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“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!

Here’s an invaluable tool for HTML emails:

https://github.com/apparition47/MailTrackerBlocker

(for users, that is)

Me: [chanting] horse, horse-

Other devs: horse, HORSE

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

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

The occassional non-Irish tune is okay but you should balance it out with four of five trad Irish submissions.

A good rule of thumb is: would I play this in an Irish session?

Actually, I meant fix that ship stuck in the Suez canal. Just ’cause my mind had allocated equal importance to that and The Minecraft Situation.

Very happy that one of them has been resolved!

Yay!

Now do the ship.

Personally I prefer code previews to code reviews:

https://adactio.com/journal/12071

Can we talk about their deductive reasoning skills (or lack thereof)?

For example: “Tonight there’s going to be a jailbreak …somewhere in this town.”

Somewhere in this town‽

Like, maybe, oh, I don’t know …the jail perhaps?

Our two talks are going to be very on-message. I’m looking forward to the one-two punch!

Here’s @AliceBartlett talking about implementing a design system at the Financial Times—this was at Patterns Day in 2017:

https://adactio.com/links/12637

Hope that helps!

Herzlichen Glückwunsch! Sieht sehr schön aus!

This is like the Pluto-Goofy paradox all over again.

I quoted you on this topic in this episode of the Clearleft podcast:

https://podcast.clearleft.com/season02/episode01/

It’s fascinating to imagine the alternate universes of possibilities that might have formed out of the early discussions around the topology of the web:

https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Topology.html

Nein, wir kümmern uns nicht an solche Kleinigkeiten, Herr Haarspalter.

Thanks so much for filing that bug—much appreciated!

Oh, interesting! Image requests shouldn’t make a difference to that bit of the service worker. Thanks for spotting that!