Withdrawing from a conference I was supposed to be speaking at later this year. The line-up currently shows that out of a total of 73 speakers, a grand total of 8 are women.
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Tuesday session
Tuesday session
Progressive enhancement brings everyone in - The History of the Web
thehistoryoftheweb.com/the-inclusive-web-of-progressive-enhancement/
This is a great history of the idea of progressive enhancement:
It is an idea that has been lasting and enduring for two decades, and will continue.
HTML Is Actually a Programming Language. Fight Me | WIRED
wired.com/story/html-is-actually-a-programming-language-fight-me/
When haters deny HTML’s status as a programming language, they’re showing they don’t understand what a language really is. Language is not instructing an interlocutor what to do in a way that leaves no room for other interpretations; it is better and richer than that. Lik...
Monday session
Monday session
Your App Should Have Been A Website (And Probably Your Game Too) - Rogue Engine
Remember when every company rushed to make an app? Airlines, restaurants, even your local coffee shop. Back then, it made some sense. Browsers weren’t as powerful, and apps had unique features like notifications and offline access. But fast-forward to today, and browsers can do all that. Yet businesses still push native apps as if it’s 2010, and we’re left downloading apps for things that should just work on the web.
This is all factually correct, but alas as Cory Doctorow points out, you can’t install an ad-blocker in a native app. To you and me, that’s a bug. To short-sighted businesses, it’s a feature.
(When I say “ad-blocker”, I mean “tracking-blocker”.)
2024
There goes 2024.
It was a year dominated by Ukraine and Gaza. Utterly horrific and unnecessary death courtesy of Putin and Netanyahu.
For me personally, 2024 was just fine. I was relatively healthy all year. The people I love were relatively healthy too. I don’t take that ...
Thursday session
Thursday session
Starting 2025 as I mean to continue …with a cat on my lap.
Starting 2025 as I mean to continue …with a cat on my lap.
Athbhliain faoi mhaise daoibh go léir a chairde!
Athbhliain faoi mhaise daoibh go léir a chairde!
2024 in photos
Here’s one photo from each month in 2024
Words I wrote in 2024
People spent a lot of time and energy in 2024 talking about (and on) other people’s websites. Twitter. Bluesky. Mastodon. Even LinkedIn.
I observed it all with the dispassionate perspective of Dr. Manhattan on Mars. While I’m happy to see more people abondoning the cesspool...
CSS wants to be a system - daverupert.com
CSS wants you to build a system with it. It wants styles to build up, not flatten down.
Truth!
Books I read in 2024
I’ve been keeping track of the books I’m reading for about seven years now. I do that here on my own website, as well as on bookshop.org.
It has become something of a tradition for me to post an end-of-year summary of the books I’ve read in the previous twelve months. Maybe...
Sunday session
Sunday session
Reading Earth Abides by George R. Stewart.
Reading Earth Abides by George R. Stewart.
Nollaig shona daoibh go léir a chairde!
Nollaig shona daoibh go léir a chairde!
Playing Elizabeth Kelly’s Delight (slip jig) and Patsy Geary’s (jig) on mandolin with Jessica on fiddle: https://thesession.org/tunes/953 https://thesession.org/tunes/9076 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rgCRPPTo40
Playing Elizabeth Kelly’s Delight (slip jig) and Patsy Geary’s (jig) on mandolin with Jessica on fiddle:
https://thesession.org/tunes/953
Having a proper Cork Christmas with spiced beef, like! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiced_beef#Ireland
Having a proper Cork Christmas with spiced beef, like!
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference between “blog” and “blog post” (as well as “podcast” and “podcast episode”).
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference between “blog” and “blog post” (as well as “podcast” and “podcast episode”).
Don’t Fuck With Scroll
- Violates User Expectations
- Causes Motion Sickness
- Reduces Accessibility for Disabled Users
- Inconsistent Performance Across Devices
- Impairs Usability for Power Users
- Increases Page Load Times
- Breaks Native Browser Features
- Makes Scroll Position Unclear
- Adds Maintenance Overhead
- Disrespects the User’s Control
Sunday session
Sunday session
Full RSS feed
Oh, this is a very handy service from Paul—given the URL of an RSS feed that only has summaries, it will attempt to get the full post content from the HTML.
Hanging out with a good doggo.
Hanging out with a good doggo.
Reading The Fates by Rosie Garland.
Reading The Fates by Rosie Garland.
Galway session
Galway session
Going to Galway. brb
Going to Galway. brb
Wednesday session
Wednesday session
Authors Apart
Another handy list of where you can get works published by A Book Apart authors.
Choosing a geocoding provider
Yesterday when I mentioned my paranoia of third-party dependencies on The Session, I said:
I’ve built in the option to switch between multiple geocoding providers. When one of them inevitably starts enshittifying their service, I can quickly move on to another. It’s like...