And here’s a small favour I’d love to ask: If you’ve seen me speak and have a few kind words to share – a short testimonial about your experience – I’d be genuinely thankful if you wrote me. It would mean a lot and help others know what to expect. 🙏💚
I finally did it: I now have a speaking page on my site. 🎤🎉
If you’re looking for someone to talk about design, the web, CSS, accessibility, or the independent web at your event, that’s where you’ll find what I do, what I’ve spoken about, and how to get in touch:
Warm tea
I like to put my hands over the top of a cup of warm tea. I enjoy the warmth, and want to hold onto it for as long as possible.
Whether I am holding a textbook or exploring blogs, if I have a cup of tea by my side I want to feel its warmth. As I write, I am sitting next to a warm cup of tea, resting on the arm of my chair. The vibration of movement as I type creates a gentle ripple on the water, a ripple that reminds me of the calm river where I spent time last weekend. It is amazing what there is to see in the ordinary.
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23.03.2026
Brainstorming web guides
I am interested in the field of content design, which thinks of information as not only what it represents (i.e. facts) but how that information is represented. The UK Government says:
Good content design allows people to find out what they need to know or do quickly.
When I...
Interface stability
The main Artemis interface has remained largely the same since I made the software available for others to use. Here is the interface in December 2024. Here is the interface in 2026 [^1] [^2]:
The Artemis web reader showing a list of posts under the heading "Friday, March 27...
Gardening
At Front End Study Hall yesterday there was a discussion about what endeavours are similar to web development. There was a particularly rich discussion (documented in the afore-linked notes) related to gardening and web development. My takeaway from the discussion was that b...
Single-file web applications
A few weeks ago I made Amie, an application for keeping track of who you meet at conferences. Amie lets you create an event, then add people by name and/or domain, Mastodon, or BlueSky handle. 1
I was inspired to build Amie because I went to a web meetup a few months ago wh...
31 years.
For the kids: That’s a dad joke referring to a line from a hip-hop track from 31 years ago.
I just had to … ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
#shimmyshimmyya
On Saturday, I’ll be live on stage with Brutal Unrest again.
@chriscoyier @davatron5000 Thanks for the shout out on my favorite podcast! 🤗 The issue in my case was indeed an incredibly large number of crawler bots from different countries, all brute-force attacking my notes section with tags in the URL params. They also completely ignored nofollow and canonical. The majority were coming from Singapore, later Taiwan. So I still have no idea why my hosting provider decided to block Canada. 😆
The new YouTube video player allows playing videos in full screen mode when launched from a PWA on iPad. No more opening an extra FeedCity tab in the browser just to watch the videos I bookmarked to watch during lunch break.
22.03.2026
The artist was here
I love the storytelling work that the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York does. For example, the Frame of Mind podcast highlights short stories of people’s relationships with museums – around fifteen minutes long each. It is a great listen.
Last year, I watched a video b...
21.03.2026
Release 1.2.0 of Webmention for Craft CMS adds a “Failed Webmentions” view for easier debugging and retrying with one click. 🎉
https://github.com/matthiasott/webmention/releases/tag/v1.2.0