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Journal archive: 2013
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That was my jam
Musical comet trails through 2013.
Sasstraction
The design of CSS.
Tracking
This post was deleted.
Defining the damn thang
We must go deeper.
Trust
Debit where debit is due.
A map to build by
We need to have a word with the web.
Icon fonts, unicode ranges, and IE8’s compatibility mode
A tricksy browser issue raises a dark spectre from the past.
Wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey stuff
Preparing the closing keynote for next week’s Full Frontal conference here in Brighton.
Medieval times
Two German trips in two months.
Classy values
Semantics and such.
America
Three cities in two weeks.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Today is Ada Lovelace day.
Listen to dConstruct 2013
For your huffduffing pleasure.
Radio Free Earth
Hazy cosmic jive.
Science Hack Day San Francisco
Getting excited and making things with science in the best possible venue.
The ghost of browsers past
Delving into old-fashioned parsing rules.
The literary operator
A beautiful machine.
CERN and the line-mode browser
Two days in geek paradise.
Parsing webmentions
Hell has frozen over …you can now comment on my site. But there’s a catch.
Smashing
Return to Freiburg.
dConstruct music
A short playlist.
dConstruct 2013
We came, we saw, we communicated with machines.
Testing webmentions
Ping! Ping! Ping!
Brighton Arton
Confronts the viewer with their relationship to stuff and things.
Counting down to dConstruct 2013
What a week!
August in America, day twenty-six
Chicago, Illinois.
August in America, day twenty-five
Chicago, Illinois.
August in America, day twenty-four
Chicago, Illinois.
August in America, day twenty-three
Chicago, Illinois.
August in America, day twenty-two
San Francisco, California; Chicago, Illinois.
August in America, day twenty-one
San Francisco, California.
August in America, day twenty
San Francisco, California.
August in America, day nineteen
San Francisco, California.
Double tap delay
That’s 300 milliseconds of my life that I’m never getting back.
August in America, day eighteen
San Francisco, California.
August in America, day seventeen
San Francisco, California.
August in America, day sixteen
San Diego, California; San Francisco, California.
August in America, day fifteen
San Diego, California.
August in America, day fourteen
San Diego, California.
August in America, day thirteen
San Diego, California.
August in America, day twelve
Tucson, Arizona; San Diego, California.
August in America, day eleven
Sierra Vista, Arizona.
August in America, day ten
Sierra Vista, Arizona.
August in America, day nine
Sierra Vista, Arizona.
August in America, day eight
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Atlanta, Georgia; Tucson, Arizona.
August in America, day seven
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
August in America, day six
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The dConstruct 2012 website
A little retrospective.
August in America, day five
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
August in America, day four
Alexandria, Virginia.
August in America, day three
Alexandria, Virginia.
August in America, day two
Calvert County, Maryland.
August in America, day one
Alexandria, Virginia.
The United States of August
Road tripping.
Brighton in September
Five weeks and counting to dConstruct 2013.
An Event Alarm
Banal Inception.
Progresponsive
Applying progressive enhancement to responsive navigation patterns.
Eventful
Rounding up some of Europe’s web gatherings.
A Gov Supreme
A big, big gov.
CERN dev days
Come hack with me where the web was born.
Tickets for dConstruct 2013
Get ‘em while they’re any temperature.
Battle for the planet of the APIs
API shall not kill API.
By any other name
Say “web app” One. More. Time!
Cheap’n’cheerful
The street will find its own uses for this device.
dConstruct bulletin
Some announcements about dConstruct 2013.
Mobilism hot topics panel
Got questions? Lemme ‘ave ‘em.
Inspiration calling
A phone call about the sincerest form of flattery.
dConstruct 2013
Put the date in your calendar.
Anniversary
It was twenty years ago today.
A dao revisited
Musing on a thirteen year old piece of writing on the web.
Responsive workshopping
A half-day workshop I did at this year’s UX London.
And be damned
Writing, publishing, sharing, speaking.
Promo
A word from our sponsors.
Not tumbling, but spiralling
I’m going to miss Tumblr when it’s gone.
Placehold on tight
Getting consistent browser behaviour for the placeholder attribute.
Off-canvas horizontal lists
Sharing a pattern that didn’t quite work.
Slow glass
Other days, other eyes.
Told you so
In which I permit myself a moment to gloat about liquid layouts.
Tools of the trade
Apps for designers.
Responsive audio out
All the talks are available for your listening and huffduffing pleasure.
Oh, what a Responsive Day Out that was!
Out of the park.
Responsive day soon
Counting down the days.
Jets dream
A modest proposal for long-distance air travel.
Designing for Touch by Josh Clark
Liveblogging Josh’s talk at An Event Apart in Atlanta.
Responsive and Responsible by Scott Jehl
Liveblogging Scott’s talk at An Event Apart in Atlanta.
It’s a Write/Read Mobile Web by Luke Wroblewski
Liveblogging Luke’s talk at An Event Apart in Atlanta.
Billboards and Novels by Jon Tan
Liveblogging Jon’s talk at An Event Apart in Atlanta.
Strong Layout Systems by Eric Meyer
Liveblogging Eric’s talk at An Event Apart in Atlanta.
10 Commandments of Web Design by Jeffrey Zeldman
Liveblogging Jeffrey’s talk at An Event Apart in Atlanta.
Counting down to the Responsive Day Out
Just two weeks to go.
Tweakpoints
Not all media queries are created equal.
A question of style
The only correct coding style is the one everyone is agreeing to use.
Open device labs
The communal device lab is here for us to use.
When is a link not a link?
When it’s a void.
The main issue
An email to the HTML working group.
Figuring out
You can quote me on this markup pattern.
The test
What’s the first thing you do?
Twitter permissions
Don’t be sheeple, tweeple!
Long time
Why does a decade on the web feel like an epoch?
A question of time
My answer to a deceptively simple-sounding question.
Clearleft.com past and present
Design iterations over eight years.
Dealing with IE again
Some clarification.
Responsive Day Out updates
A line-up change and an after-party.
Dealing with IE
The hacks we shouldn’t have to do.
New year, old year
Goodbye 2012, hello 2013.