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Wednesday session
Wednesday session
My IndieWeb Journey
The slides from a lovely talk by Ana with an important message:
By having your own personal website you are as indie web as it gets. That’s right. Whether you participate in the IndieWeb community or not: by having your own personal website you are as indie web as it gets.
Really hoping to speedrun the five stages this time.
Really hoping to speedrun the five stages this time.
JavaScript dos and donts @ Mu-An Chiou
Straightforward smart sensible advice that you can apply to any feature on a website.
I was notified of a comment on Reddit that was intended as a warning but is in fact a huge compliment: > Gotta be careful about thesession.org. It has the same problem as Wikipedia: anyone can contribute and edit
I was notified of a comment on Reddit that was intended as a warning but is in fact a huge compliment:
Gotta be careful about thesession.org. It has the same problem as Wikipedia: anyone can contribute and edit
Reading Polostan by Neal Stephenson.
Reading Polostan by Neal Stephenson.
Myth and magic
I read Madeline Miller’s Circe last year. I loved it. It was my favourite fiction book I read that year.
Reading Circe kicked off a bit of a reading spree for me. I sought out other retellings of Greek myths. There’s no shortage of good books out there from Pat Barker, Nata...
Your CSS reset should be layered
This makes sense:
Wrap everything in your CSS reset with a
@layerrule.When you place any styles inside a layer, these styles automatically have lower priority compared to all unlayered styles on the page. Think of it like an
!unimportantblock. You don’t need to worry about specificity or order of stylesheets at all.
Sunday session
Sunday session
I think cats would be into The Cure. Dogs would probably prefer R.E.M.
I think cats would be into The Cure. Dogs would probably prefer R.E.M.
Please publish and share more - Jeff Triplett’s Micro.blog
It’d be best to publish your work in some evergreen space where you control the domain and URL. Then publish on masto-sky-formerly-known-as-linked-don and any place you share and comment on.
You don’t have to change the world with every post. You might publish a quick thought or two that helps encourage someone else to try something new, listen to a new song, or binge-watch a new series.
Also, developers:
Write and publish before you write your own static site generator or perfect blogging platform. We have lost billions of good writers to this side quest because they spend all their time working on the platform instead of writing.
Designers, the same advice applies to you: write first, come up with that perfect design later.
New CSS that can actually be used in 2024 | Thomasorus
thomasorus.com/new-css-that-can-actually-be-used-in-2024.html
Logical properties, container queries, :has, :is, :where, min(), max(), clamp(), nesting, cascade layers, subgrid, and more.
Unsaid
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.
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
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.
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.
My Modern CSS Reset | jakelazaroff.com
I like the approach here: logical properties and sensible default type and spacing.
Wednesday session
Wednesday session
W3C@30: W3C and me - YouTube
> These are the mornings autumn leaves are made for, bringing the colour when the sun cannot. — Denise Wilton
These are the mornings autumn leaves are made for, bringing the colour when the sun cannot.
Monday session
Monday session
Sunday 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
Writing is the best means I have of metabolizing my own life.
— Maria Popova, 18 Life-Learnings from 18 Years of The Marginalian
The Weather Out There - Long Now
I really liked this short story.
This always feels good!
This always feels good!
Making the website for Research By The Sea
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
Wednesday session
In 1979, two books shaped my formative years • Supernatural Detective’s Field Guide
This is such a great project from Jon—a mashup of two books from his childhood!
Put that RSS feed in your feed reader.
Help us choose the final syntax for Masonry in CSS | WebKit
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!