I’ve been on Mastodon since 2017, but now my website is on there too. I’m @adactio@mastodon.social. My website is @adactio.com@adactio.com—search for adactio.com in your Mastodon client of choice. What’s the difference? Well, with my mastodon.social account, I’m syndicating stuff … | Continue reading
Buying some albums from my Bandcamp wishlist because it’s Bandcamp Friday. https://bandcamp.com/adactio | Continue reading
Brighton has a thriving Irish music scene. Some sessions are weekly—every Sunday afternoon in The Bugle and every Wednesday evening in The Jolly Brewer. Some are every two weeks, like the session in The Fiddler’s Elbow. Others are monthly, like the session in The Dover Castle and … | Continue reading
Shane MacGowan, Henry Kissinger. Swings, roundabouts. | Continue reading
The heart wants what the heart wants. The kidneys want what the liver is having. The spleen can’t decide. | Continue reading
This airport is not a place of honour. No great deeds are commemorated here. | Continue reading
Little fishies on little dishies | Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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
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
The Patterns Day website looks pretty good in the world’s first web browser: https://worldwideweb30.com/browser#https://patternsday.com | Continue reading
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
A presentation from border:none held in Nuremberg in October 2023, ten years after the first border:none in 2013. | Continue reading
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
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
What we have today isn’t AI. That’s marketing, like describing processed soya as bacon. — Nick Harkaway | Continue reading
Halfway through #FFconf and every talk so far has been great! | Continue reading
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
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
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
Ben Paley and Nick Burbridge. | Continue reading
A bracing walk along Brighton seafront. | Continue reading
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
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
Checked in at Brighton Dome. Watching Chris How at UX Brighton | Continue reading
Reading Children Of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky. | Continue reading
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
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
Tchüss, Nürnberg! Bis später! | Continue reading