Audio I listened to in 2017
Twelve podcast episodes I huffduffed.
Journal archive: 2017
78
Books I read in 2017
An equal mix of fiction and non-fiction.
The Last Jedi
Star Wars Episode VIII
Ubiquity and consistency
Under-engineering, over-engineering, wombling free.
Origin story
Did you know that the World Wide Web has fifty words for document?
Nosediving
What’s the score?
Getaway
Return to Fury Road
An associative trail
Intertwingled hyperlinks.
Hooked and booked
Is A/B testing a gateway to dark patterns?
Brighton conferences
Two weeks, four conferences.
What is a Progressive Web App?
Defining the damn thing.
Installing Progressive Web Apps
Trying to get the balance right between discoverability and intrusiveness.
The dConstruct Audio Archive works offline
Now you can save audio files for later listening.
Speak and repeat
The lifecycle of a conference talk.
The meaning of AMP
Google’s alternative facts.
Pattern Libraries, Performance, and Progressive Web Apps
You should hire Clearleft for these front-end development skills.
Notifications
Instagram and Swarm are on notice.
Акула
Taxi Driver meets The Hunt For Red October.
Singapore
Kicking off the Mozilla Developer Roadshow.
Sonic sparklines
Silly sounds.
Problem space
It’s all about the people, people.
Brian Aldiss
1925 - 2017
60 seconds over Idaho
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Unacceptable usage
Shopify should dropify Breitbart.
Material 2017
An excellent day of inspiration in Iceland.
Intolerable
I dislike your manifestbro, let’s put it to the test-o.
Posting to my site
The I/O of adactio.com
Seamfulness
Expose the connections.
Putting on a conference
Organising Patterns Day.
Container queries
Houdini to the rescue?
The magical and the mundane
Any sufficiently advanced technology is a tiny pony.
CSS
Respect.
Patterns Day videos
The first video is online for your enjoyment.
Words
When I hear the phrase “I reach for my revolver”, I reach for my red pen.
Patterns Day
What a day! What a lovely Patterns Day!
Progressing the web
Don’t let the name distract you—progressive web apps are for everyone.
One week to Patterns Day
This is the email I just sent out to all the attendees.
The schedule for Patterns Day
Just look at that line-up!
Talking with the tall man about poetry
Chatting with Jeff Veen about the art and science of web design.
eLife goes live
Collaborating on a pattern library.
Month maps
Visualising activity over time.
Aurora
Kim Stanley Robinson’s tour-de-force.
Checking in at Indie Web Camp Nuremberg
Posting from Swarm to my own site.
A workshop on evaluating technology
A framework for choosing your web toolkit.
Going offline at Indie Web Camp Düsseldorf
Making a better offline page.
Sponsoring Patterns Day
The only way left to get hold of tickets for the event.
A minority report on artificial intelligence
Revisiting Spielberg’s films after a decade and a half.
Patterns Day speakers
The line-up is now complete.
Styling the Patterns Day site
A few days in Gridlandia.
Designing the Patterns Day site
A design exercise for the Clearleft UI designers.
Announcing Patterns Day: June 30th
A one-day event in Brighton dedicated to design systems, pattern libraries, and style guides.
Getting griddy with it
CSS Grid Layout is so hot right now.
Balance
Mixing today’s practicalities with yesterday’s building blocks.
Open source
The lows are low, but the highs are high.
Code (p)reviews
Just what is it that I do, anyway?
Writing on the web
Thank you, writers.
Progressive Web App questions
Four answers.
In AMP we trust
But AMP doesn’t trust us.
Empire State
Non-humans of New York.
Small steps
Making marginal gains in front-end performance.
Long betting
Over halfway there.
Variable fonts
The future of typography is here.
Amber
A new partnership.
Teaching in Porto, day five
Friday: self-directed learning.
Teaching in Porto, day four
Thursday: putting it all together.
Teaching in Porto, day three
Wednesday: interaction design.
Teaching in Porto, day two
Tuesday: designing from the content out.
Teaching in Porto, day one
Monday: how the web works.
From New York to Porto
From FOMO to imposter syndrome in a fortnight.
Audio book
Resilient Web Design, the podcast.
Charlotte
Bidding farewell.
Looking beyond launch
We’ll fix it in post.
Making Resilient Web Design work offline
The service worker strategy for a web book.
Going rogue
The only way is ethics.
Contact
Inner space, outer space.
Vertical limit
The headache of an inconsistent viewport.
2016 reading list
Trying to keep track of what I read.
Twenty sixteen
The year gone by.