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Saturday, May 14th, 2022
Monday, May 9th, 2022
Replying to a tweet from @css
Ah, memories!
It was 18 years ago that @Clagnut introduced the idea:
(Not that he—or anyone else—would recommend it these days!)
Wednesday, May 4th, 2022
Replying to a tweet from @ppk
That tracks with what I wrote about in the sequel to that post:
Friday, April 29th, 2022
Replying to a tweet from @dfkaye
That makes total sense for a codebase that lives on your own machine or a server. But applied to client-side code it means the user has to download a library to satisfy a developer’s convenience.
“Don’t build what your users can download”
Thursday, April 28th, 2022
Replying to a tweet from @Cennydd
And so Silicon Valley becomes a kind of Roko’s Basilisk for The Torment Nexus—the act of publishing dystopian fiction makes you complicit, despite your best intentions.
Replying to a tweet from @Cennydd
By theorizing well in advance of data, science fiction provides a framework for developing and testing ethical standards for the treatment of AI.
— Amanda Rees
Replying to a tweet from @simonw

I’ve used this as an example in conference talks about interaction design.
Tuesday, April 26th, 2022
Replying to a tweet from @UXup_Brighton
Alas, I won’t be there myself (I’m going to see @LowTheBand that evening).
Replying to a tweet from @benjaminparry
- There’ll be an Irish music session in the front bar from 8:30pm.
Monday, April 25th, 2022
Replying to a tweet from @jina
Strong agree. I miss it too. 😔
Replying to a tweet from @simonw
I use NetNewsWire by @BrentSimmons and I love it.
Replying to a tweet from @jina
Too soon, Jina. Too soon.
Sunday, April 24th, 2022
Replying to a tweet from @Mappletons
Yup! I use an A3 sheet of paper.
When it comes to comparable software, kinopio.club is the closest I’ve found: https://adactio.com/journal/17425
Saturday, April 23rd, 2022
Replying to a tweet from @AdaRoseCannon
No, there’s absolutely nothing in the spec that says a footer
needs to go at the bottom. So, yes, you can have a footer
immediately follow a header
and then have the main content (I’ve used that pattern for bylines).
Replying to a tweet from @edent
The footer
element inside sectioning content can by used for bylines:
A footer typically contains information about its section such as who wrote it…
https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/sections.html#the-footer-element
Friday, April 22nd, 2022
Replying to a tweet from @meyerweb
Super useful!
(Though for consistency I would use max-inline-size
instead of max-width
—I’m still retraining my brain to use logical properties and it throws me to see directional and logical declarations together.)
Thursday, April 21st, 2022
Replying to a tweet from @alcides
Yay for bugblogging!
Wednesday, April 20th, 2022
Replying to a tweet from @zeldman
Here’s a terrific presentation all about fluid spacing and typography:
Replying to a tweet from @wcbytes
Here’s how I syndicate to Twitter: https://adactio.com/journal/6826
For Swarm, it works in the other direction: https://adactio.com/journal/12606
Friday, April 15th, 2022
Replying to a tweet from @scottfennell123
The imperative nature is the way you provide exact instructions—as you say, any unit, any property—on a specific element, and forego any kind of cascade from that element’s ancestors (a more declarative way of thinking).