There are different kinds of buzzwords. Some buzzwords are useful. They take a concept that would otherwise require a sentence of explanation and package it up into a single word or phrase. Back in the day, “ajax” was a pretty good buzzword. Some buzzwords are worse than useless. … | Continue reading
I went to FFConf on Friday. It did me the world of good. To be honest, I haven’t much felt like venturing out over the past few days since my optimism took a big hit. But then when I do go and interact with people, I’m grateful for it. Like, when I went out to my usual Wednesday … | Continue reading
I think of myself of as an optimist. It makes me insufferable sometimes. When someone is having a moan about something in the news and they say something like “people are terrible”, I can’t resist weighing in with a “well, actually…” Then I’ll start channeling Rutger Bregman, Reb … | Continue reading
Well, #FFConf today was a wonderful balm for the soul. The talks were excellent, and it was really, really good to see people I hadn’t seen in a while—I needed that. Thank you, Julie. Thank you, Remy. | Continue reading
I think it is beautiful if people have a purpose. But it should be valid to lead a purposeless life too. … Maybe it is okay to not pursue potential and just be okay with being. — Winne Lim | Continue reading
There’s a lot of great discussion at #FFconf about meaning and purpose, but I keep thinking about this terrific blog post by Winnie Lim on leading a purposeless life: https://winnielim.org/journal/on-leading-a-purposeless-life/ | Continue reading
The Shadow DOM discussion is happening outside #FFconf. | Continue reading
All the talks at #FFconf have been top-notch so far, but Pixel is a real highlight! | Continue reading
When a country shows you who they are, believe them. | Continue reading
Really hoping to speedrun the five stages this time. | Continue reading
Writing is the best means I have of metabolizing my own life. — Maria Popova, 18 Life-Learnings from 18 Years of The Marginalian | Continue reading
Is it too early to start planning for 2025 already? Perhaps. But you might want to add some dates to your calender: June 10th, 11th, and 12th, 2025. That’s when UX London will return! It’ll be be back in CodeNode. That’s the venue we tried for the first time this year and it work … | Continue reading
Speaking of serendipity, not long after I wrote about making a static archive of The Session for people to download and share, I came across a piece by Alex Chan about using static websites for tiny archives. The use-case is slightly different—this is about personal archives, lik … | Continue reading
I described using my feed reader like this: I would hate if catching up on RSS feeds felt like catching up on email. Instead it’s like this: When I open my RSS reader to catch up on the feeds I’m subscribed to, it doesn’t feel like opening my email client. It feels more like … | Continue reading
Angels in the architecture | Continue reading
Strolling around Strasbourg | Continue reading
Checked in at Chez Yvonne. Choucroute garní — with Jessica | Continue reading
Reading Ariadne by Jennifer Saint. | Continue reading
The Session goes through periods of getting spammed with automated sign-ups. I’m not sure why. It’s not like they do anything with the accounts. They’re just created and then they sit there (until I delete them). In the past I’ve dealt with them in an ad-hoc way. If the sign-ups … | Continue reading
Comparing web components to React is like comparing a good bicycle with a cybertruck. They do very different things, and they’re used by different people with very, very different mindsets. | Continue reading
Websites have always been tiny mutinies, perfectly designed for rebellion! — Robin Rendle, Coming home https://robinrendle.com/notes/coming-home/ | Continue reading
The datalist element is good. It was a bit bumpy there for a while, but browser implementations have improved over time. Now it’s by far the simplest and most robust way to create an autocompleting combobox widget. Hook up an input element with a datalist element using the list a … | Continue reading
Cairo in Lawrence Of Arabia, Naboo in Attack Of The Clones, Minos’s palace in Kaos. | Continue reading
Night time outdoor session with Kíla | Continue reading
Afternoon session outdoors | Continue reading
Reading 84K by Claire North. | Continue reading
I went along to this year’s State Of The Browser conference on Saturday. It was great! Technically I wasn’t just an attendee. I was on the substitution bench. Dave asked if I’d be able to jump in and give my talk on declarative design should any of the speakers have to drop out. … | Continue reading