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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...
Progressively enhancing maps
The Session has been online for over 20 years. When you maintain a site for that long, you don’t want to be relying on third parties—it’s only a matter of time until they’re no longer around.
Some third party APIs are unavoidable. The Session has maps for sessions and other...
Lived experience
plainvanillaweb.com/blog/articles/2024-09-30-lived-experience/
I hold this truth to be self-evident: the larger the abstraction layer a web developer uses on top of web standards, the shorter the shelf life of their codebase becomes, and the more they will feel the churn.
Century-Scale Storage
This magnificent piece by Maxwell Neely-Cohen—with some tasteful art-direction—is right up my alley!
This piece looks at a single question. If you, right now, had the goal of digitally storing something for 100 years, how should you even begin to think about making that ...
Knowing CSS is mastery to Frontend Development — Anselm Hannemann
helloanselm.com/writings/knowing-css-is-mastery-to-frontend-development
Anselm isn’t talking about becoming a CSS wizard, but simply having an understanding of what CSS can do. I have had similar experiences to this:
In the past years I had various situations where TypeScript developers (they called themselves) approached me and asked whether I could help them out with CSS. I expected to solve a complex problem but for me — knowing CSS very well — it was always a simple, straightforward solution or code snippet.
Let’s face it, “full stack” usually means “JavaScript”—HTML and CSS aren’t considered worthy of consideration. Their loss.
Of Books and Conferences Past - Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design
I miss A Book Apart, and I really miss An Event Apart—I made so many friends and memories through that conference. I admire Jeffrey’s honest account of how much it sucks when something so good comes to an end.
Sanborn Fire Maps
A complete digital archive of the famous typography from the Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps
The lettering really is lovely!
Authors Together
In 2024, A Book Apart closed its doors after publishing a much-loved collection of more than 50 brief books for people who make websites. The rights to each book have reverted to the authors — hi, that’s us — and we’ve put together this semi-official directory to help you find our books in their new homes.
…now including Going Offline.