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Today I am the man in seat 61 on the Eurostar from Paris to London.
Today I am the man in seat 61 on the Eurostar from Paris to London.
Circles
Circles
Checked in at La Corde à Linge. Spätzle
Checked in at La Corde à Linge. Spätzle
Checked in at Royal 26. Pairing a good book with a glass of Pinot Gris
Checked in at Royal 26. Pairing a good book with a glass of Pinot Gris
Angels in the architecture
Angels in the architecture
Strolling around Strasbourg
Strolling around Strasbourg
Checked in at Chez Yvonne. Choucroute garní — with Jessica
Checked in at Chez Yvonne. Choucroute garní — with Jessica
Reading Ariadne by Jennifer Saint.
Reading Ariadne by Jennifer Saint.
Going to Strasbourg. brb
Going to Strasbourg. brb
I wasted a day on CSS selector performance to make a website load 2ms faster | Trys Mudford
trysmudford.com/blog/i-spent-a-day-making-the-website-go-2ms-faster/
Picture me holding Trys back and telling him, “Leave it alone, mate, it’s not worth it!”
Monday session
Monday session
Preventing automated sign-ups
The Session goes through periods of getting spammed with automated sign-ups. I’m not sure why. It’s not like they do anything with the accounts. They’re just created and then they sit there (until I delete them).
In the past I’ve dealt with them in an ad-hoc way. If the sig...
The secret power of a blog – Tracy Durnell’s Mind Garden
If you only write when you’re sure you’ll produce brilliance, you’ll never write.
Comparing web components to React is like comparing a good bicycle with a cybertruck. They do very different things, and they’re used by different people with very, very different mindsets.
Comparing web components to React is like comparing a good bicycle with a cybertruck.
They do very different things, and they’re used by different people with very, very different mindsets.
OpenFreeMap
This project, based on OpenStreetMap, looks great:
OpenFreeMap lets you display custom maps on your website and apps for free.
You can either self-host or use our public instance.
I’m going to try it out on The Session once there’s documentation for using this with Leaflet.
The Unraveling of Space-Time | Quanta Magazine
This special in-depth edition of Quanta is fascinating and very nicely put together.
Building a robust frontend using progressive enhancement - Service Manual - GOV.UK
gov.uk/service-manual/technology/using-progressive-enhancement
Oh, how I wish that every team building for the web would use this sensible approach!
Sunday session
Sunday session
> Websites have always been tiny mutinies, perfectly designed for rebellion! — Robin Rendle, Coming home https://robinrendle.com/notes/coming-home/
Websites have always been tiny mutinies, perfectly designed for rebellion!
— Robin Rendle, Coming home
POSSE: Reclaiming social media in a fragmented world
This rhymes nicely with Mandy’s recent piece on POSSE:
Despite its challenges, POSSE is extremely empowering for those of us who wish to cultivate our own corners of the web outside of the walled gardens of the major tech platforms, without necessarily eschewing them entirely. I can maintain a presence on the platforms I enjoy and the connections I value with the people there, while still retaining primary control over the things that I write and freedom from those platforms’ limitations.
Hire HTML and CSS people
Every problem at every company I’ve ever worked at eventually boils down to “please dear god can we just hire people who know how to write HTML and CSS.”
Capt. Grace Hopper on Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People (Part One, 1982) - YouTube
Wow! Grace Hopper has always been a hero to me, but I had no idea she was such a fantastic presenter. She’s completely engaging, with the timing and deadpan delivery of a stand-up comedian at times.
Long live hypertext! – Tracy Durnell’s Mind Garden
This is how I write:
As an online writer, my philosophy is link maximalism; links add another layer to my writing, whether I’m linking to an expansion of a particular idea or another person’s take, providing evidence or citation, or making a joke by juxtaposing text and target. Links reveal personality as much as the text. Linking allows us to stretch our ideas, embedding complexity, acknowledging ambiguity, holding contradictions.
The datalist element on iOS
The datalist element is good. It was a bit bumpy there for a while, but browser implementations have improved over time. Now it’s by far the simplest and most robust way to create an autocompleting combobox widget.
Hook up an input element with a datalist element using the ...
Coming home | A Working Library
While one of the reasons oft declared for using POSSE is the ability to own your content, I’m less interested in ownership than I am in context. Writing on my own site has very different affordances: I’m not typing into a little box, but writing in a text file. I’m not surrounded by other people’s thinking, but located within my own body of work. As I played with setting this up, I could immediately feel how that would change the kinds of things I would say, and it felt good. Really good. Like putting on a favorite t-shirt, or coming home to my solid, quiet house after a long time away.
Mandy’s writing positively soars and sings in this beautiful piece!
Wednesday session
Wednesday session
The web we want: A beginner’s guide to the IndieWeb · Paul Robert Lloyd
This is a terrific presentation from Paul. He gives a history lesson and then focuses on what makes the indie web such a powerful idea (hint: it’s not about specific technologies).
An Abridged History of Safari Showstoppers - Webventures
webventures.rejh.nl/blog/2024/history-of-safari-show-stoppers/
In an earlier era, startups could build on the web and, if one browser didn’t provide the features they needed, they could just recommend that their users try a better one. But that’s not possible on iOS.
I’m extremly concerned about the newest bug in iOS 18:
Whaa? That’s just shockingly dreadful!
Introducing TODS – a typographic and OpenType default stylesheet | Clagnut by Richard Rutter
This is a very handy piece of work by Rich:
The idea is to set sensible typographic defaults for use on prose (a column of text), making particular use of the font features provided by OpenType. The main principle is that it can be used as starting point for all projects, so doesn’t include design-specific aspects such as font choice, type scale or layout (including how you might like to set the line-length).