The future of the tradition
Personally speaking.
Journal archive: 2009
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Understanding Huffduffer
Brad Colbow is my co-pilot.
HTML5 watch
All I want for Christmas is a lint tool.
Belfast
Those who forget the past are doomed to take a cab ride.
The Scenius of Brighton
The geeky events just keep coming.
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow
Three near-future predictions.
Cause and effect
I don’t want to start any blasphemous rumours.
Consistency
Google’s behaviour.
Collective action
Ajax feedback inspired by video games.
Collectivism
Social(ist) networking.
Burge Pitch Torrent
Even more perfect pitch.
Perfect Pitch
In which I lose my DMCA virginity.
Talking the talk
Shooting the breeze in MP3s.
Tears in the rain
All of these moments will be lost in time.
The Chalkboard of the Fourth Wall
Life? Don’t talk to this anthropomorphised inanimate object about life.
Optimisation
Optimise for ugly bags of mostly water, not your plastic pal that’s fun to be with.
Password unmasking
Borrowing a smart UI feature from Apple.
Small pieces, loosely joined by machine tags
Screen-scraping to make API calls.
Thoughtful
A gentle reminder from Last.fm.
Culchavulching
In Brighton, no-one can hear you geek out.
Full Frontal
Be in Brighton on November 20th.
PodConstruction
Listen to me natter on about HTML5.
Amperbbreviations
Abbreviations, ampersand cetera
Sign up and log in
Form follows… another form.
Accessimobility
I like what I don’t see in the new iPhone.
The devil in the details
The HTML5 spec has been updated again.
Wayfinders keepers
I want you to show me the way.
HTML5 test results
Tabulating the results from a workshop.
Impact
One Friday in September.
Testing HTML5
A dConstruct workshop reveals some issues with the HTML5 spec.
HTML5 and me
My petitions to the makers of markup.
Re-finding five numbers
A more permanent home for some excellent audio.
dCapsule
Add a memento to the dConstruct time capsule.
Plug in and huffduff
A Firefox extension for Huffduffer, courtesy of Glenn Jones.
The HTML5 Equilibrium
Inside the troubled mind of HTML5.
Comical
I’m so two-dimensional.
Eventful
dConstruct is coming up. You should be there.
Cryptypography
Ligatures from beyond the grave.
I don’t care about UX
I know! Let’s spend the next few years defining exactly what UX design is …that worked great for Information Architecture.
Misunderstanding markup
The death of XHTML has been greatly exaggerated.
Building Reprieve
Popping my Django cherry.
Thatmedia 2009
A great line-up.
From Boston to London
Straight from An Event Apart to @media.
An Event Apart Boston, Day One
Wrapping up a day’s liveblogging and speaking
DIY UX: Give Your Users an Upgrade (Without Calling In a Pro)
Liveblogging Whitey Hess at An Event Apart Boston 2009.
Designing with Psychology in Mind
Liveblogging Joshua Porter at An Event Apart Boston 2009.
Thinking Small
Liveblogging Jason Santa Maria at An Event Apart Boston 2009.
Content First
Liveblogging Kristina Halvorson at An Event Apart Boston 2009.
Revealing Design Treasures from The Amazon
Liveblogging Jared Spool at An Event Apart Boston 2009.
June
Conference are like buses. Here come three at once.
Designing for the street
The death and social life of great American cities’ small urban spaces is here for you to use.
Wired for sound
Don’t you wonder sometimes ‘bout sound and vision?
Locationeering
Good times for geolocation hacking.
Past visions of the future
Designing for tomorrow, yesterday.
Machine tag browsing
Visualising machine tags on Huffduffer.
Microformation
Microformats go marching on. Now with more options.
September 1913
Romantic Ireland’s dead and gone.
The Medium is the Mess
Scribbling in the margins of the rule book.
Zoomfusion
Reports of the death of liquid layouts have been greatly exaggerated.
Hyphen Nation
Battling the emdashculation of the internet.
Dyson ball
When is a ball not a sphere?
The Death and Life of Geocities
Geocities is no longer here for you to use.
All Our Yesterdays
Opening up Bamboo Juice 2009.
Righting copywrongs
Fighting the good fight in Europe.
Decembering
Loving the Hazards of Love.
Blast from the past
When rabbit holes become memory holes.
Revving up
rev=”canonical” has a posse.
Inkosaurs
Moving from the denial phase into anger.
Shrtr
Avoiding short URL link rot.
Let the right tweet in
Horror and cosiness.
Ariability
HTML5 and ARIA: not so different after all.
Boarding
I’m mobile. Fly me.
Frankfurting
Ich fliege nach Deutschland.
The Austin Report
Ess Ex Ess Doubleyou Eye Oh Nine
Texapalooza
South by Southwest bound.
Crawlbar
Say it with me.
£5 slides
Talking about Huffduffer.
Speed
Everybody down.
See me speak
Past and future.
Small world, loosely joined
Surfacing serendipity.
Rambling
Speaking and travelling.
To protect and to preserve
Is it safe?
Magnoliloss
Back up before your data goes down.
Microprinter has a posse
Get your hack on.
Source
The importance of transparency.
Creative Commons Q&A
15 questions on Creative Commons.
Machine-tagging Huffduffer some more
Hacking Last.fm’s API.
Machine-tagging Huffduffer
Hacking Amazon’s API.
PaperCamp
Liveblogging the first ever PaperCamp in London.
Longevity, morphology, incept dates
The flame that’s Creative Commons licensed burns twice as long.
97 Bottles
I’ll need to see some OpenID.
Authors On Tour — Live!
For your huffduffing pleasure.
Anathem
A spoiler-free appraisal of Neal Stephenson’s latest work.
The Audio of the System of the World
For your listening pleasure.
The Rise of HTML5
All the cool kids are doing it.
Antipatterns for sale
Is it safe?
Oh Nine
Obligatory New Year’s post.