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
I’m very excited about speaking at CSS Day this year. My talk is called In And Out Of Style: It’s an exciting time for CSS! It feels like new features are being added every day. And yet, through it all, CSS has managed to remain an accessible language for anyone making websites … | Continue reading
I went to TEDxBrighton on Friday. I didn’t actually realise it was happening until just a couple of days beforehand, but I once I knew, I figured I should take advantage of it being right here in my own town. All in all, it was a terrific day. The MCing by Adam Pearson was great— … | Continue reading
It’s a great time to be learning and investing in the primitives of the web platform over transitory framework abstractions. — Jim Nielsen | Continue reading
Reading On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder. | Continue reading
Attending @TEDxBrighton where I was treated to a charlatan peddling some NFT Ponzi scheme while spouting disgustingly dangerous cryptobollocks. I feel bad for the other (excellent) speakers to be associated with this shameless spiel. | Continue reading
Checked in at Barbican Centre. Barbicania | Continue reading
Checked in at Jolly Brewer. Session ☘️🎶 — with Jessica | Continue reading
It wasn’t that long ago that I told you about some of the speakers that have been added to the line-up for UX London in June: Steph Troeth, Heldiney Pereira, Lauren Pope, Laura Yarrow, and Inayaili León. Well, now I’ve got another five speakers to tell you about! Aleks Melnikova … | Continue reading
I almost admire the positivity of otherwise-intelligent people thinking some good must come of crypto/NFTs/web3 despite all evidence to the contrary. It’s like they’re thinking “With all this horseshit, there must be a pony in here!” | Continue reading
I see that Russell is planning to bring back Interesting this year. This makes me happy. Just seeing the return of in-person gatherings—run safely—is giving me life. I don’t think I’m alone in this. I think that lots of people are yearning for some in-person contact after two yea … | Continue reading
Hanging out in the sun with not-my-cat. ☀️🐈 | Continue reading
Checked in at Stanmer Woods. Walking in the woods — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checked in at Kito Kito. Poke bowl — with Jessica | Continue reading