Wednesday session

People of Brighton, be sure to get your ticket for the Salter Cane gig this Saturday, April 4th featuring Skyscrapers and The Equatorial Group!

https://saltercane.com/tickets

We show you a CSS property name. You tell us if it’s real or if we made it up. That’s it. It starts easy. It does not stay easy.

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Coco’s napping

Monday session

This Saturday, April 4th, come to The Hope And Ruin in Brighton to see Skyscrapers, Equatorial Group, and Salter Cane:

https://saltercane.com/tickets

Tickets are £8 in advance, £10 on the door.

Saturday evening session in Tullamore

Saturday afternoon session in Tullamore

It’s gettin’ wild in Tullamore tonight!

Friday evening session in Tullamore

Going to Tullamore. brb

Web development follows a familiar cycle. First we glue together a solution with whatever we have — JavaScript, image hacks, Flash, anything. Then the platform matures, and CSS or HTML eventually makes that same workaround native. Rounded corners, custom fonts, smooth scrolling, sticky positioning: all of these started as JavaScript-heavy hacks before CSS turned them into a single declaration.

We are in another one of those transition moments. A new wave of long-requested CSS features is finally landing, and many of them are explicitly designed to replace patterns that used to require JavaScript. Not as approximations — as first-class platform primitives that handle the edge cases, run in the right thread, and need zero dependencies.

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I’m slapping my forehead—progressive web components is a perfect name for what I’ve been calling HTML web components. Why didn’t I think of that?

A Progressive Web Component is a native Custom Element designed in two layers: a base layer of HTML and CSS that renders immediately, without JavaScript, and an enhancement layer of JavaScript that adds reactivity, event handling, and more advanced templating.

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I can’t remember the last time a blog post resonated with me this much.

Craig’s criteria on his job search:

• One: fuck offices
• Two: fuck AI
• Three: fuck React

And his conclusion:

Fuck work

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Wednesday session

People of Brighton, mark your calendars: Saturday, April 4th. That’s when Salter Cane will be playing in The Hope And Ruin.

It’s not just Salter Cane though. We’ll be joined by Skyscrapers from Lewes, and The Equatorial Group from Eastbourne. We’ve played with them before, and they’re superb!

Tickets are available now. They’re £8 in advance. It’ll be £10 on the door. So please get your ticket in advance!

Doors are at 7:30pm. Skyscrapers will be on stage at 8pm, The Equatorial group at 9pm, and Salter Cane at 10pm.

I’m really, really looking forward to rocking out playing songs from our newest album and I would love it if you could make it.

See you there!

It’s a real missed opportunity in Project Hail Mary that at no point does anyone look to the camera with a steely gaze and declare, “It’s daylight saving time.”

I was in the library the weekend before last when I spotted something on the shelf of recently-returned books. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. I knew the film adaptation was coming out later that week. Ideally, I’d like to read the book before seeing the film. It would be a...

This is a guide to how to be a web developer.

Really good advice from Laurie.

What this site is not is a tutorial. Tutorials are very specific to a time and a technology. This is intended to be a guide to tell you all the things you can learn, so you can then go off and learn them.

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The choice isn’t between books and screens. The choice is between intentional design and profitable chaos. Between habitats that cultivate human potential and platforms that extract human attention.

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Reading Finn Mac Cool by Morgan Llywelyn.

It feels like all my peers are experiencing Deep Blue and having to choose their future career path:

expert in a dying field

or

collaborator in a fascist project.

Eleven years ago, I wrote:

Sometimes I consider the explosive growth of computation and think that strong AI is a near-term inevitability.

Then I remember printers.

That was just a brainfart, but Robin tackles it seriously in his thoughtful essay.

A pleasing image: if indeed AI automation does not flood fill the physical world, it will be because the humble paper jam stood in its way.

Software cannot, in fact, eat this world. Software can reflect it; encroach upon it; more than anything, distract us from it. But the real physical world is indigestible.

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Friday session

Having fun with https://pixelframe.design/dune-font-logo-generator/

Thursday session

You should come to UX London in the first week of June. Why? Because it’s going to be awesome, that’s why! You probably knew that already. You probably already decided to get a ticket because you’re smart like that. But don’t dilly-dally! Early-bird tickets are available n...

These assholes https://www.openui.com/ did not do any due diligence before choosing a name.

The only Open UI that counts is https://open-ui.org/

I mean, I would ask for the country first (because not all countries have zip/postal codes), but the point stands…

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A lovely post from Remy about State Of The Browser and Web Day Out.

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