The line-up at this year’s Glastonbury reminded me of this classic exchange in the @Clearleft@mastodon.social studio: https://adactio.com/journal/1702 | Continue reading
Checked in at The Fiddler’s Elbow. Monday night session ☘️ | Continue reading
Bidding farewell to London after an absolutely brilliant #UXLondon! | Continue reading
Clipboard: ✅ Hi-viz vest: ✅ I’m ready for #UXLondon! | Continue reading
Every week of June sees me at a web event, but in a different capacity each time. At the end of the first full week in June, I went to CSS Day in Amsterdam as an attendee. It was thought-provoking, as always. And it was great to catch up with my front-of-the-front-end friends. La … | Continue reading
Reminder: if you’re using the Web Share API on a website, I’d love to hear your use case: https://github.com/adactio/share-button-type/issues/1 | Continue reading
I’ve been banging the drum for a button type="share" for a while now. I’ve also written about other potential button types. The pattern I noticed was that, if a JavaScript API first requires a user interaction—like the Web Share API—then that’s a good hint that a declarative opti … | Continue reading
If anybody’s already in Bristol for #PixelPioneers, I’m having a cold beer outside Small Bar—feel free to join! | Continue reading
Checked in at Full Court Press Specialty Coffee | Continue reading
Checked in at Jolly Brewer. Wednesday night session — with Jessica | Continue reading
RFC 527 is still one of my faves: ARPAWOCKY https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc527.txt | Continue reading
Checked in at Dover Castle. Monday night session — with Jessica | Continue reading
I first spoke at CSS Day in Amsterdam back in 2016. Well, technically it was the HTML Day preceding CSS Day, when I talked about the A element. I spoke at CSS Day again last year, when I gave a presentation about alternative histories of styling. One of the advantages to having s … | Continue reading
Today was a good day. The weather was beautiful. Jessica and I did a little bit of work in the garden—nothing too sweaty. Then Jessica cut my hair. It looks good. And it feels good to have my neck freed up. We went for a Sunday roast at the nearest pub, which does a most excellen … | Continue reading
So long and thanks for all the bitterballen! Another excellent #CSSday! | Continue reading
Building a personal site is a radical act in 2023. — @sophie@social.lol CSS Day 2023 | Continue reading
Reading Babel by R.F. Kuang. | Continue reading
It all started with a trip into the countryside one Sunday a few weeks back. The weather has been getting better and better. The countryside was calling. Meanwhile, Jessica was getting worried about her newly-acquired driving skills getting rusty. She has her license, but doesn’t … | Continue reading
Checked in at The Ancient Mariner. Lovely, lovely tunes! — with Jessica | Continue reading
Reading City Of Illusions by Ursula K. Le Guin. | Continue reading
It’s often said that it’s easier to make a fast website than it is to keep a website fast. Things slip through. If you’re not vigilant, performance can erode without you noticing. It’s a similar story for other invisible but important facets of your website: privacy, security, ac … | Continue reading
Sure, the Succession finale was good, but hot damn, the University Challenge final was terrific! | Continue reading
In just a couple of weeks, I’ll be heading to Bristol for Pixel Pioneers. The line-up looks really, really good …with the glaring exception of the opening talk, which I’ll be delivering. But once that’s done, I’m very much looking forward to enjoying the rest of the day’s talks. … | Continue reading
Getting ready to cèilidh’n’roll! | Continue reading
Checked in at The Lord Nelson Inn. Last Thursday of the month — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checked in at Jolly Brewer. Wednesday night session — with Jessica | Continue reading
I’ll be part of the Pooka Cèilidh Band providing music for the Candlelight Cèilidh this Sunday. There’ll be all sorts of witchy shit. https://www.brightonfringe.org/events/the-candlelight-ceilidh/ | Continue reading
I must admit, when Jake told me he was leaving Google, I got very worried about the future of the View Transitions API. To recap: Chrome shipped support for the API, but only for single page apps. That had me worried: If the View Transitions API works across page navigations, i … | Continue reading
Checked in at Jolly Brewer. Wednesday night session — with Jessica | Continue reading
Back in November of last year I announced that UX London would be returning in 2023 and that I’d be curating the line-up again. That’s where I’ve been putting a lot of my energy over the last six months. The line-up is complete. If I step back and try to evaluate it objectively, … | Continue reading
Reading Planet Of Exile by Ursula K. Le Guin | Continue reading
I’m sure you’ve heard the law of the instrument: when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. There’s another side to it. If you’re selling hammers, you’ll depict a world full of nails. Recent hammers include cryptobollocks and virtual reality. It wasn’t enough fo … | Continue reading
Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree If mankind perished utterly; And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn, Would scarcely know that we were gone. — Sara Teasdale, There Will Come Soft Rains | Continue reading
I was up in Edinburgh for the past few days at the Design It; Build It conference. I was supposed to come back on Saturday but then the train strikes were announced so I changed my travel plans to avoid crossing a picket line, which gave me an extra day to explore Auld Reekie. I … | Continue reading
Reading The Intelligence Illusion by Baldur Bjarnason. | Continue reading
Checked in at Maison de Moggy. — with Jessica | Continue reading
Reading Rocannon’s World by Ursula K. Le Guin. | Continue reading
You meet with a Facebook person and you see in their eyes they’re psychotic. The Apple person kind of listens but then does what it wants to do. The Google person honestly thinks what they’re doing is the best thing. — Anon | Continue reading