Waitaminute… did Google deliberately ship support for the HTTP 103 status code in Chrome version 103? Or is this a numeroligical coincidence? @PeteLe? | Continue reading
A presentation from An Event Apart Spring Summit held online in April 2022 and the opening presentation at CSS Day held in Amsterdam in June 2022. | Continue reading
Listening to a pre-release of the new @WildernessYet album and it’s wonderfully witchy stuff! | Continue reading
That event in Berlin last week was by far the largest gathering of humans I’ve been with in over two years. If I was going to finally succumb to the ’rona, this was likely to be the place and time. Sure enough, on my last day in Berlin I had a bit of a scratchy throat. I remained … | Continue reading
Giving @TheManInBlue a whistle-stop tour of Brighton. | Continue reading
I’ve been running an online community for two fifths of my life. | Continue reading
I’m standing on a huge stage in a giant hangar-like room already filled with at least a thousand people. More are arriving. I’m due to start speaking in a few minutes. But there’s a problem with my laptop. It connects to the external screen, then disconnects, then connects, then … | Continue reading
I was in Amsterdam two weeks ago for CSS Day. It was glorious! I mean, even without the conference it was just so nice to travel somewhere—by direct train, no less!—and spend some time in a beautiful European city enjoying the good weather. And of course the conference was great … | Continue reading
Playing tunes at a house session. | Continue reading
Reading The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win by Maria Konnikova. | Continue reading
Happy Valentina’s Day to all who celebrate! | Continue reading
Heard two good back-to-back talks from @Seldo and @Spolsky today …lots of grist for the blogging mill. | Continue reading
Checked in at Café am Neuen See. Strolling around the Tiergarten — with Jessica | Continue reading
Watching @CarolStran rock the stage. | Continue reading
Checked in at Bier’s Mini 7. Currywurst — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checked in at Café am Neuen See. Biergarten im Tiergarten — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checked in at Zum Patzenhofer. Nachtisch — with Jessica | Continue reading
Fiddlers Roger, Rob, and Frances. | Continue reading
Checked in at The Bugle Inn. Sunday afternoon session | Continue reading
Sunday Samba street party in Hanover. | Continue reading
Checked in at The Greys. Sunday roast — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checked in at Eurostar Terminal. Leaving Amsterdam — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checking out of the hotel and saying goodbye to the hotel cat. | Continue reading
Strolling around the canals of Amsterdam at dusk. | Continue reading
A blast from the past—my ancient “pattern primer” (a proto component library) in @StephenHay’s closing @CSSdayConf talk! | Continue reading
Getting ready to open @CSSdayConf 2022! | Continue reading
Cruising the canals of Amsterdam with a bunch of CSS nerds. | Continue reading
I love this picture of my grandmother—my mother’s mother who passed away before I was born. She’d play button box and fiddle at the harvest dances. | Continue reading
Checked in at Rob Roy Bar. Sunday afternoon session and a pint of Murphys — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checked in at Jolly Brewer. Fiddletastic! 🎻🎶☘️ — with Jessica | Continue reading
Reading A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine. | Continue reading
Listening to @FretFed — the Fretful Federation Mandolin Orchestra. | Continue reading
When I wrote about the idea of declarative design it really resonated with a lot of people. I think that there’s a general feeling of frustration with the imperative approach to designing and developing—attempting to specify everything exactly up front. It just doesn’t scale. As … | Continue reading
A good design system should encourage standardisation but not homogenisation. | Continue reading
Reminder: the ticket prices for @UXLondon go up after this Friday, June 3rd, so if you’re planning on coming, be sure to get your ticket this week: https://ti.to/clearleft/ux-london-2022 See you there! https://2022.uxlondon.com/ | Continue reading
There’s a lot of emphasis put on decision-making: making sure you’re making the right decision; evaluating all the right factors before making a decision. But we rarely talk about revisiting decisions. I think perhaps there’s a human tendency to treat past decisions as fixed. Tha … | Continue reading
Checked in at The Bugle Inn. Sunday session 🎶☘️🎻 | Continue reading
Another day, another transphobic opinion piece in The @Guardian. This was the final straw. I’ve cancelled my account. | Continue reading
Checked in at Brighton. On the beach — with Jessica | Continue reading