Couldn’t agree more to @kevinpowell here. And I’m really sorry for @geoff who is doing such great work at @csstricks. 🧡 What DigitalOcean does here not only sucks – it is also massively damaging their brand reputation in the community. Not cool! 😕👎
I’d still suggest a light EQ dip around 500 Hz and a high shelf boost around 8-10 kHz to help compensate for the Royal Albert Hall’s challenging acoustics and bring the solo violin forward a bit more. 😉
Flora Willson calls it “flawless musical beauty” in The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/sep/04/berlin-philharmonic-kirill-petrenko-augustin-hadelich-prom-review-beethoven-scriabin
🎻 People of the UK! (And people who know about get_iplayer!) You still have the chance to hear an extraordinary performance of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto by Augustin Hadelich and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, recorded at the Royal Albert Hall and available on BBC Sounds: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0030jmq
RNLI volunteer lifeboat crews and lifeguards have saved more than 147,000 lives since 1824.
Now they're being targeted by Fascists in black shirts and balaclavas for rescuing migrants.
I've just donated to the RNLI to support their work and let them know they're not alone.
https://rnli.org/support-us/give-money/donate
If you're in any way responsible for, or involved in the production of, digital products and services, and if you only read one thing this week, make it "Sustainable accessibility: compliance, culture, and capability", by Craig Abbot on the @TetraLogical blog:
https://tetralogical.com/blog/2026/09/14/sustainable-accessibility-compliance-capability-culture/
-Accessibility Roles and Responsibilities is a new addition to the Foundations series on the @TetraLogical blog, courtesy of Mayi Wilson:
https://tetralogical.com/blog/2026/09/08/roles-and-responsibilities/
Smart Interface Design Patterns
• Vitaly Friedman
Designing With Children, Not For Them
Children are rarely invited to take part in design. But to truly grasp their needs and perspectives, we need to engage with their thinking and behavior — through activities, games, safe environment and trusted conversations. That means involving children in co-designing digi...
How on earth did Dario find out that my secret plan was to take over the entire Internet in about 6–12 months with a giant, persistent ottnet…? 😏
Back home 🏡 from Denmark 🇩🇰
“That traditional question of political theory, 'Who should rule?', which begs for an authoritarian answer such as 'the best', or 'the wisest', or 'the people', or 'the majority', […] should be replaced by a completely different question such as 'How can we organize our political institutions so that bad or incompetent rulers (whom we should try not to get, but whom we so easily might get all the same) cannot do too much damage?'”
—Karl Popper
“Excellence is not born out of committee, and Omarchy is not a democracy. It's a benevolent dictatorship in the grand tradition of Linux, Ruby, and Rails. The dictator's job is to listen to everyone, but make the call according to their intuition, vision, and experience.”
Oh come on, David.
Excuse my French here – but with a late grandfather who co-founded a local SA group and was later let off as a “Mitläufer” thanks to a Jewish lawyer, as I recently learned, I’m done with nuance when it comes to this idiotic, wrong, and destructive way of looking at the world and life in general. #nazisraus #noAfD
Current status. 😌
Fuck the AfD and everyone who voted for them today. You should be ashamed of yourself. Fascist losers. #nazisraus #noAfD
Smart Interface Design Patterns
• Vitaly Friedman
Useful Questions For Stakeholder Interviews
Stakeholder interviews aren't just about gathering requirements or aligning expectations. They are rare opportunities to minimize the risk of things going sideways. Surely it's about understanding needs, key goals, perspectives — and everything that is needed to keep them on...
Smart Interface Design Patterns
• Vitaly Friedman
Accordion Icons: Which Ones Work Best?
What icon is the most reliable to show expansion and collapsing for accordions? Is there really any noticeable difference between carets, chevrons, arrows and triangles?
Well, research from NN/g shows that there is some difference indeed. But what's more interesting is that ...
I was in microphone heaven yesterday … 😍
Now that’s a very interesting combination … and it makes for a very interesting conversation!