I wrote close to a hundred entries in my journal—or blog—in 2023. Here are some entries I like:
- Blood — One hundred duck-sized Christs is better than one horse-sized Jesus.
- Tragedy — Greek tragedies are time-travel stories.
- Reaction — Weekend action, weekend reaction.
- Conduct — Kindnesses and cruelties.
- Lovers in a dangerous time — Europe, 1991.
I wrote some actually useful stuff about web design and development too.
- Three attributes for better web forms — Better UX through better HTML: inputmode, enterkeyhint, and autocomplete.
- Read-only web apps — It’s fine to require JavaScript for read/write functionality. But have you considered a read-only mode without JavaScript?
- event.target.closest — DOM scripting and event handling.
- HTML web components — Don’t replace. Augment.
That last one really resonated with people, which is very gratifying. It was so nice seeing the web mentions come in when people wrote responses on their own blogs.
It feels like there’s been a resurgence in this kind of blog-to-blog conversation since Elongate. Personal publishing is reviving as Twitter is dying (I’m not going to call it X—if he’s going to deadname his own daughter, I’m going to do the same to his company).
If you have your own website, I’m looking forward to reading your words in 2024.
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