After State Of The Browser, it’s time for State Of The Ballet at the Royal Opera House. | Continue reading
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My favourite bit of the archive on this site is the link that says “on this day”. It’s of no interest to anyone except me, but I love going through this little time tunnel. Using that link this month gives me a flashback to March five years ago when The Situation was unfolding. I … | Continue reading
I’ve been banging on for a while now about how much I’d like a declarative option for the Web Share API. I was thinking that the type attribute on the button element would be a good candidate for this (there’s prior art in the way we extended the type attribute on the input eleme … | Continue reading
Books for all, and roses too! https://ethanmarcotte.com/books/you-deserve-a-tech-union/ American workers, this is the book you need. | Continue reading
There’s a new proposal for giving developers more control over styling form controls. I like it. It’s clearly based on the fantastic work being done by the Open UI group on the select element. The proposal suggests that authors can opt-in to the new styling possibilities by decla … | Continue reading
Dan wrote an interesting post with a somewhat clickbaity title; This Competition Exposed How AI is Reshaping Design: I watched two designers go head-to-head in a high-speed battle to create the best landing page in 45 minutes. One was a seasoned pro. The other was a non-designe … | Continue reading
Lá Fhéile Pádraig atá ann agus mar sin déanfaidh mé stobhach Gaelach inniu agus seinnfidh mé ceol traidisiúnta na hÉireann anocht! | Continue reading
Chilling with Coco. #NotMyCat | Continue reading
Kicking off St. Patrick’s weekend with a spice bag and Murphy’s! | Continue reading
Reading Hera by Jennifer Saint. | Continue reading
Wednesday session in Amsterdam | Continue reading
I’ve been introduced to the most important staff member at this university. | Continue reading
I’ve had my head down for the past six months putting the line-up for UX London together. Following the classic design cliché, the process was first divergent, then convergent. I spent months casting the net wide, gathering as many possible candidates as I could, as well as accep … | Continue reading
Brighton is blessed with plenty of traditional Irish music sessions. You need some kind of almanac to keep track of when they’re on. Some are on once a month. Some are twice a month. Some are every two weeks (which isn’t the same as twice a month, depending on the month). Sometim … | Continue reading
Jeremy Keith, writing at Adactio: Ask anyone about their experience of using websites on their mobile device. They’ll tell you plenty of stories of how badly it sucks. It doesn’t matter that the web is the perfect medium for just-in-time delivery of information. It doesn’t matter … | Continue reading
The stage is set for #ResearchByTheSea | Continue reading
Reading Matrix by Lauren Groff. | Continue reading
From 2005 to 2015 Clearleft ran the dConstruct event here in Brighton (with one final anniversary event in 2022). I had the great pleasure of curating dConstruct for a while. I’m really proud of the line-ups I put together. It wasn’t your typical tech event, to put it mildy. You … | Continue reading
The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish. — Charlie Chaplin, The Great Dictator | Continue reading
Saturday morning band practice. | Continue reading
Reading The Heart In Winter by Kevin Barry. | Continue reading
Reading Sea Of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel. | Continue reading
Playing Lucy Campbell, The Providence and Greig’s Pipes (reels) on mandolin with fiddles, flute, and pipes: https://thesession.org/members/1/sets/95567 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lV3eHtPnss | Continue reading
Ó Lá Fhéile Bríde amach, Bíonn na héin ag déanamh nead, Bíonn na caoire ag breith na n-uan, Is an lá ag dul i bhfad. | Continue reading
Friday morning kitchen session | Continue reading
Just heard the sad news that Marianne Faithful has passed away. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHrsv0NVa6k | Continue reading
Back in July 2023 I went into the studio along with the rest of Salter Cane. We had been practicing a whole lot of new songs for over a year beforehand. Now we were ready to record them. We went in with a shared approach. We were going to record everything live. We were going to … | Continue reading
Giving the Salter Cane website a fresh lick of paint: https://saltercane.com/ | Continue reading
Yesterday I watched Martin Scorsese’s Rolling Thunder Revue. Today I’m watching Martin Scorsese’s The Last Waltz. The highlight in both of them is when Joni Mitchell sings Coyote. | Continue reading