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Delightful technology experiences

My previous blog post on the need for link best practices for Stories, wherein I note some deficiencies with existing Stories implementations on the open web, has me thinking about the opposite end of user experience: what technology experiences or features have been delightf...

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Three quick CSS tips

Setting a 1px solid coloured border makes it easy to see how much space an element is taking up on the page, or what the CSS selector you have written selects. This is helpful in debugging where rules apply on the page. The :target selector lets you select an element whose ID has been targeted. For instance, if you are viewing example.com/index.html#coffee, the element with the ID coffee would be targeted. This is useful for adding a highlight (i.e. a background colour or a border) to the element that the page the user is visiting has linked directly to. Add line-height: 1.5 to text on the page to create more space between lines of text on the page. Learn more about line height.

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Pattern: Search aliases

When I search for the word “:laugh” in Discord, I see the :rofl: emoji. When I search for “:pumpkin” in Slack, I see a result for the :jack_o_lantern: emoji. The : key triggers an emoji autocomplete interface in these tools. Here is an example of the :laugh phrase in Discord:...

James' Coffee Blog Supports Webmention
James' Coffee Blog

Delightful technology experiences

My previous blog post on the need for link best practices for Stories, wherein I note some deficiencies with existing Stories implementations on the open web, has me thinking about the opposite end of user experience: what technology experiences or features have been delightf...

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James' Coffee Blog

Decorating

Every space has its own feeling. My bedroom feels like a place to rest. With that feeling of rest, I often find the comfort to write. I am writing this blog post while the fairy lights on the wall illuminate my room. I’m warm under the blankets. I feel comfortable. The offi...

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Decorating

Every space has its own feeling. My bedroom feels like a place to rest. With that feeling of rest, I often find the comfort to write. I am writing this blog post while the fairy lights on the wall illuminate my room. I’m warm under the blankets. I feel comfortable. The offi...

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Communication and understanding

I was speaking with someone this week for whom English is their second language. We started talking about mathematics. I mentioned the word “logarithms”. The person with whom I was talking then said they didn’t understand the word. This instantly reminded me of an almost iden...

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Change

A little thing I wrote in my notes recently: To push for things to stay the same means you miss out on all the richness that can come from novelty — to miss out on all the stories one could have lived. This very post is pushing to try something new; to share a note as yet undeveloped, with only the knowledge that I feel I will be reflecting on it for many years. As the years pass I appreciate the beauty of the changing seasons more, and all of the new-to-me things I see within each.

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Full bloom

“From fear the plant was a weed to three beautiful pink blossoms. With each development – seeing the starting signs of a bud, the bud opening, blooming – I have felt joy.” I wrote in September 2023. My blog has become a de facto log for the pink flowers that grow outside. Whe...

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What I made for HTML Day

There were two online HTML Day events yesterday, one for the Oceania timezone – which was in the morning for me here in the UK – and one in the evening for European timezones. I was determined to attend both, excited about the idea of spending my weekend making two new HTML p...

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Colour

This is my entry for this month’s IndieWeb Carnival. The topic is colour. I think a lot about colour. I used to wear Hawaiian shirts almost every day. I like the colours, I thought to myself. Especially on a grey morning, colour makes all the difference. The colours made me...

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A wooden love heart and a pot of flowers

The Guardian has a series where they ask a question and collate a few of the responses. A recent prompt caught my eye: “have you found anything unexpected when you moved into your new home?”. When I read this prompt, I got to writing. My response is below. I submitted it to T...

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We’re in England. Two days ago we met Jasper and he took us on a walk along the Seven Sisters cliffs between Eastbourne and Brighton. It was great meeting in person and talk, take photos and getting rained on. And while I’m only hoarding negatives, he has photos posted to his blog.

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The Vision for W3C has been officially published as a ratified W3C Statement: https://www.w3.org/TR/2025/STMT-w3c-vision-20250729/As one of the editors, along with Chris Wilson (@cwilso.com @cdub@mastodon.social), I’m both proud of this multi-year W3C Advisory Board (AB) effo...

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Last Sunday, I’ve been out photographing with Florian again. Photos here and here.

Matthias Ott Valid

… aaaand two months after the warranty expired, the Bosch CityMower is dead. 😔 I had mustered all the choice-supportive bias that’s in me to make me believe for a little while that although the thing felt like plastic trash, it is “lightweight” and that “it’s a Bosch.” I should have known better … ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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🎬 12 Angry Men

Movie poster for “12 Angry Men”.

Pretty perfect movie, if you ask me. The 12 more or less angry men are all so good. The whole concept of only talking about a murder case after the trial, surfacing ever more details and eliciting more of the jurors characters, was so good. Suspenseful and entertaining. A timeless classic.