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On the beach

Sunday morning session

Some really great advice here:

• Use native layout systems
• Start with semantic HTML
• Use fluid type with fluid space
• Always bet on progressive enhancement
• Trust the browser
• Ditch the “physical” CSS

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Backyard oranges

Every UI control you roll yourself is a liability. You have to design it, test it, ship it, document it, debug it, maintain it — the list goes on.

It makes you wonder why we insist on rolling (or styling) our own common UI controls so often. Perhaps we’d be better off asking: What are the fewest amount of components we have to build to deliver value to our users?

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Reading Sea Of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel.

Going to San Diego. brb

Wednesday session

Tuesday session

A terrific article by James.

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Monday session

It’s been an idea for over three decades. How did the clock that will run for 10,000 years become a reality?

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Playing Lucy Campbell, The Providence and Greig’s Pipes (reels) on mandolin with fiddles, flute, and pipes:

https://thesession.org/members/1/sets/95567

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lV3eHtPnss

With the release of a new Salter Cane album I figured it was high time to update the design of the band’s website. Here’s the old version for reference. As you can see, there’s a connection there in some of the design language. Even so, I decided to start completely from sc...

Ó Lá Fhéile Bríde amach, Bíonn na héin ag déanamh nead, Bíonn na caoire ag breith na n-uan, Is an lá ag dul i bhfad.

Friday morning kitchen session

Lighthouse says https://saltercane.com is 🎉 💯💯💯💯 🎉

Just heard the sad news that Marianne Faithful has passed away.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHrsv0NVa6k

Back in July 2023 I went into the studio along with the rest of Salter Cane. We had been practicing a whole lot of new songs for over a year beforehand. Now we were ready to record them. We went in with a shared approach. We were going to record everything live. We were go...

Giving the Salter Cane website a fresh lick of paint:

https://saltercane.com/

• Springy easing with linear()
• Typed custom properties
• View transitions for page navigation
• Transition animation for dialog and popover
• Transition animation for details
• Animated adaptive gradient text

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I’m going to share this with the organisers of that conference I pulled out of recently.

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Yesterday I watched Martin Scorsese’s Rolling Thunder Revue.

Today I’m watching Martin Scorsese’s The Last Waltz.

The highlight in both of them is when Joni Mitchell sings Coyote.

Really enjoying Dreamytime Escorts + Patients at The Albert

I’ve been tagged in a good ol’-fashioned memetic chain letter, first by Jon and then by Luke. Only by answering these questions can my soul find peace… Why did you start blogging in the first place? All the cool kids were doing it. I distinctly remember thinking it was far...

If I was only able to give one bit of advice to any company: iterate quickly on a slow-moving platform.

Excellent advice from Harry (who first cast his pearls before the swine of LinkedIn but I talked him ‘round to posting this on his own site).

1. Opt into web platform features incrementally
2. Embrace progressive enhancement to build fast, reliable applications that adapt to your customers’ context
3. Write code that leans into the browser, not away from it

I’m not against front-end frameworks, and, believe me, I’m not naive enough to believe that the only thing a front-end framework provides is soft navigations, but if you’re going to use one, I shouldn’t be able to smell it.

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Reading Short Stories In Irish by Olly Richards.

Wednesday session

I’m going to be hosting Research By The Sea on Thursday, February 27th right here in Brighton. I’m getting very excited and nervous about it. The nervousness is understandable. I want to do a good job. Hosting a conference is like officiating a wedding. You want to put peop...

Some interesting experiments in web typography here.

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