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Twelve years ago I published my first article on this site, and it's still alive (is it?). Writing # I haven't published anything in the last year. Last year I thought I will come back …

In the last issue of Own Your Web, we looked at blogrolls as one way to improve the visibility and discoverability of our sites. Whether or not you want to add a blogroll to your …

I read A Global Design System by Big Medium’s, Brad Frost recently and it’s inspired thoughts that have been swimming around in my brain for quite a while: the precarious safety of web documentation. I …

A few weeks ago I gave a talk for Smashing Meets about Web3. Find the talk description below. You can watch the video of ‘Web3: creating problems where we need solutions’ on Smashing Magazine’s Vimeo. …

There’s a new book out by Chris Dixon, an investor at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. I haven’t read it. (And after reading Molly White’s excellent review, I probably won’t.) But! Yesterday, Anil Dash …

As of this month, I’ve been working remotely for ten years. My overall opinion is that it is good and I like it! Here are some random thoughts:It’s just really cool to have worked with …

This past Saturday: finished the #InsideTrail Redtail Ridge 30k #trailRace in 6:00:59.A few notes:This was my first trail race of 2024, and first in over 6 months, since last year’s Marin Ultra Challenge 50k and …

Essay question Write a 2000 word essay on the following topic... Critically discuss the choices that you have made in relation to your communication techniques and style within the context of specific trauma-informed events or …

You ask, "Should I be making a new directory for this feature I'm building?" You expect a return value of: "yes" or "no." You had a 50% chance of guessing the "correct" answer...right? Four hours, …

Wow, long time, no posts! Anyway, about them text-to-art generative models going about, eh? Surprising nobody: I am extremely into them. I’ve been using DALL-E and MidJourney since they came out, and even though tons …

I mean… the writing was on the wall, wasn't it? Didn't we, the tech nation desperate to actualise the ten-ecks developer, make our own bed? I know it's the cynic in me that doesn't trust …

If you've ever approached a blank page with an idea for a long blog post, you'll understand me when I say that it can be daunting. I can't count how many times I've though to …

The amount of content on the web is so large, that it's tricky to find the stuff worth reading. One of my strategies is to follow people I trust and read what they share. For …

There was a time, before the screens took over, when people read these things called "books". Remarkably efficient things. Always-on display. Could survive dropping from a great height. Somewhat fragile but who cares when you …

A post from Remy on Mastodon recently got me thinking: Been picking up some of the jsbin archive work. Today, there's currently 62 millions bins stored. The last full copy archive I ran (which downloads …