Watching @CarolStran rock the stage. | Continue reading
Checked in at Bier’s Mini 7. Currywurst — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checked in at Café am Neuen See. Biergarten im Tiergarten — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checked in at Zum Patzenhofer. Nachtisch — with Jessica | Continue reading
Fiddlers Roger, Rob, and Frances. | Continue reading
Checked in at The Bugle Inn. Sunday afternoon session | Continue reading
Sunday Samba street party in Hanover. | Continue reading
Checked in at The Greys. Sunday roast — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checked in at Eurostar Terminal. Leaving Amsterdam — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checking out of the hotel and saying goodbye to the hotel cat. | Continue reading
Strolling around the canals of Amsterdam at dusk. | Continue reading
A blast from the past—my ancient “pattern primer” (a proto component library) in @StephenHay’s closing @CSSdayConf talk! | Continue reading
Getting ready to open @CSSdayConf 2022! | Continue reading
Cruising the canals of Amsterdam with a bunch of CSS nerds. | Continue reading
I love this picture of my grandmother—my mother’s mother who passed away before I was born. She’d play button box and fiddle at the harvest dances. | Continue reading
Checked in at Rob Roy Bar. Sunday afternoon session and a pint of Murphys — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checked in at Jolly Brewer. Fiddletastic! 🎻🎶☘️ — with Jessica | Continue reading
Reading A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine. | Continue reading
Listening to @FretFed — the Fretful Federation Mandolin Orchestra. | Continue reading
When I wrote about the idea of declarative design it really resonated with a lot of people. I think that there’s a general feeling of frustration with the imperative approach to designing and developing—attempting to specify everything exactly up front. It just doesn’t scale. As … | Continue reading
A good design system should encourage standardisation but not homogenisation. | Continue reading
Reminder: the ticket prices for @UXLondon go up after this Friday, June 3rd, so if you’re planning on coming, be sure to get your ticket this week: https://ti.to/clearleft/ux-london-2022 See you there! https://2022.uxlondon.com/ | Continue reading
There’s a lot of emphasis put on decision-making: making sure you’re making the right decision; evaluating all the right factors before making a decision. But we rarely talk about revisiting decisions. I think perhaps there’s a human tendency to treat past decisions as fixed. Tha … | Continue reading
Checked in at The Bugle Inn. Sunday session 🎶☘️🎻 | Continue reading
Another day, another transphobic opinion piece in The @Guardian. This was the final straw. I’ve cancelled my account. | Continue reading
Checked in at Brighton. On the beach — with Jessica | Continue reading
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