses to yesterday’s post about trust. I wrapped up my thoughts with a request: I would love it if someone could explain why they’re avoid native browser features but use third-party code. Chris obliged: I can’t speak for the industry, bu … | Continue reading
Checked in at Jolly Brewer. Wednesday night session ☘️🎶🎻 — with Jessica | Continue reading
Reading No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood. | Continue reading
I’ve noticed a strange mindset amongst front-end/full-stack developers. At least it seems strange to me. But maybe I’m the one with the strange mindset and everyone else knows something I don’t. It’s to do with trust and suspicion. I’ve made no secret of the fact that I’m suspici … | Continue reading
Heading to @DukeOfYorks this evening for a double bill of Alien and Aliens. But first some @LostBoysChicken wings at @Joker_Brighton… | Continue reading