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Enjoyed the album launch gig by Patients tonight!

https://patientstheband.bandcamp.com/album/post-high-lows-2

Reading Salt Slow by Julia Armfield.

Thursday session

Overall, consistency, user control, and actual UX innovation are in decline. Everything is converging on TikTok—which is basically TV with infinite channels. You don’t control anything except the channel switch. It’s like Carcinisation, a form of convergent evolution where unrelated crustaceans all evolve into something vaguely crab-shaped.

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So much slopaganda on LinkedIn.

I’m obviously biased, but I like the sound of what Chris is doing to create a library of HTML web components.

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Let’s go back to a website!

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In which I answer questions about blogging.

I’ve put a copy of this on my own site too.

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An interview about my blog, originally published on the website People and Blogs in April 2025.

Marvel: Avengers Endgame is the most ambitious crossover event in history.

Adrian Tchaikovsky: Hold my beer. Literally.

Reading Bloodchild And Other Stories by Octavia Butler.

Matcha latte in a Jazz Kissa.

Signed!

We, the undersigned, call on the record labels and members of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)—including UMG, Capitol Records, Concord Bicycle Assets, CMGI Recorded Music Assets, Sony Music Entertainment, and Arista Music—to drop your lawsuit against the Internet Archive.

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Signed!

We, the undersigned, call on the record labels and members of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)—including UMG, Capitol Records, Concord Bicycle Assets, CMGI Recorded Music Assets, Sony Music Entertainment, and Arista Music—to drop your lawsuit against the Internet Archive.

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Thursday session

Matt’s beach thoughts are like a satisfying susurrus in my RSS reader.

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It’s an annoying cognitive task: detecting weird photo artifacts, bizarre movement in videos, impossible animals and body horror, and reading through reams of anodyne text to determine if the person who prompted the synthetic media machine cared enough to dedicate time and energy to the task of communicating to their audience.

I hate that this is the bleak future which venture capitalists and AI boosters have gleefully laid out for us, that they consider this to be a “democratizing” technology in any real sense of the word. Far from strengthening democracy, these are technologies more apt at propping up scam capitalism and multi-level marketing schemes. I would like my time and mental space back.

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This is clever: putting CSS inside a noscript element to hide anything that requires JavaScript.

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Wednesday session

Trans women are women.

I was at the State Of The Browser event recently, which was great as always. Manu gave a great talk about colour in CSS. A lot of it focused on OKLCH. I was already convinced of the benefits of this colour space after seeing a terrific talk by Anton Lovchikov a while back. ...

Here’s a fun account of the early days of the ARPANET.

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You won’t be able to unsee this. It’s like the FedEx logo …if the arrow was an anus.

1. Circular shape (often with a gradient)
2. Central opening or focal point
3. Radiating elements from the center
4. Soft, organic curves

Sound familiar? It should, because it’s also an apt description of… well, you know.

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Monday session

A workshop on resilient CSS layouts

Oh, hell yes!

Do not hesitate—sign yourself up to this series of three online workshops by Miriam. This is the quickest to level up your working knowledge of the most powerful parts of CSS.

By the end of this you’re going to feel like Neo in that bit of The Matrix when he says “I know kung-fu!” …except kung-fu isn’t very useful for building resilient and maintainable websites, whereas modern CSS absolutely is.

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We believe the World Wide Web should be inclusive and respectful of all participants: a Web that supports facts over falsehoods, people over profits, humanity over hate.

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For the past couple of years, myself and Jessica have been going to the Belfast Tradfest in the Summer. It’s an excellent event with great workshops, sessions, and concerts. And it helps that Belfast is such a lovely city to spend a week in. What struck me the first time we...

Fun!

But also …never forget, never forgive.

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Rock’n’roll bus stop

Everything you ever wanted to know about text-wrap: pretty in CSS.

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