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There have been so many advances in HTML, CSS and browser support over the past few years. These are enabling phenomenal creativity and refinement in web typography, and I’ve got a mere 28 minutes to tell you all about it.

I’ve been talking to Rich about his Web Day Out talk, and let me tell you, you don’t want to miss it!

It’s gonna be a wild ride! Join me at Web Day Out in Brighton on 12 March 2026. Use JOIN_RICH to get 10% off and you’ll also get a free online ticket for State of the Browser.

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I want to start by thanking the Automattic board, and in particular General (Ret.) Ann Dunwoody, for encouraging me to step away from the endless work of being CEO of Automattic to focus on training and development. Ann, as one of this generation’s great leaders, did it herself before recommending it. She took the course … Continue reading Leadership at the Peak →

Acquired via thrift on 2026-02-06. This machine continues my typewriter collection theme for 2026: hunting for great machines with less common typefaces. Gothic was an older word meaning san-serif. The “double” portion means that it’s two sets of capital letter forms. (Sorry James…)

Love this post from Lindsey Vonn on Instagram:

And similar to ski racing, we take risks in life. We dream. We love. We jump. And sometimes we fall. Sometimes our hearts are broken. Sometimes we don’t achieve the dreams we know we could have. But that is the also the beauty of life; we can try.

📗 Want to read The Handheld Club by Rodrigo Copetti ISBN: 9798233612978

bluesky-map.theo.io is a map of Bluesky. The creator, Theo Sanderson, posted this: I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users – see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I’ve seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail My handle is my website, verified with a DNS...

Took a long walk from the coffee shop, following the trail along the Hancock golf course.

Reading, as I do, a lot of blogs and ingesting “the web as she as spoke” as much as possible, I come across lots of jargon. Much of it is narrowly helpful, but ultimately, optional. But just a few minutes ago I came across Larry Garfield’s post Mild Dynamic Websites Are Back which led me...

Thinking more about an idea I’ve had for a while, to publish my private journal entries to my blog after 20-25 years have passed. They’d get a special post design or background color. It might feel similar to my letters from Europe page. Not quite confident enough to go for it.

Simon Willison blogging about how AI-assisted coding can actually make us feel even more over-worked:

I’ve had conversations with people recently who are losing sleep because they’re finding building yet another feature with “just one more prompt” irresistible.

Multitasking ramps up because it’s tempting to work on another feature while the AI agent is off working. Probably while waiting we should stretch or read a book instead.

In an age of abundance, restraint becomes the only scarce thing left, which means saying “no” is more valuable than ever.

I’m as proud of the things I haven’t generated as the things I have.

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Generated code is rather a lot like fast fashion: it looks all right at first glance but it doesn’t hold up over time, and when you look closer it’s full of holes. Just like fast fashion, it’s often ripped off other people’s designs. And it’s a scourge on the environment.

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I’ve seen so many times how 10 lines of code can end up being worth £millions, and 10,000 ends up being worthless.

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I would prefer if GitHub wasn’t down right now. 🙂 It has become such a critical part of everyday tasks like deploying bug fixes. Wishing good luck to the Microsoft folks who are probably scrambling to fix whatever happened.

Posted a video walkthrough on YouTube of the new full-screen editor in Micro.blog. It’s a big change and I expect there will be feedback. We’ll listen and adjust anything that we missed.

Problem in Drummer blogs. oldschool.scripting.com is now served on https and the code in the template doesn't take that into account. For example, if you try to load the home page of my blog, you won't get through because it can't open the http files in the head of the template. This is something users can fix because you get to change your template. So I'm going to stay focused on my current work.

I bloody love Lyon.

A couple of weeks back, I’m sitting at my desk when a direct message from my frontend friend Kevin Powell pops up. Kevin’s a genuinely kind guy. He makes CSS videos on YouTube and he’s got this way of explaining things that never makes you feel stupid for not knowing them al...