FeedCity

Practice Progressive Enhancement.

Build first and foremost with forgiving technologies, declarative technologies, and forward and backward compatible coding techniques.

All content should be readable without scripting.

If it’s worth building on the web, it’s worth building it robustly, and building it to last.

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We’re at a point in the most ecosystems where pulling in libraries is not just the default action, it’s seen positively: “Look how modular and composable my code is!” Actually, it might just be a symptom of never wanting to type out more than a few lines. It always amaz...

Anyone at an AI company who stops to think for half a second should be able to recognize they have a vampiric relationship with the commons. While they rely on these repositories for their sustenance, their adversarial and disrespectful relationships with creators reduce ...

Kicking off St. Patrick’s weekend with a spice bag and Murphy’s!

Thursday session

Reading Hera by Jennifer Saint.

Goodbye, Amsterdam!

Wednesday session in Amsterdam

I’ve been introduced to the most important staff member at this university.

Hello, Amsterdam!

I’ve had my head down for the past six months putting the line-up for UX London together. Following the classic design cliché, the process was first divergent, then convergent. I spent months casting the net wide, gathering as many possible candidates as I could, as well as...

Going to Amsterdam. brb

Monday session

I left Twitter in 2022. With every day that has passed since then, that decision has proven to be correct. (I’m honestly shocked that some people I know still have active Twitter accounts. At this point there is no justification for giving your support to a place that’s lit...

Brighton is blessed with plenty of traditional Irish music sessions. You need some kind of almanac to keep track of when they’re on. Some are on once a month. Some are twice a month. Some are every two weeks (which isn’t the same as twice a month, depending on the month). Sometimes when the stars align just right, you get a whole week of sessions in a row. That’s what happened last week with sessions on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. I enjoyed playing my mandolin in each of them. There was even a private party on Saturday night where a bunch of us played tunes for an hour and a half. There’s nothing quite like playing music with other people. It’s good for the soul.

Checked in at Fox On the Downs. Sunday roast — with Jessica

I look the look of this proposal that would allow authors to have more control over network priorities for third-party iframes—I’ve already documented how I had to use a third-party library to fix this problem on the Salter Cane site.

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A fascinating look at the modern equivalent of the Longitude problem.

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I really like Brad’s new project, Cold Album Drumming: Brad Frost plays drums to the albums he knows intimately, but has never drummed to before. Cover to cover. No warm-up. No prep. Totally cold. What could possibly go wrong? I got a kick out of watching him play alon...

Thursday session

New Kabin Crew belter in the gaff, like—great gas altogether, like!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWzL7wo0VJE

This was a day of big conversations, but also one of connection, curiosity, and optimism.

Seeing it all laid out like this really drives home just how much was packed into Research By The Sea.

Throughout the day, speakers shared personal reflections, bold ideas, and practical insights, touching on themes of community, resilience, ethics, and the evolving role of technology.

Some talks brought hard truths about the impact of AI, the complexity of organisational change, and the ethical dilemmas researchers face. Others offered hope and direction, reminding us of the power of community, the importance of accessibility, and the need to listen to nature, to each other, and to the wider world.

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Check it out—here’s the line-up for UX London 2025! This is going to be so good! Grab a ticket if you haven’t got one yet. UX London take...

This looks like a really interesting proposal for allowing developers more control over styling inputs. Based on the work being done the customisable select element, it starts with a declaration of appearance: base.

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Wednesday session

And by LLMS I mean: (L)ots of (L)ittle ht(M)l page(S).

I really like this approach: using separate pages instead of in-page interactions. I remember Simon talking about how great this works, and that was a few years back, before we had view transitions.

I build separate, small HTML pages for each “interaction” I want, then I let CSS transitions take over and I get something that feels better than its JS counterpart for way less work.

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Tuesday session

This is a great new musical project from Brad:

Brad Frost plays drums to the albums he knows intimately, but has never drummed to before. Cover to cover. No warm-up. No prep. Totally cold. What could possibly go wrong?

I really enjoyed watching all of The Crane Wife and In Rainbows.

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Research By The Sea was last Thursday. I’m still digesting it all. In short, it was excellent. The venue, how smoothly every thing was organised, the talks …oh boy, the talks! Benjamin did a truly superb job curating this line-up. Everyone really brought their A-game. As ...

Monday session