Checked in at Dover Castle. Monday night session — with Jessica | Continue reading
I’m not feeling optimistic about Chrome shipping the View Transitions API for multi-page apps: https://staging.bsky.app/profile/jakearchibald.com/post/3jueu5etwpk24 The clock is ticking. https://adactio.com/journal/19573 | Continue reading
There are two kinds of time-travel stories. There are time-travel stories that explore the many-worlds hypothesis. Going back in time and making a change forks the universe. But the universe is constantly forking anyway. So effectively the time travel is a kind of universe-hoppin … | Continue reading
I did an episode of the Clearleft podcast on innovation a while back: Everyone wants to be innovative …but no one wants to take risks. The word innovation is often bandied about in an unquestioned positive way. But if we acknowledge that innovation is—by definition—risky, then … | Continue reading
Checked in at Jolly Brewer. Fiddletastic! | Continue reading
Looking forward to going to Edinburgh to host the DiBi conference next week: https://dibiconference.com/ I’ve spoken at the event before but this will be my first time MCing it. Hope to see you there! | Continue reading
Web performance is an unalloyed good. No one has ever complained that a website is too fast. So the benefit is pretty obvious. Users like fast websites. But there are other benefits to web performance. And they don’t all get equal airtime. Business A lot of good web performance p … | Continue reading
If you’re voting in the local elections tomorrow, this is a very handy website to help you vote tactically to keep the tories out: https://stopthetories.vote/ | Continue reading
If you were thinking of adding a service worker to your website, the paperback version of my book Going Offline is available for a 25% discount right now: https://abookapart.com/products/going-offline Just sayin’. | Continue reading
That’s a helluva line-up for this year’s UX London, if I do say so myself: https://2023.uxlondon.com/speakers/ It’s going to be an excellent two days of talks and workshops! | Continue reading
Checked in at The Fiddler’s Elbow. Monday night session ☘️ | Continue reading
I find myself awestruck by a single short word—“was”. The word appears in the opening sentence of the Wikipedia article on smallpox. What an amazing achievement wrapped up in those three letters! We can be brilliant. | Continue reading
Spring is arriving. It’s just taking its time. There are little signs. Buds on the trees. The first asparagus of the year. Daffodils. Changing the clocks. A stretch in the evenings. But the weather remains, for the most part, chilly and grim. Reality is refusing to behave like a … | Continue reading
Checked in at The Lord Nelson Inn. A good session on a rainy night in Brighton — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checked in at Jolly Brewer. Great tunes at the Wednesday night session — with Jessica | Continue reading
While I’m talking about the SVGs on The Session, I thought I’d share something else related to the rendering of the sheet music. Like I said, I use the brilliant abcjs JavaScript library. It converts ABC notation into sheet music on the fly, which still blows my mind. If you view … | Continue reading
Two weeks ago, I wrote: I woke up today to a very annoying new bug in Firefox. The browser shits the bed in an unpredictable fashion when rounding up single pixel line widths in SVG. That’s quite a problem on The Session where all the sheet music is rendered in SVG. Those thin … | Continue reading
Gave blood again. ❤️🩸🅾️ https://adactio.com/journal/19817 I recommend it: https://www.blood.co.uk/ | Continue reading
Checked in at The Round Georges. An unexpected session — with Jessica | Continue reading
Reading A Thousand Ships by Natalie Hynes. | Continue reading
Before The Situation, I used to work in the Clearleft studio quite a bit. Maybe I’d do a bit of work at home for an hour or two before heading in, but I’d spend most of my working day with my colleagues. That all changed three years ago: Clearleft is a remote-working company ri … | Continue reading
Checked in at Carnezzeria. One last meal in Ortigia — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checked in at Boats. Having a beer in an alley (which somehow here is much more glamorous than it sounds) — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checked in at Casa Trimarchi. Delizioso! — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checked in at Antico Mercato di Ortigia. Pesce — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checked in at Caseificio Borderi. Sandwich at the market — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checked in at Ristorante Regina Lucia. Tasting menu — with Jessica | Continue reading
Afternoon in Ortigia. ⬛ ⛲️ ⛪️ | Continue reading
Checked in at Boats. Digestif — with Jessica | Continue reading
The most cartoonish misrepresentation of progressive enhancement is that it means making everything work without JavaScript. No. Progressive enhancement means making sure your core functionality works without JavaScript. In my book Resilient Web Design, I quoted Wilto: Lots of … | Continue reading
Had a nice salad for lunch, made with this morning’s haul from the Ortigia market. | Continue reading
Checked in at Fratelli Burgio. Pistachio croissant — with Jessica | Continue reading
Reading The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller. | Continue reading
Reading Make Something Wonderful:Steve Jobs in his own words by The Steve Jobs Archive. | Continue reading
Checked in at Viola Espressobar. Cappuccino and croissant — with Jessica | Continue reading
Robin penned a little love letter to the details element. I agree. It is a joyous piece of declarative power. That said, don’t go overboard with it. It’s not a drop-in replacement for more complex widgets. But it is a handy encapsulation of straightforward progressive disclosure. … | Continue reading
Checked in at The Crab Tree Inn. In deepest darkest Shoreham for a session 🪕 — with Jessica | Continue reading
I woke up today to a very annoying new bug in Firefox. The browser shits the bed in an unpredictable fashion when rounding up single pixel line widths in SVG. That’s quite a problem on The Session where all the sheet music is rendered in SVG. Those thin lines in sheet music are k … | Continue reading