Going to Cork, like. brb

Slán, Baile Átha Cliath!

Thursday afternoon session in Dublin

Going to Dublin. brb

This is excellent advice and I’m glad to see this getting addressed nice and early in the era of customisable select elements:

always provide text content or accessible text attributes for your option elements.

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This is a collection of short stories by one of Ireland’s best playwrights.

I think you can tell that these stories were written by someone who’s at home with the stage. The dialogue really shines. And some of the stories feel like scenes in a play.

But that’s no bad thing. If most short stories are like mini-novels, why not have short stories that are like mini-plays?

Some of the stories are very short indeed, just long enough to convey the mood of the piece. That mood is often wistful, melancholy, or nostalgiac.

This collection comes with an equally brief introduction by the brilliant Louise Kennedy.

This slim volume makes for a great travel read. Slip it into your pocket and you’ll have an instant portal to a bygone time and place in the west of Ireland.

Storied Colors is a catalogue of named colors — pigments, dyes, lakes, glazes, and a small number of digital hues — each accompanied by the documentary evidence required to call it by its name. The launch corpus opens at two hundred and fifty entries. It is maintained as a single-author project.

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Happy Sussex Day, Bloomsday, and Valentina’s Day!

Don’t eat the yellow snow.

—Frank Zappa

Don’t tap on the sparkle emoji.

—Me

People of Dublin: I’m giving a talk on Thursday evening at Na Píobairí Uilleann on Henrietta Street—come along if you want to know the story behind TheSession.org

Reading The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff.

CSS Grid Lanes has started to ship in browsers. It’s in Safari and behind a flag in Chrome and Edge. It enables masonry layouts, where items get packed together in the most efficient way possible. Unsurprisingly, I’m a fan of a layout tool where the browser does all the ha...

This is a great case study featuring a really useful HTML web component called validation-enhancer.

The results? When we launched, the number of people completing the form doubled. The analytics people didn’t even know where these users were coming from. Of course, your javascript-based analytics package doesn’t see the users you are bouncing because of javascript failures. It was a flood!

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I’m giving a talk this week. Usually this wouldn’t be a big deal. I’ve been giving talks for over twenty years now. But this one is different. I’m going to speaking at Na Píobairí Uilleann, the Society of Uilleann Pipers, in Dublin. They have a monthly series of lectures c...

300 racists came to Brighton today looking to cause trouble.

4000 Brightonians sent ’em packing.

With a ratio like that, all you fascists bound to lose.

I give Apple a hard time. That’s mostly due to how they treat the web on their own mobile devices. Though iOS ostensibly supports the ability for websites to be added to the homescreen, they make it so difficult for users to do, the functionality is practically worthless. I...

Sarah Canary is an odd book, in the best possible way.

On the one hand, it’s a relatively straightforward narrative. An adventure story set in the Pacific northwest in the late 19th century. The viewpoint shifts from character to character, with one exception. The inscrutable title character is a living macguffin that everyone and everything else revolves around.

That all seems straightforward enough, but if you squint at the story just right maybe it’s a story from a very different genre altogether.

So you can enjoy it on both levels; a well-told series of historical adventures, and a clever subversion of genre expectations. Whichever way you take it, there’s a running thread throughout the book exploring racism, sexism, and colonialism.

Quite the debut novel!

Leaving #CSSday genuinely inspired (as in, I was inspired to whip out my laptop straight away and start programming some very cool CSS).

This is a very handy playground for exploring the brand new masonry grid lanes layout.

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Pretty chuffed that Keith’s Law has been quoted twice on stage at this year’s #CSSday:

JavaScript should do what only JavaScript can do.

Ana has gone above and beyond to match the branding for this year’s #CSSday.

(if you think that’s spicy, you haven’t even seen the question I put to the representative from the Ladybird browser project …alas my question wasn’t asked on stage) #CSSday

At #CSSday the Google Chrome team are asking developers “What’s missing from the web?” …I needed a few post-it notes for my answer.

Wednesday session in Amsterdam

Strolling through Amsterdam.

Reading Stories Of Ireland by Brien Friel.

Going to Amsterdam. brb

Monday session

Irgendwas geht los in Koblenz 🤔

I’m heading to Amsterdam for CSS Day. It’s one of those events I try my best to get to every single year. I have no doubt that this year will be brilliant as usual.

There’s another event the day before CSS Day: The Web You Want:

What would the web be like if it was up to you?

There’ll be workshops and talks, all absolutely free.

I’ll be giving a talk. It’s supposed to be about the web I want, but I’m going to do my usual shtick of looking back at the history of the web to see what kind of things we wanted in the past. It’s called The Web You Wanted.

Register your attendance and I’ll see you there. Or maybe I’ll see you at CSS Day. Or at the session in Mulligan’s on Wednesday night.