Here’s the video of the talk I gave on Wednesday evening all about my relationship with reading science fiction. There are handy chapter markers if you want to jump around.
Here’s the video of the talk I gave at the Web Stories conference back in February.
A genuinely interesting (and droll) deep dive into derp learning …for typography!
This is a great series of short videos all about content design. The one on writing for humans is particularly good.
Playing Christmas Eve (reel) on mandolin with @WordRidden on fiddle:
I really enjoyed this trip down memory lane with Chris:
From the Web’s inception, an ancient to contemporary history of the Web.
Tom gives a succinct history of the ongoing arms race between trackers and end users.
James has penned a sweeping arc from the The Mechanical Turk, Sesame Street, and Teletubbies to Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube.
Playing The Wren’s Nest (jig) on mandolin:
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
Playing Rip The Calico (reel) on mandolin:
Playing The Chapel Bell (jig) on mandolin:
A great talk by Ethan called The Design Systems Between Us.
Playing The Foxhunters (reel) on mandolin:
Playing The Kid On The Mountain (slip jig) on mandolin:
Playing Dinkey’s (reel) on mandolin:
Playing The Cuil Aodha (slide) on mandolin:
Playing Chief O’Neill’s Favourite (hornpipe) on bouzouki:
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: