Yesterday, the Web turned 30.
Thirty years ago, Tim Berners-Lee submitted a document called “Information Management, A Proposal,” his formulation of an information network for sharing and exchanging information at CERN, marking the birth of the World Wide Web. Three decades...
People like to stick to their habits. Why? Because it is safer where they are now. Following a routine, a trusted pattern, reduces uncertainty about the future and thus alleviates fear. Everything is plannable and manageable. Tomorrow is safe.
The problem is: The future is u...
If you’re riding through the suburbs in a train, you might recognize that houses usually come in two flavors. For one, there are the townhouses: Tightly packed, not too large, repeatable, convenient. And then there are the individual single-family homes which come in all for...
When you are developing a statement about something, this advice can be useful: If you can turn the statement into the opposite and it sounds like the most ridiculous thing on earth, chances are that your original statement isn’t that distinctive.
For example, if you were t...
https://superawesomecorp.com/worryingbugs/episodes/ThematicallyIndependentWeb.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Android | Google Podcasts | RSSZak and Certus talk about a group of people that are trying to blog independently together, a certain congr...
You may want to read the original Flexbox Holy Albatross post but basically, I missed a step (I was hungover): You can switch between horizontal (multi-column) to vertical (single column) Flexbox layouts just using flex-basis. No min-width or max-width needed — in fact, they...
For the last 6 or so months, I've been engaged in a number of activities including (but not limited to):
Scratching my head
Staring out of the window
Laying in bed and staring at the ceiling
Screaming into a pillow
Rolling around on the floor sweating feverishly while ...
I spent the last days of 2018 listening to an amazing podcast: Stephen Fry’s Great Leap Years brilliantly tells the story of the evolution of information technology throughout human history – from Johannes Gutenberg inventing the printing press to Alexander Graham Bell and h...
We all know that we should backup our data regularly and ideally with some sort of backup strategy but let’s be honest: Many of us don’t. Over the years, I got a bit better, but after listening to one of the highly recommended episodes of the (mainly German) Working Draft po...
Just for the sake of some links for the most part — in case you missed anything.
I helped Bulb make their new, accessible design system
Inclusive Components went from blog to book
I created a customizable generative art gallery with SVG and Vue
I learned lots about web c...
I have a confession to make. I’ve become utterly terrible at finishing books, especially non-fiction. I once even published a list of books I will definitely maybe read one day. The reasons why I don't finish them are manifold: For one, there is always some work to do that s...
Episode 3: jgregorymcverry.com
In this episode Eddie interviews Greg McVerry. We talk about how Greg has used blogging and the IndieWeb as a professor, how his kids are an important part of what the IndieWeb means to him, his website woes and finally brainstorm how private g...
Episode 3: jgregorymcverry.com
In this episode Eddie interviews Greg McVerry. We talk about how Greg has used blogging and the IndieWeb as a professor, how his kids are an important part of what the IndieWeb means to him, his website woes and finally brainstorm how private g...
Episode 3: jgregorymcverry.com
In this episode Eddie interviews Greg McVerry. We talk about how Greg has used blogging and the IndieWeb as a professor, how his kids are an important part of what the IndieWeb means to him, his website woes and finally brainstorm how private g...
Much of my career as a web designer has been spent, quite happily, working alongside programmers, engineers, people with computer science degrees. In this symbiotic relationship, each party has a secure job with a well-defined role, and gets to work on the thing they are bes...
