Monday session

Monday session | Continue reading


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Schnoozin’

Schnoozin’ | Continue reading


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Sunday session

Sunday session | Continue reading


@adactio.com | 1 day ago

This airport is not a place of honour. No great deeds are commemorated here.

This airport is not a place of honour. No great deeds are commemorated here. | Continue reading


@adactio.com | 2 days ago

Hasta luego, Málaga!

Hasta luego, Málaga! | Continue reading


@adactio.com | 2 days ago

Little fishies on little dishies

Little fishies on little dishies | Continue reading


@adactio.com | 3 days ago

After giving a conference talk, I quickly popped into Twitter to check for any mentions/questions. Honestly kind of disgusted to see people I know and (used to) respect still using the site, still supporting Musk’s racism and bigotry.

After giving a conference talk, I quickly popped into Twitter to check for any mentions/questions. Honestly kind of disgusted to see people I know and (used to) respect still using the site, still supporting Musk’s racism and bigotry. | Continue reading


@adactio.com | 3 days ago

The badges at the conference I’m at don’t use photos (or illustrations drawn by a human paid for their work). Instead Midjourney hallucinated something. It’s kind of creepy. Continuous partial ick.

The badges at the conference I’m at don’t use photos (or illustrations drawn by a human paid for their work). Instead Midjourney hallucinated something. It’s kind of creepy. Continuous partial ick. | Continue reading


@adactio.com | 3 days ago

Google is losing its smartest people faster than the Rebel Alliance lost pilots attacking the Death Star. “Lost Tiree, lost Hutch …lost Hixie, lost Jake.”

Google is losing its smartest people faster than the Rebel Alliance lost pilots attacking the Death Star. “Lost Tiree, lost Hutch …lost Hixie, lost Jake.” | Continue reading


@adactio.com | 4 days ago

Going to Málaga. brb

Going to Málaga. brb | Continue reading


@adactio.com | 6 days ago

Lost in calculation

As well as her personal site, wordridden.com, Jessica also has a professional site, lostintranslation.com. Both have been online for a very long time. Jessica’s professional site pre-dates the Sofia Coppola film of the same name, which explains how she was able to get that domain … | Continue reading


@adactio.com | 7 days ago

Sunday session

Sunday session | Continue reading


@adactio.com | 8 days ago

How green is my server?

The Session does very well in terms of performance. You can see the data from the Chrome UX Report (CRUX). What’s good for performance is good for the environment. Sure enough, The Session gets a very high score from the website carbon calculator: Hurrah! This web page achieves … | Continue reading


@adactio.com | 9 days ago

The complete line-up for Patterns Day …and a workshop!

The line-up for Patterns Day is complete! You’ll be hearing from eight fantastic speakers on March 7th 2024 here in Brighton. I really like the mix of speakers we’ve got… Half of the speakers will be sharing what they’ve learned from design systems in their organisations: Débora … | Continue reading


@adactio.com | 11 days ago

Wednesday session

Wednesday session | Continue reading


@adactio.com | 12 days ago

The Patterns Day website looks pretty good in the world’s first web browser: https://worldwideweb30.com/browser#https://patternsday.com

The Patterns Day website looks pretty good in the world’s first web browser: https://worldwideweb30.com/browser#https://patternsday.com | Continue reading


@adactio.com | 12 days ago

Here’s a transcript of the talk I gave at border:none in Nuremberg last month: https://adactio.com/articles/20290 Here’s the transcript and slides together: https://noti.st/adactio/qiJacq/slides (photo by Florian Ziegler)

Here’s a transcript of the talk I gave at border:none in Nuremberg last month: https://adactio.com/articles/20290 Here’s the transcript and slides together: https://noti.st/adactio/qiJacq/slides (photo by Florian Ziegler) | Continue reading


@adactio.com | 12 days ago

Of Time And The Web

A presentation from border:none held in Nuremberg in October 2023, ten years after the first border:none in 2013. | Continue reading


@adactio.com | 12 days ago

UX London returns in 2024

Put the dates in your dairy: UX London 2024 will be on June 18th, 19th, and 20th. Better yet, grab a ticket right now. There are super early-bird tickets available until this Friday. If you want a flavour of what to expect, check out the speakers that are already confirmed: Brad! … | Continue reading


@adactio.com | 12 days ago

Check out this cool MPA built entirely with the Light DOM: http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html Its CWVs show an FCP and LCP of 0.6 seconds, with TBT and CLS of zero!

Check out this cool MPA built entirely with the Light DOM: http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html Its CWVs show an FCP and LCP of 0.6 seconds, with TBT and CLS of zero! | Continue reading


@adactio.com | 13 days ago

Tuesday session

Tuesday session | Continue reading


@adactio.com | 13 days ago

> What we have today isn’t AI. That’s marketing, like describing processed soya as bacon. — Nick Harkaway

What we have today isn’t AI. That’s marketing, like describing processed soya as bacon. — Nick Harkaway | Continue reading


@adactio.com | 15 days ago

Sunday session

Sunday session | Continue reading


@adactio.com | 15 days ago

Halfway through #FFconf and every talk so far has been great!

Halfway through #FFconf and every talk so far has been great! | Continue reading


@adactio.com | 17 days ago

HTML web components

Web components have been around for quite a while, but it feels like they’re having a bit of a moment right now. It turns out that the best selling point for web components was “wait and see.” For everyone who didn’t see the benefit of web components over being locked into a spec … | Continue reading


@adactio.com | 18 days ago

Creativity

It’s like a little mini conference season here in Brighton. Tomorrow is ffconf, which I’m really looking forward to. Last week was UX Brighton, which was thoroughly enjoyable. Maybe it’s because the theme this year was all around creativity, but all of the UX Brighton speakers ga … | Continue reading


@adactio.com | 19 days ago

The music table.

The music table. | Continue reading


@adactio.com | 19 days ago

In the margins

John Willshire has been pondering web marginilia AKA stuff you put in your sidebar. He has a particular fondness for the good ol’ blogroll. I’ve still got my analogue equivalent on my homepage—the bedroll. It’s a list of links to people who’ve stayed over. Maybe I should also hav … | Continue reading


@adactio.com | 19 days ago

Ben Paley and Nick Burbridge.

Ben Paley and Nick Burbridge. | Continue reading


@adactio.com | 22 days ago

A bracing walk along Brighton seafront.

A bracing walk along Brighton seafront. | Continue reading


@adactio.com | 23 days ago

A memex in every web browser

When Mathew Modine’s character first shows up in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, I figured the rest of the cinema audience wouldn’t have appreciated me shouting out “VANNEVAR BUSH IN THE HOUSE!” so I screamed it on the inside. The Manhattan Project was not his only claim to fame … | Continue reading


@adactio.com | 23 days ago

It’s raining outside but I’m having a nice lazy #caturday with Coco enjoying International Uilleann Piping Day with some tunes from Colm Broderick. #NotMyCat

It’s raining outside but I’m having a nice lazy #caturday with Coco enjoying International Uilleann Piping Day with some tunes from Colm Broderick. #NotMyCat | Continue reading


@adactio.com | 24 days ago

Checked in at Brighton Dome. Watching Chris How at UX Brighton

Checked in at Brighton Dome. Watching Chris How at UX Brighton | Continue reading


@adactio.com | 24 days ago

Fiddlers

Fiddlers | Continue reading


@adactio.com | 26 days ago

Reading Children Of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky.

Reading Children Of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky. | Continue reading


@adactio.com | 27 days ago

Indie Web Camp Nuremberg

After two days at border:none in Nuremberg, it was time for two days at Indie Web Camp, also in Nuremberg. I hadn’t been to an Indie Web Camp since before The Situation. It felt very good to be back. I had almost forgotten how inspiring and productive they can be. This one had a … | Continue reading


@adactio.com | 27 days ago

border:none 2023

In 2013, I spoke at the border:none event in Nuremberg. I gave a talk called The Power of Simplicity. It was a great little event. Most of the talks were, like mine, on technical topics; design, development, the usual conference material. This year Joschi and Marc decided to have … | Continue reading


@adactio.com | 29 days ago

Tchüss, Nürnberg! Bis später!

Tchüss, Nürnberg! Bis später! | Continue reading


@adactio.com | 29 days ago

Bidding farewell to Franconian food …for now.

Bidding farewell to Franconian food …for now. | Continue reading


@adactio.com | 29 days ago

Lots of feels about the passage of time at #bordernone today. And I got a little verklempt when 15 year old Maya finished up her wonderful talk by thanking me for our video chat last week! 🫶

Lots of feels about the passage of time at #bordernone today. And I got a little verklempt when 15 year old Maya finished up her wonderful talk by thanking me for our video chat last week! 🫶 | Continue reading


@adactio.com | 1 month ago

Going to Nuremberg. brb

Going to Nuremberg. brb | Continue reading


@adactio.com | 1 month ago

Reading Trespasses by Louise Kennedy.

Reading Trespasses by Louise Kennedy. | Continue reading


@adactio.com | 1 month ago

Sunday session

Sunday session | Continue reading


@adactio.com | 1 month ago

Listening to tunes on the flute.

Listening to tunes on the flute. | Continue reading


@adactio.com | 1 month ago

Decision time

I’ve always associated good design with thoughtfulness. Like, I should be able to point to any element in an interface and the designer should be able to tell me the reasons it’s there. Those reasons may be rooted in user needs or asthetics or some other consideration, but the po … | Continue reading


@adactio.com | 1 month ago

Sunday session

Sunday session | Continue reading


@adactio.com | 1 month ago

Reading Translation State by Ann Leckie.

Reading Translation State by Ann Leckie. | Continue reading


@adactio.com | 1 month ago

Increment by increment

The bedrock of the World Wide Web is solid. Built atop the protocols of the internet (TCP/IP), its fundamental building blocks remain: URLs of HTML files transmitted over HTTP. Baldur Bjarnason writes: Even today, the web is like living fossil, a preserved relic from a differen … | Continue reading


@adactio.com | 1 month ago