Bidding farewell to Franconian food …for now. | Continue reading
Lots of feels about the passage of time at #bordernone today. And I got a little verklempt when 15 year old Maya finished up her wonderful talk by thanking me for our video chat last week! 🫶 | Continue reading
Reading Trespasses by Louise Kennedy. | Continue reading
Listening to tunes on the flute. | Continue reading
I’ve always associated good design with thoughtfulness. Like, I should be able to point to any element in an interface and the designer should be able to tell me the reasons it’s there. Those reasons may be rooted in user needs or asthetics or some other consideration, but the po … | Continue reading
Reading Translation State by Ann Leckie. | Continue reading
The bedrock of the World Wide Web is solid. Built atop the protocols of the internet (TCP/IP), its fundamental building blocks remain: URLs of HTML files transmitted over HTTP. Baldur Bjarnason writes: Even today, the web is like living fossil, a preserved relic from a differen … | Continue reading
Eric mentioned the JavaScript closest method. I use it all the time. When I wrote the book DOM Scripting back in 2005, I’d estimate that 90% of the JavaScript I was writing boiled down to: Find these particular elements in the DOM and When the user clicks on one of them, do some … | Continue reading
Ooh, Safari on Mac supports the Badging API for websites that are added to the dock—nice! | Continue reading
I had a lot of fun making the website for Patterns Day. If you’re interested in the tech stack, here’s what I used: HTML CSS Actually, technically it’s all HTML because the styles are inside a style element rather than a separate style sheet, but you know what I mean. Also, the … | Continue reading
I know it’s pure gamification but I have to admit that I get a kick out of making Lighthouse set off fireworks by getting a clean sweep across the board. https://googlechrome.github.io/lighthouse/viewer/?psiurl=https://patternsday.com/ | Continue reading
Roll up! Roll up! Patterns Day is back on Thursday, March 7th 2024—come to Brighton to geek out about design systems! https://patternsday.com/ | Continue reading
Mark your calendar: Thursday, March 7th, 2024. That’s when Patterns Day will return for its third edition. Patterns Day is a one-day event focused on design systems. It’s for designers, developers, project managers, writers, and anyone else who’s working with design systems, patt … | Continue reading
I updated my Mac to the newest operating system, Sonama. I did this to try out the new “add to Dock” feature in Safari. It’s like the “add to Homescreen” action on iOS. Before I get into what’s good, I have to start by ranting about a big problem on both desktop and mobile: disco … | Continue reading
Going to the dentist. My appointment is genuinely for two thirty. | Continue reading
A few months back, I wrote about how Google is breaking its social contract with the web, harvesting our content not in order to send search traffic to relevant results, but to feed a large language model that will spew auto-completed sentences instead. I still think Chris put it … | Continue reading
Resetting the counter to zero on the sign that reads, “Days since wanting use custom properties inside media queries.” | Continue reading
Reading How to Make the World Add Up: Ten Rules for Thinking Differently About Numbers by Tim Harford. | Continue reading
Depositing a Kubrickian Easter egg into a codebase. | Continue reading
I enjoyed working from Spain last week, but I’m also happy to be home with my co-worker. #NotMyCat | Continue reading
I’ve had a really good, productive, fun day programming HTML and CSS! | Continue reading
Checked in at Taberna La Concha. Vermut! — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checked in at Puerta de Mérida. Dining al fresco — with Jessica | Continue reading
Playing tunes with Jessica. | Continue reading
Checked in at Asador Carlos V. Lunch on the square — with Jessica | Continue reading
The Cáceres sessions begin. | Continue reading
Checked in at Taberna El Rincón. Croquetas y vino — with Jessica | Continue reading
August was a month of travels. You can press play on that month’s map to follow the journey. But check out the map for September too because the travels continue. This time my adventures are confined to Europe. I’m in Spain. Jessica and I flew into Madrid on Saturday. The next da … | Continue reading
Checked in at La Minerva. Pulpo! — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checked in at almagesto. Lunch on the square—mogote de cerdo Ibérico — with Jessica | Continue reading
I got a nice email from someone regarding my recent posts about performance on The Session. They said: I hope this message finds you well. First and foremost, I want to express how impressed I am with the overall performance of https://thesession.org/. It’s a fantastic resource … | Continue reading