Canvas sparklines
Scripting Tufte’s bite-sized charts.
Journal archive: 2012
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Returning control
To love something, it has to be set free.
Hackfarming Politmus
Eighteen go to Dorset.
More Responsive Day Out
Get a ticket while stocks last.
The Session
Finally, the Irish music community site gets an overhaul.
Responsive Day Out
Come on down to Brighton on March 1st, 2013. A great day out for £50!
Six impossible questions
Answers on an impossible postcard please.
Building Matter
Today is launch day for an exceptionally good project.
Full fathom frontal
A day of front-end fun in Brighton.
Iconic imagery
Responsive images, compressive images, and icon fonts. Take your pick.
Progress
Something is happening.
A treat grows in Brooklyn
Brooklyn Beta 2012. Good times.
Visionaries
A memory of Austin prompted by a readlist of seminal technology papers.
Responsive readlist
Links from a workshop.
iOS Six Fix
Finally, a cure for the common bug.
To CERN with love
Awesome.
Scrollin’, scrollin’, scrollin’
Keep them updates scrollin’.
Relations
Apple’s lack of developer relations for Safari needs to change.
RoboHornet’s nest
For shame, Microsoft.
Open device labs
Bring me your phones, your tablets, your huddled devices.
Rounding up dConstruct 2012
Blog posts and pictures from attendees.
Return to Freiburg
Thanks to Smashing Magazine, I had the chance to revisit my old haunts.
Listen to Brighton SF
The audio (and transcript) is available for your listening (and reading) pleasure.
Blame
The victim.
The email notification anti-pattern: a response
Hanlon’s Razor in action.
The email notification anti-pattern
Here’s an email I sent to Findings (in response to the many emails I’ve suddenly been getting from them).
The mind-blowing awesomeness of dConstruct 2012
Preceded by the mind-blowing awesomeness of Brighton SF.
Questions, please
What should I ask Brian Aldiss, Lauren Beukes, and Jeff Noon?
Maptales of Brighton
The places to be.
From Chicago to Brighton
Geeking it up on both sides of the Atlantic.
Restoration mirror
The welcome return of The Mirror Project.
Tweetpolice
Twitter, take your display “requirements” and shove ‘em.
Your own words
Reclaim what you publish: come along to IndieWebCamp in Brighton on September 9th.
URIslands in the stream
Goodbye, splash screen. Hello, stream.
Navicon
Three lines.
Generating placeholders from datalists
Some JavaScript to spruce up forms in HTML5 documents.
Laboratory conditions
The testlab setup.
Noon
Brighton SF just got even better.
Countdown to September
Preparing for the Brighton Digital Festival.
Things
Read these things about things on the network.
How do I convince…?
All of this has happened before. All of this will happen again.
Device labs
Brighton, London, Malmö…
Brighton SF
I’m gathering together some sci-fi authors the evening before dConstruct.
Austin Apart
A conference in Texas. No, not that one.
Manual
Always read the meatspace lump of dead-tree atoms.
Cables
Hacker tourism.
September in Brighton
The Brighton Digital Festival returns.
Conferencing
May: The Netherlands, Belgium, and Canada. June: nothing. July: Barcelona and Austin.
Turing
Happy birthday, Alan.
Device expansion
Some more device grist for the communal testing mill.
Pepys out
The end of an internet era.
dConstructickets
Get ‘em while they’re hot.
Secret src
Hammering out the issues around standardising responsive images.
Your local mobile device lab
Opening up the Clearleft device lab has resulted in more devices.
Questions for Mobilism
I’m going to be moderating two panel discussions. What should I ask the panelists?
dConstruct optimisation
Tweaking the dConstruct 2012 site for performance.
Left to our own devices
Pop ‘round to the Clearleft office if you want to test a site on our devices.
Conditional CSS
The results are in. Here’s what you came up with to solve the problem of conditional loading with CSS.
Fanfare for the common breakpoint
“Common” breakpoints are the new fold.
Conditionally loading content
Conditional loading is a great technique for responsive designs but we need a better way of communicating between CSS and JavaScript.
Announcing dConstruct 2012
Save the date: September 7th, 2012 is going to be a fantastic day in Brighton.
AudioGO
Getting a DMCA takedown notice for linking to an audio file that doesn’t exist.
Twilight
The slow disappearance of a storage medium.
Responsive questions
Responding to responsiveness, as prompted by MacUser UK magazine.
Sharing pattern libraries
I, for one, welcome our new sharing and caring overlords of markup and CSS.
Of Time and the Network and the Long Bet
Matt has accepted the challenge I threw down in my Webstock talk (which has now been transcribed).
The Southby and the Southby
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Austin to be born?
South by CSS
Talking to the browser makers about vendor prefixes.
Space by Botwest
A day of robots, science hacks, digital preservation and the new aesthetic.
Prix Fixe
Hyperlinks relating to CSS vendor prefixes.
Remembering Ralph McQuarrie
A visionary.
What do I know?
Five things I learned from the internet.
Getting ahead in advertising
My sense of entitlement. Let me show it to you.
Webstocked
I went all the way to New Zealand and all I got was this kick-ass conference.
Image-y nation
A responsive image technique leads to some nostalgia for the early days of web development.
Publishing Paranormal Interactivity
Read the transcript of my talk from An Event Apart 2010.
dConstruct Audio Archive
Seven years of audio goodness gathered together in one place.
Brighton Coffee
A map tale.
Detection
A mobile-first approach to UA-sniffing.
Making
Thinglinking.
Eighteen
Pausing to give thanks.
Cool your eyes don’t change
The transcript of the audio of the video of the talk from Build.
One moment
Archiving a special mention by the greatest archivist of them all.
Audio Update
How I wish that conference audio were as widespread of conference video. Speaking of which, I’ve transcribed my talk from the Update conference.
Media queries and multiple columns
Responsiveness in the second dimension.
Months and years
Progressively enhancing form fields.
Command lines
Multiple ways of getting into Huffduffer.
Who goes there?
From another world.
Osushi
Documenting the pursuit of perfection in Japan.