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Tuesday, September 19th, 2023

Replying to @cferdinandi on mastodon.social

I love to see unplanned harmonic resonances like this!

Replying to @scottjenson@social.coop on mastodon.social

From the reader of your blog’s perspective, there’s also Simon’s rule to consider:

https://adactio.com/journal/20457

I will not publish anything that takes someone else longer to read than it took me to write.

Wednesday, September 13th, 2023

Replying to @colepeters@mastodon.online on mastodon.social

Ooooh, cool! Colour me very intrigued indeed—really looking forward to seeing it!

Thursday, August 10th, 2023

Replying to @chriscoyier@front-end.social on mastodon.social

Yeah, but it looks like we’re serenading our pints!

Monday, August 7th, 2023

Replying to @sjorsrijsdam on mastodon.social

It’s actually one of the oldest web components in the wild—Github’s been using it for a decade:

https://github.com/github/relative-time-element

(But I wanted something I could drop into an existing site without changing markup.)

Wednesday, August 2nd, 2023

Replying to @craigmod on mastodon.social

Did you take any pictures of Ella‽

Tuesday, August 1st, 2023

Replying to @migurski on mastodon.social

Thanks for the pointer!

I was able to update my “indy map” in no time:

https://adactio.com/archive/2023/map

Friday, July 21st, 2023

Replying to @Luke@typo.social on mastodon.social

No, I’ll be playing traditional Irish music all next week: https://www.belfasttraditionalmusic.com/

Replying to @Luke@typo.social on mastodon.social

How long are you going to be in Belfast? I’m heading there tomorrow.

Friday, July 14th, 2023

Replying to @windhamdavid@universeodon.com on mastodon.social

I use https://brid.gy/ to get sent webmentions whenever there’s a response to a syndicated post.

I wrote up some of my bits’n’bobs a while back here:

https://adactio.com/journal/7698

Replying to @edsu@social.coop on mastodon.social

Yeah, under the hood it’s a horrific concoction of PHP and MySQL.

Replying to @edsu@social.coop on mastodon.social

For posting notes, there’s a form that appears just for me (if I’m logged in) in that section of the site:

https://dribbble.com/shots/2744316-Notes-posting-interface

Wednesday, July 12th, 2023

Replying to @rem@front-end.social on mastodon.social

Something like this, perhaps?

https://2023.uxlondon.com/speakers/asia-hoe/

Friday, July 7th, 2023

Replying to @Edent on mastodon.social

There’s a chapter about it in the Francis Spufford book, Backroom Boys: The Secret Return of the British Boffin.

https://uk.bookshop.org/a/980/9780571214976

Replying to @adrian@holovaty.com on mastodon.social

I love that this twenty-year old blog post is still available at its original URL …and that I can read the comments from @anildash@me.dm, @daveshea@tilde.zone, and @beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com.

Thursday, July 6th, 2023

Replying to @Meyerweb on mastodon.social

That was Dunstan Orchard!

http://1976design.com/blog/

Sunday, July 2nd, 2023

Replying to @ben@werd.social on mastodon.social

Circe by Madeline Miller.

Saturday, July 1st, 2023

Replying to @Luke@typo.social on mastodon.social

Thursday, June 29th, 2023

Replying to @beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com on mastodon.social

Wednesday, June 28th, 2023

Replying to @Edent on mastodon.social

Mind you, the browser makers told us that container queries were impossible, and they told us an ancestor selector (:has) was impossible, yet here we are!

It might be time to re-petition the CSS powers-that-be.