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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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Detective stories and tales of bughunting in software and hardware.

Sometimes bugs have symptoms beyond belief. This is a collection of such stories from around the web.

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Better than the real thing. All true too.

Refresh for more.

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Many interactions are not possible without JavaScript, but that doesn’t mean we should look to write more than we have to. The server doing something useful is a requirement for building an interesting business. The client doing something is often a nice-to-have.

There’s also this:

It’s really fast

One of the arguments for a SPA is that it provides a more reactive customer experience. I think that’s mostly debunked at this point, due to the performance creep and complexity that comes in with a more complicated client-server relationship.

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Anyone who doesn’t understand the old gods has never looked up at the sky.

— Denise Wilton

This is a great idea that I’m going to file away for later:

I like the idea of redirecting /now to the latest post tagged as now so one could see the latest version of what I’m doing now.

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LLMs are good at transforming text into less text Laurie is really onto something with this: This is the biggest and most fundamental thing about LLMs, and a great rule of thumb for what’s going to be an effective LLM application. Is what you’re doing taking a large...

When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find that far more, and far more hideous, crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.

— C.P. Snow

Monday session

I’ve been reading lots of modern takes on Greek classics. So when I saw that there was going to be a short of run of Sophocles’s Electra at Brighton’s Theatre Royal, I grabbed some tickets for the opening night. With Brie Larson taking on the title role in this production, ...

Reading The Last Song Of Penelope by Claire North.

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It’s great to see the evolution of HTML happening in response to real use-cases—the turbo-charging of the select element just gets better and better!

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It always annoys me when a politician is accused of “flip-flopping” when they change their mind on something. Instead of admiring someone for being willing to re-examine previously-held beliefs, we lambast them. We admire conviction, even though that’s a trait that has been ...

Thursday session