Getting very excited about a James Webb Space Telescope Christmas ā¦but also getting nervous, remembering the Beagle2 Christmas that wasnāt. | Continue reading
Checked in at Urbano Coffee House. with Jessica | Continue reading
Reading The Road from Castlebarnagh: Growing Up in Irish Music, A Memoir by Paddy OāBrien. | Continue reading
Checked in at Grand Hyatt DFW Airport. Overnight stopover in Dallas on the way to Tucson ā with Jessica | Continue reading
All I want for Christmas is for the James Webb Space Telescope to make it to L2 okay. | Continue reading
Another five articles on modern responsive web design. | Continue reading
This was originally published on CSS Tricks in December 2021 as part of a year-end round-up of responses to the question āWhat is one thing people can do to make their website bettter?ā | Continue reading
Airlines that prioritise passenger safety cancelled their flights at @CorkAirport because of #StormBarraThen thereās @RyanAir.(Iām very glad I pre-emptively changed my booking instead of waiting for them to cancel or postpone.) | Continue reading
Reading Record Of A Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers. | Continue reading
Checked in at Jolly Brewer. Session night ā with Jessica | Continue reading
Iām really, really enjoying @RicMacās ongoing series on Web Development Historyāitās right up my nerdy alley!https://webdevelopmenthistory.com/ | Continue reading
American friends, if you plan on shopping today, make it a truly Black Friday:https://www.rebuildblackbusiness.com/ | Continue reading
When JavaScript is the first tool we reach for to solve every problem, we risk restricting access rather than expanding it.āJeremy Wagner, Responsible JavaScript | Continue reading
Reading Responsible JavaScript by Jeremy Wagner. | Continue reading
CSS logical properties here, they just arenāt evenly distributed yet. | Continue reading
Checked in at Fox On the Downs. Monday night session ā with Jessica | Continue reading
Put into strict UX terms, some things cannot be designed in a human-centric and empathetic way. And those things should not be built.āEva PenzeyMoog, Design For Safety | Continue reading
This NFT-crypto-web3 shite really is the QAnon of the tech worldāāTrust in the plan!ā, āWake up, sheepleāthe mainstream media is lying to youā, āDo the research!ā (except they hate it if you actually do the research). | Continue reading
Checked in at Jolly Brewer. A blasht of tyoons! ā with Jessica | Continue reading
Can my favourite design principle be applied to the process of design? | Continue reading
My coworker is making me sleepy. | Continue reading
Itās time to have the conversation. Youāre old enough to know where stats come from. | Continue reading
The idea that itās alright to do whatever unethical thing is currently the industry norm is widespread in tech, and dangerous.āEva PenzeyMoog, Design For Safety | Continue reading
Checked in at Fox On the Downs. Session š¶āļøš» ā with Jessica | Continue reading
I wrote these words on this day in 2013, but they feel very 2021 to me:https://adactio.com/journal/6564 | Continue reading
Reading Parable Of The Sower by Octavia Butler. | Continue reading
Checked in at The Bugle Inn. Return of the session āļøš¶š» | Continue reading
This is an example of a headline I would rewrite for clarity:https://futurism.com/moon-enough-oxygen-billions-people(there are not billions of people buried beneath the surface of the moon). | Continue reading
Remember when chatbots were definitely the future and thatās how weād be interacting with everything?So wrong! The future is certificates of ownership for JPGs generated by planet-killing magic beans, verifiable with a shared spreadsheet. | Continue reading
Medium is a roach motel. Your words deserve a better home.https://twitter.com/matlock/status/1458402577603776512 | Continue reading
Reading Design For Safety by Eva PenzeyMoog. | Continue reading
Two JavaScript frameworksāSvelte and Astroāshare a philosophy, but take subtly different approaches. | Continue reading
From the birth of the web to the browser wars. | Continue reading
A Netflix series today reminds me of something from 15 years ago. | Continue reading
Today is World Digital Preservation Day.https://adactio.com/tags/digital,preservationOn a related noteā¦Hereās where you can donate to the Internet Archive:http://archive.org/donate#WDPD21 | Continue reading
A new free course on responsive web design. | Continue reading
I published the transcript of my talk, The State Of The Web:https://adactio.com/articles/18580Hereās the video:https://vimeo.com/641568337And here are the slides:https://speaking.adactio.com/nKuSkE/the-state-of-the-web | Continue reading
Checked in at Jolly Brewer. Tunes! ā with Jessica | Continue reading