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Speaking at Web Day Out
Half of the line-up of speakers for Web Day Out is already on the site. One more is already confirmed.
I’m ridiculously excited about the way the line-up is taking shape, and judging by the zippiness of ticket sales, so are lots of my peers. Seriously, don’t wait to get you...
I’m seeing more and more companies referring to their tech stack as using “traditional machine learning” …presumably to distance themselves from the slopaganda of “AI” grifters before the bubble pops.
I’m seeing more and more companies referring to their tech stack as using “traditional machine learning” …presumably to distance themselves from the slopaganda of “AI” grifters before the bubble pops.
Wednesday session
Wednesday session
Walking the walk with https://webdayout.com/
Walking the walk with https://webdayout.com/
Reading Yellowface by Rebecca F Kuang.
Reading Yellowface by Rebecca F Kuang.
Tuesday session
Tuesday session
I am very, *very* excited about this …Web Day Out! https://webdayout.com/ A one-day event all about what you can do in web browsers today: Brighton, 12 March 2026!
I am very, very excited about this …Web Day Out!
A one-day event all about what you can do in web browsers today: Brighton, 12 March 2026!
Announcing Web Day Out
I’m going to cut right to the chase: Clearleft is putting on a brand new conference in 2026. It’s called Web Day Out. It’ll be on Thursday, March 12th right here in Brighton. Tickets are just £225+VAT. You should be there!
If you’ve ever been to Responsive Day Out or Patter...
It’s funny because it’s true https://youtube.com/shorts/8-lgJX3npiQ?si=UubNFW7tqzWBlwQp
It’s funny because it’s true
Monday session
Monday session
Atlas of Space
A nifty interactive 3D map of our solar system
The Invisibles
When I was talking about monitoring web performance yesterday, I linked to the CrUX data for The Session.
CrUX is a contraction of Chrome User Experience Report. CrUX just sounds better than CEAR.
It’s data gathered from actual Chrome users worldwide. It can be handy as pa...
You do not need “analytics” for your blog because you are neither a military surveillance unit nor a commodity trading company – This day’s portion
Databasing
A few years back, Craig wrote a great piece called Fast Software, the Best Software:
Speed in software is probably the most valuable, least valued asset. To me, speedy software is the difference between an application smoothly integrating into your life, and one called u...
Thursday session
Thursday session
Accessibility, performance, privacy, security, sustainability …some of the things I value more than “developer experience” when I’m working on thesession.org
Accessibility, performance, privacy, security, sustainability …some of the things I value more than “developer experience” when I’m working on thesession.org
I Am An AI Hater | moser’s frame shop
anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/haterdom/2025/08/26/i-am-an-ai-hater.html
I wanted to quote an excerpt of this post, but honestly I couldn’t choose just one part—the whole thing is perfect. You should read it for the beauty of the language alone.
(This is Anthony Moser’s first blog post. I fear he has created his Citizen Kane.)
Hack to the Future - Frontend - Matt Hobbs
Put the kettle on. This is a long one!
Matt takes a trip down memory lane and looks at all the frontend tools, technologies, and techniques that have come and gone over the years.
But this isn’t about nostalgia (although it does make you appreciate how far we’ve come). He’s looking at whether anything from the past is worth keeping today.
Studying past best practices and legacy systems is crucial for understanding the evolution of technology and making informed decisions today.
There’s only one technique that makes the cut:
After discussing countless legacy approaches and techniques best left in the past, you’ve finally arrived at a truly timeless and Incredibly important methodology.
Optimizing PWAs For Different Display Modes — Smashing Magazine
smashingmagazine.com/2025/08/optimizing-pwas-different-display-modes/
There’s really good browser support for display-mode media queries and this article does a really good job of running through some of the use cases for your progressive web app.
Newsletters
Ethan tagged me in a post. I didn’t feel a thing.
“I’d love to invite a few other folks to share their favorite newsletters”, he wrote.
My immediate thought was that I don’t actually subscribe to many newsletters. But then I remembered that most newsletters are available a...
Developing an alt text button for images on my website | James’ Coffee Blog
I like the idea of adding this to personal websites:
Mastodon shows an “Alt” button in the bottom right of images that have associated alt text. This button, when clicked, shows the alt text the author has written for the image.
Thursday session
Thursday session
Wednesday session
Wednesday session
Monday session
Monday session
Every Reason Why I Hate AI and You Should Too
If I were to photocopy this article, nobody would argue that my photocopier wrote it and therefore can think. But add enough convolutedness to the process, and it looks a lot like maybe it did and can.
In reality, all we’ve created is a bot which is almost perfect at mimicking human-like natural language use, and the rest is people just projecting other human qualities on to it. Quite simply, “LLMs are doing reasoning” is the “look, my dog is smiling” of technology. In exactly the same way that dogs don’t convey their emotions via human-like facial expressions, there’s no reason to believe that even if computer could think, it’d perfectly mirror what looks like human reasoning.
Did a live server migration over the weekend, switching over DNS like… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gU35Tgtlmg
Did a live server migration over the weekend, switching over DNS like…
Underlines and line height
I was thinking about something I wrote yesterday when I was talking about styling underlines on links:
For a start, you can adjust the distance of the underline from the text using
text-underline-offset. If you’re using a generous line-height, use a generous distance here too.
For some reason, I completely forgot that we’ve got a line-height unit in CSS now: lh. So if you want to make the distance of your underline proportional to the line height of the text that the link is part of, it’s easy-peasy:
text-underline-offset: 0.15lh;
The greater the line height, the greater the distance between the link text and its underline.
I think this one is going into my collection of CSS snippets I use on almost every project.
Style your underlines
We shouldn’t rely on colour alone to indicate that something is interactive.
Take links, for example. Sure, you can give them a different colour to the surrounding text, but you shouldn’t stop there. Make sure there’s something else that distinguishes them. You could make t...
I just found out that Stephanie “Steve” Shirley passed away. She was an absolute hero to me.
I just found out that Stephanie “Steve” Shirley passed away.
She was an absolute hero to me.