The change you want to see
Make the poop or get off the pot.
Journal archive: 2011
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Retreat 4 Geeks 2012
Want to join me on a horse ranch in the Rockies?
iWish
A Christmas letter.
The last show of the year
I left my Event Apart in San Francisco.
One week of Map Tales
A grab-bag of stories, illustrated with maps.
The forgotten house
The internet never forgets to think that the internet never forgets.
Clean conditional loading
Tidying up some code I used in a 24 Ways article.
Hackfarming Map Tales
A week in the countryside.
Pattern primer
A little script to automatically generate a document of markup patterns.
Play me off
All’s fair in love’n’wikipedia.
Speaking, not hacking
I had fun at Build in Belfast but alas, I didn’t make it to Science Hack Day in San Francisco.
Pursuing semantic value
Agreeing and disagreeing with Divya.
Responsible responsive images
A future-friendly approach to mobile-first responsive design.
Timeless
Who knows where the time element goes?
Carpenter
I have come here to watch an all-night movie marathon and chew bubblegum. And I am all out of bubblegum.
Stallmania
Surprise parrot.
HTML5 For Web Designers
The website of the book.
Brookland
New Amsterdam.
Candygram
A child’s Halloween in Ireland.
One Web, transcribed
Listen, watch or read the presentation.
Analogue
Reading in the sky.
Building
Going to Belfast.
What technology wants
I cried too.
Ending September
I travelled. I talked.
Ten
Happy birthday to this.
My links, my links (my lovely lady links)
A public service announcement for those of you subscribed to my Delicious feed.
Improving Reality
Documenting the infinite loop between science fiction and reality in digital art, cinema and gaming.
Mobilewood
The birthplace of the Future Friendly movement.
Detection
Smart defaults are important, especially when it comes to server-side sniffing.
I, Interface
Any sufficiently-stretched analogy is indistinguishable from bullshit.
Boston Global Scope
This. This is how we should build for the web.
The Language of the Web
The Breaking Development conference was the perfect platform for discussing all things mobile.
The country songs of distant Earth
Greetings from Nashville, or possibly space.
Update
Annoying iOS developers for fun and for serious.
Makers in Brighton
All the fun of the Maker Faire.
dConstruction of the Fables
dConstruct 2011 was great …in my opinion.
Impostor syndrome
An overwhelming number of upcoming events.
A matter of protocol
Protocol-relative URLs.
Re-tabulate
Combining responsive design with CSS table layout to rearrange the display of content and navigation.
Re-flex
Putting content first by combining responsive design with the CSS3 flexible box layout module.
Days of science and hacking
Want to go to Science Hack Day San Francisco? Organise a Science Hack Day in your town.
Hot topics, transcribed
The transcription of the audio of the panel: hot stuff!
The Lost Lemonworld
Is it not strange that sheep’s guts should hale souls out of men’s bodies?
OurSpace
Our collective creativity, no matter how ugly, is worth preserving.
Digital Deathwatch
Waiting for the deletionist axe to fall.
Responsive dConstruction
I’m preparing a workshop for dConstruct on responsive design.
Citation needed
Oli Studholme argues for a change in the HTML5 spec …with science!
Farewell to June
A look back and a look ahead.
Mobilism transcription
A searchable record of the mobile browser panel.
Indie Web Camping
The dream of independent publishing is alive in Portland.
Ampersanded
The UK’s first web typography conference. It rocked.
Newcastling
Conferences in the UK.
L33t ski11z
One of these things may just change your life.
Ethan
There’s a book I want you to read.
Hashcloud
The web is agreement.
Topically hot
Am I hot topic or not? I want your suggestions for this year’s @media.
The good new days
Everything new is old again.
The sound of song
Sing.
Mobilism browser panel
Hats off to the conference, and hats off to the browser vendors who showed up.
Questioning mobile browsers
Got a question you’d like to ask of Opera, Nokia or RIM? Let me know.
Ampersand
Five weeks ‘till Brighton goes type mad.
Podchatting
Listen in to a conversation I had about responsive web design.
Bye, bye pride
Missing Grant McLennan.
An Event Apart apart
Failing to explain what made An Event Apart in Boston so special to me.
All Our Yesterdays: the links
Hyperlinks of digital preservation.
Jared Spool: The Secret Lives of Links
Liveblogging Jared’s talk at An Event Apart in Boston.
Ethan Marcotte: The Responsive Designer’s Workflow
Liveblogging Ethan’s talk at An Event Apart in Boston.
Luke Wroblewski: Mobile Web Design Moves
Liveblogging Luke’s talk at An Event Apart in Boston.
Veerle Pieters: The Experimental Zone
Liveblogging Veerle’s talk at An Event Apart in Boston.
Whitney Hess: Design Principles — The Philosophy of UX
Liveblogging Whitney’s presentation at An Event Apart in Boston.
Jeffrey Zeldman: What Every Web Designer Should Know — A Better You At What You Do
Liveblogging Jeffrey’s opening talk at An Event Apart in Boston.
Content First
In which I repeatedly hammer home the point that it’s all about the content.
Voice of the bot-hive
I for one welcome our new voice-activated algorithmic overlords.
Shanghai
My travel report.
The Kindle connection
For all the faults with its digital books, this little device is proving its worth.
Zånhae nights
上海
Lazy loading on Huffduffer
Lazy responsiveness or responsive laziness.
Respond
Another way of ensuring Internet Explorer gets your layout styles.
Windows mobile media queries
Solving that pesky Windows Phone 7 problem.
Botonomy
What if we had a Singularity and nobody showed up?
Skillful stories
An excellent night of narrative exploration in Brighton.
Orientation and scale
Attempting to patch a bug in Mobile Safari.
Principles Apart
Gathering many design principles into one document.
Baran
Revisiting the origins of the internet.
One hundred and seven
Sometimes only the word “awesome” will do.
Clarification
A follow-up on responsive web design.
Context
Clarifying the problem space of responsive web design.
Star Wars memories
A long time ago in the Pacific Northwest…
Caveat
The fine print.
Have Kindle, will travel
I want to love my Kindle, I really do.
The medium is the short message
The limits of Twitter.
Reflection
A little bit of navel-gazing on this year’s geekout in Austin.
South by south met
SxSW is Soylent Green.
Managing Southby
Lanyrd makes my life easier.
Drupalcon in Chi-town
Back in Chicago.
American Odyssey
Brighton to Illinois to Texas to Florida to Oregon to Washington to Brighton.
101000
My light cone envelopes Gliese 1214 b.
The long prep
Care to place a wager?
Voice of the Beeb hive
When is an explanation not an explanation?
Sea change
Don’t fear responsive design; embrace it.
New day rising
The present is a lumpy batter of the past and the future.
Going Postel
How hash-bang URLs violate the robustness principle.
Linkrotting
The difference between being on the web and being archived.
Erase and rewind
The BBC is planning to delete 172 websites.
A dark star is born
We are dark stardust, we are golden, we are puppets.
Three questions
A short Q&A for a magazine.
The Huffduffer Hotline
Get your Huffduffer fix down the phone line, thanks to Tropo .
Hacking History
An excellent weekend spent finding stories within data.
Clarity
HTML, with or without the 5, emerges stronger than ever after the confusion of the past few days.
Marklar Malkovich Smurf
Some links from ‘round the web on HTML5, HTML5, and also, HTML5.
Bye, bye 5
HTML5 is dead, long live HTML.
Badge of shame
The W3C embark on a mission to confuse and befuddle.
The design of datalist
Have your combo-box cake and eat your select fallback too.
Landmark roles
Extending the semantics of HTML5 documents with some accessibility hooks.
Tagdiving
Boolean tag combinations on Huffduffer.
The URI is the thing
My name is Jeremy and I am a URL fetishist.
DOM Scripting, second edition
My first book has been updated (though not by me).
Reading the street
Of hackers and hardware.