The Layers of the Web - Jeremy Keith - YouTube
Here’s the video of the talk I gave at the Web Stories conference back in February.
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Monday, April 12th, 2021
Tuesday, April 6th, 2021
Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters: Advances in Derp Learning
A genuinely interesting (and droll) deep dive into derp learning …for typography!
Sunday, March 28th, 2021
Content Design Basics by Giles Turnbull - YouTube
This is a great series of short videos all about content design. The one on writing for humans is particularly good.
Thursday, December 24th, 2020
Playing Christmas Eve (reel) on mandolin with @WordRidden on fiddle:
Monday, December 14th, 2020
History of the Web - YouTube
I really enjoyed this trip down memory lane with Chris:
From the Web’s inception, an ancient to contemporary history of the Web.
Monday, November 30th, 2020
Why The Web Is Such A Mess - YouTube
Tom gives a succinct history of the ongoing arms race between trackers and end users.
Thursday, November 12th, 2020
The Great Distractor — Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy
James has penned a sweeping arc from the The Mechanical Turk, Sesame Street, and Teletubbies to Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube.
Thursday, November 5th, 2020
Playing The Wren’s Nest (jig) on mandolin:
Wednesday, October 21st, 2020
Chrome exempts Google sites from user site data settings
Collusion between three separate services owned by the same company: the Google search engine, the YouTube website, and the Chrome web browser.
Gosh, this kind of information could be really damaging if there were, say, antitrust proceedings initiated.
In the meantime, use Firefox
Monday, October 19th, 2020
Playing Rip The Calico (reel) on mandolin:
Wednesday, October 7th, 2020
Playing The Chapel Bell (jig) on mandolin:
Saturday, October 3rd, 2020
SydCSS 7th Birthday with Ethan Marcotte - YouTube
A great talk by Ethan called The Design Systems Between Us.
Playing The Foxhunters (reel) on mandolin:
Friday, October 2nd, 2020
Playing The Kid On The Mountain (slip jig) on mandolin:
Thursday, October 1st, 2020
Playing Dinkey’s (reel) on mandolin:
Wednesday, September 30th, 2020
Playing The Cuil Aodha (slide) on mandolin:
Tuesday, September 29th, 2020
Playing Chief O’Neill’s Favourite (hornpipe) on bouzouki:
Monday, September 28th, 2020
Chris Ferdinandi: The Lean Web | July 2020 - YouTube
A great presentation on taking a sensible approach to web development. Great advice, as always, from the blogging machine that is Chris Ferdinandi.
The web is a bloated, over-engineered mess. And, according to developer and educator Chris Ferdinandi, many of our modern “best practices” are actually making the web worse. In this talk, Chris explores The Lean Web, a set of principles for a simpler, faster world-wide web.
Playing The Coleraine (jig) on mandolin:
Sunday, September 27th, 2020
Playing The Colliers’ (reel) on mandolin: