Logical properties, container queries, :has, :is, :where, min(), max(), clamp(), nesting, cascade layers, subgrid, and more.

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I went to the UX Brighton conference yesterday. The quality of the presentations was really good this year, probably the best yet. Usually there are one or two stand-out speakers (like Tom Kerwin last year), but this year, the standard felt very high to me. But… The theme...

I’m at #UXBrighton today, where the theme is UX + AI.

I’ve never seen so many smart people willingly do the hype work for venture capitalists.

No mention of where the training data comes from. No mention of the energy usage.

Thursday session

If anyone’s already in town for tomorrow’s UX Brighton and fancies some traditional Irish music on this Oíche Shamhna, I’ll playing in a session in the Lord Nelson pub from 8pm.

My Halloween costume is: sexy banjo player.

I like the approach here: logical properties and sensible default type and spacing.

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Wednesday session

This is a lovely, lovely talk from Léonie!

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These are the mornings autumn leaves are made for, bringing the colour when the sun cannot.

— Denise Wilton

Monday session

Sunday session

Writing is the best means I have of metabolizing my own life.

— Maria Popova, 18 Life-Learnings from 18 Years of The Marginalian

I really liked this short story.

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This always feels good!

UX London isn’t the only event from Clearleft coming your way in 2025. There’s a brand new spin-off event dedicated to user research happening in February. It’s called Research By The Sea. I’m not curating this one, though I will be hosting it. The curation is being carried...

Wednesday session

This is such a great project from Jon—a mashup of two books from his childhood!

Put that RSS feed in your feed reader.

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I really like the way that the thinking here is tied back to Bert Bos’s original design principles for CSS.

This is a deep dive into the future of CSS layout—make a cup of tea and settle in for some good nerdiness!

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Is it too early to start planning for 2025 already? Perhaps. But you might want to add some dates to your calender: June 10th, 11th, and 12th, 2025. That’s when UX London will return! It’ll be be back in CodeNode. That’s the venue we tried for the first time this year and...

Sunday session

Speaking of serendipity, not long after I wrote about making a static archive of The Session for people to download and share, I came across a piece by Alex Chan about using static websites for tiny archives. The use-case is slightly different—this is about personal archive...

I described using my feed reader like this: I would hate if catching up on RSS feeds felt like catching up on email. Instead it’s like this: When I open my RSS reader to catch up on the feeds I’m subscribed to, it doesn’t feel like opening my email client. It feels...

I enjoyed reading through these essays about the web of twenty years ago: music, photos, email, games, television, iPods, phones…

Much as I love the art direction, you’d never know that we actually had some very nice-looking websites back in 2004!

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This is a neat project form Dries:

This project is driven by my curiosity about making websites and web hosting more environmentally friendly, even on a small scale. It’s also a chance to explore a local-first approach: to show that hosting a personal website on your own internet connection at home can often be enough for small sites. This aligns with my commitment to both the Open Web and the IndieWeb.

At its heart, this project is about learning and contributing to a conversation on a greener, local-first future for the web.

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Friday session

Reading Atalanta by Jennifer Saint.

Wednesday session

It’s pretty easy to write bad HTML, because for most developers there are no consequences. If you write some bad Javascript, your application will probably crash and you or your users will get a horrible error message. It’s like a flashing light above your head telling the world you’ve done something bad. At the very least you’ll feel like a prize chump. HTML fails silently. Write bad HTML and maybe it means someone who doesn’t browse the web in exactly the same way as you do doesn’t get access to the information they need. But maybe you still get your pay rise and bonus.

So it’s frustrating to see the importance of learning HTML dismissed time and time again.

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Earlier this year I wrote about some performance improvements to The Session using the content-visibility property in CSS. If you say content-visibility: auto you’re telling the browser not to bother calculating the layout and paint for an element until it needs to. But you...

Back in June I documented a bug on macOS in how Spaces (or whatever they call they’re desktop management thingy now) works with websites added to the dock. I’m happy to report that after upgrading to Sequoia, the latest version of macOS, the bug has been fixed! Excellent! ...