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I love to see unplanned harmonic resonances like this!

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.

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

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

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.)

Did you take any pictures of Ella‽

Thanks for the pointer!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Something like this, perhaps?

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

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

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.

That was Dunstan Orchard!

http://1976design.com/blog/

Circe by Madeline Miller.

Here’s a chaser for the shot:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/adactio/263512030/in/album-72157594317693606/

Maggie Appleton https://maggieappleton.com

Winnie Lim https://winnielim.org

Ava Zeldman https://avazeldman.com

Piper Haywood https://piperhaywood.com

Ana Rodrigues https://ohhelloana.blog

Chris Coyier https://chriscoyier.net

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.