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A bunch of the UX London speakers have been saying very nice things about the event over on LinkedIn. I’m going to quote a few of them for my future self to look at when I’m freaking out about curating the next event… Valentina D’Efilippo: Still buzzing … UX London smas...

Grrr…

Chrome, Edge and Firefox updates usually reach 95% of users within three months. But Safari updates are tied to a new release of the underlying operating system, so they take around 19 months to reach the same usage, and some updates may even need a new device.

This is so shameful. And glad as I am to see new features landing in Safari, as long as they hobble updates like this it’s all just pissing in the wind.

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Semantic HTML? Optional. Server-side rendering? Rebuilt from scratch. Accessibility? Maybe, if there’s time. Performance? Who cares, when you can save costs by putting loading burdens onto the user’s device, instead of your server?

So gradually, the web became something you had to compile before you could publish. Not because users needed it. But because developers wanted it to feel modern.

Everything’s optimised for developers – and hostile to everyone else.

This isn’t accidental. It’s cultural. We’ve created an industry where complexity is celebrated. Where cleverness is rewarded. Where engineering sophistication is valued more than clarity, usability, or commercial effectiveness.

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This is the 95th edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Dave Rupert and his blog, daverupert.com Way back in 2023 Chris Coyier was a guest on this series and I'm happy to finally have the...

This week, the second Homebrew Website Club Düsseldorf took place. This time, 5 people attended. After a round of introducing each other including website, we once more had a good chat about a variety of IndieWeb topics. And this time, we all did some coding, too. For example, Jochen made some commits to his django-indieweb project, Mark added some rel=me links and Microformats markup, and I fixed my Atom feed’s updated date to truly show the date they have been updated (which is quite ...

But then I think of the New York skyline, The West Cork of the Yankee eyeline

—CMAT, The Jamie Oliver Petrol Station

I got access to Alexa+ today. Not sure what to do with it. Amazon has an advantage because so many people have these devices in a couple rooms of their house, but there’s not a lot of data to work with. Don’t want to give Alexa my email.

Until further notice dissent is an act of patriotism, support of and belief in our country.

Thursday session

Dave Winer blogs about Bill Atkinson and QuickDraw:

I spent many years building on his work, and many more years wishing I still was. He made a contribution, and that’s, imho, pretty much the best you can say for any person’s life.

Well said. Dents in the universe.

Bill Atkinson died last two weeks ago. I was explaining to a friend why he was so important. Most people who know of him know about MacPaint and Hypercard, both were fantastic contributions to the evolution of personal computers. But underneath all that he created a layer o...

Core Intuition episode number… 26.1?! The podcast is back for a special episode to talk about WWDC 2025.

How we might rebuild journalism from the ground up by rethinking what a newsroom is.

Everyone’s still subscribed to the Core Intuition RSS podcast feed, right? 🎙️

Dan Moren writing about Apple’s strengths at WWDC, including how adding some features like clipboard history can actually be good for third-party developers:

…the existence of Apple’s own approach actually clues users into the fact that such features exist. A user who had never before thought of having a clipboard history might find themselves wishing the feature went even further, and as a result seek out more capable alternatives.

Soon…

The other day while chatting with Kevin I was commenting on the fact that our experimental Junes are going in opposite directions. In his most recent Sunday update, he wrote that But I think the experiment won’t have as big an impact as I expected. While I wrote I’m overj...