Tom’s videos are so good! Did you see his excellent in-depth piece on copyright?
This one is all about APIs and the golden age of Web 2.0 when we were free to create mashups.
It pairs nicely with a piece by another Tom from a couple of years back on the joy of Twitterbots.
Here’s a BBC adaption of that J.G. Ballard short story I recorded. It certainly feels like a story for our time.
I understand less than half of this great talk by Meredith L. Patterson, but it ticks all my boxes: Leibniz, Turing, Borges, and Postel’s Law.
(via Tim Berners-Lee)
Here’s the live podcast recording I was on at the View Source conference in Amsterdam a while back, all about the history of JavaScript.
My contribution starts about ten minutes in. I really, really enjoyed our closing chat around the 25 minute mark.
It was such a pleasure and an honour to watch Saron at work—she did an amazing job!
On the internet, everything can appear equally legitimate. Breitbart resembles the BBC. The fictitious Protocols of the Elders of Zion look as valid as an ADL report. And the rantings of a lunatic seem as credible as the findings of a Nobel Prize winner. We have lost, it seems, a shared sense of the basic facts upon which democracy depends.
A very handy web component from Paul—this works exactly like a regular YouTube embed, but is much more performant.
Cassie’s excellent talk on SVG animation is well worth your time.
Here’s the livestream of the talk I gave at Paris Web—Going Offline, complete with French live-captioning and simultaneous interpretation in .
I had a chat with Vitaly for half an hour about all things webby. It was fun!
Myself and Jessica joining in some reels and jigs.
This is a clever use of the srcdoc attribute on iframes.
This is a fascinating look at how you can get the benefits of React and npm without using React and npm.
Here’s an accompanying article on the same topic.
Here’s the opening keynote I gave at Frontend United in Utrecht a few weeks back.
Here’s the video of the talk I gave at State Of The Browser last year. The audio is a bit out of sync with the video.
The talk is called The Web Is Agreement. It’s ostensibly about web standards, but I used that as a jumping off point for talking about life, the universe, and everything.
I enjoyed giving this talk, but I’ve only ever given it this one time. If you know of any events where this talk would be a good fit, let me know.
Heydon cracks me up—his Patterns Day is going to have you crying with laughter; guaranteed!
Here he is talking about custom properties in CSS as part of his Making Future Interfaces video series.
This is a fascinating story of psychological manipulation and internal politics. It leaves me feeling queasy about the amount of power wielded by individuals in one single organisation.
I missed this when it was first posted three years ago, but now I think I’ll be revisiting this 12 minute interview every few months.
Everything that Kyle says here is spot on, nuanced, and thoughtful. He talks about abstraction, maintainability, learning, and complexity.
I want a transcript of the whole thing.
Cassie’s terrific talk from Bytes Conf, featuring some wild CSS experiments.
(Conference organisers—you want Cassie on your stage!)
![Limitation Breeds Creativity - Cassie Evans [Bytes Conf 2019]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/cgDBFldyJdM/mqdefault.jpg)
This is the lovely little film about our WorldWideWeb hack project. It was shown yesterday at CERN during the Web@30 celebrations. That was quite a special moment.
This documentary, made entirely with archive footage, looks like it will be amazing! I really hope I get to see it in a cinema.
Crafted from a newly discovered trove of 65mm footage, and more than 11,000 hours of uncatalogued audio recordings, Apollo 11 takes us straight to the heart of NASA’s most celebrated mission—the one that first put men on the moon, and forever made Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin into household names.
Aw! What about Michael Collins‽ He’s always the Ringo of the mission, even though he was the coolest dude.
![APOLLO 11 [Official Trailer]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/3Co8Z8BQgWc/mqdefault.jpg)