Notes

Really, really enjoyed today’s @CIOLinguists talk from Jessica Coon—great stuff!

http://jessica.lingspace.org/

Off to see a luthier about a mandolin.

“Nothing is stopping you from doing the same.”

…if you’re also a white man.

(Otherwise it’s hard enough making a career out of doings things you are totally qualified for.)

Aw, that’s so kind of you—thank you so much, Jen!

Going to Lewes. brb

Here’s an invaluable tool for HTML emails:

https://github.com/apparition47/MailTrackerBlocker

(for users, that is)

So @NationalRailenq have reduced the colour contrast on their website—thereby rendering it inaccessible—as “a mark of respect.”

:-|

This is the perfect moment to mention the brilliant progressive web app https://traintimes.org.uk/

رمضان مبارك

Reading Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro.

Me: [chanting] horse, horse-

Other devs: horse, HORSE

Pit stop crew: [pounding their clipboard] HORSE, HORSE, HORSE!

Reading British Ice by Owen D. Pomery.

Two principles I’ve found to be univerally useful (to design, development, writing) are the robustness principle and the principle of least power:

https://adactio.com/journal/14327

Have you seen this?

https://twitter.com/generoom/status/1376084811421454337

19th Century NFTs of the Victorian transatlantic blockchain:

https://atlantic-cable.com/Souvenirs/1858Ads/

“A register will be kept of the orders as they are received…”