Back when South by Southwest wasn’t terrible, there used to be an annual panel called Browser Wars populated with representatives from the main browser vendors (except for Apple, obviously, who would never venture onto a stage outside of their own events).
I remember gettin...
I was having a discussion with some of my peers a little while back. We were collectively commenting on the state of education and documentation for front-end development.
A lot of the old stalwarts have fallen by the wayside of late. CSS Tricks hasn’t been the same since i...
Looking back on ten years of codebar Brighton, I’m remembering how much I got out of being a coach.
Something that I realised very quickly is that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to coaching. Every student is different so every session should adapt to that.
Broadly ...
I went to codebar Brighton yesterday evening. I hadn’t been in quite a while, but this was a special occasion: a celebration of codebar Brighton’s tenth anniversary!
The Brighton chapter of codebar was the second one ever, founded six months after the initial London chapter...
The Dark Forest idea comes from the Remembrance of Earth’s Past books by Liu Cixin. It’s an elegant but dispiriting solution to the Fermi paradox. Maggie sums it up:
Dark forest theory suggests that the universe is like a dark forest at night - a place that appears quiet...
My phone rang today. I didn’t recognise the number so although I pressed the big button to answer the call, I didn’t say anything.
I didn’t say anything because usually when I get a call from a number I don’t know, it’s some automated spam. If I say nothing, the spam voice ...
UX London 2024 is done …and it was magnificent!
It’s always weird when an event like this moves from being something in the future to something in the past. I’ve spent the year so far fixated on getting the right line-up, getting the word out, and nervously watching the tic...
Large language models have reaped our words and plundered our books. Bryan Vandyke:
Turns out, everything on the internet—every blessed word, no matter how dumb or benighted—has utility as a learning model. Words are the food that large language algorithms feed upon, the...
My bug report on Apple’s websites-in-the-dock feature on desktop has me thinking about how starkly different it is on mobile.
On iOS if you want to add a website to your home screen, good luck. The option is buried within the “share” menu.
First off, it makes no sense that...
Apple announced some stuff about artificial insemination at their WorldWide Developer Conference, none of which interests me one whit. But we did get a twitch of the webkit curtains to let us know what’s coming in Safari. That does interest me.
I’m really pleased to see tha...
