Archive: 2012

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.