Links
2023
- Brian Eno
- Judge Tosses Block Shareholder Lawsuit Over ‘Terrible’ Tidal Purchase
- Answered Prayers: England and the 1966 World Cup review – agonising and absorbing
- Premier League and Fifa helpless against Saudi juggernaut’s relentless progress
- ALIENS (1986) Audio Description
- Elon Musk, Once Again, Tries To Throttle Links To Sites He Dislikes
- There’s Meaning in the Ordering of the Web’s Tech Stack
- Meta’s Threads Didn’t Launch In The EU: Is That Showing The Failure Or Success Of The Digital Markets Act?
- In Defense of the Yugo
- Labour byelection activists warned: ‘Show respect to Tory voters or go home’
- More than 1,5 million streams brought me royalties
- The Whiteness of Mastodon
- Pain, No Gain
- The algorithmic anti-culture of scale
- Wild and Tattered Kingdom
- My temporary disability and how I coped with it
- My jeans’ metadata may outlive the company that sold them
- Montana State Library Commission Votes to Withdraw From American Library Association (ALA)
- In defense of Deliverism
- The joyless polity
- John Gruber Doesn’t Know What He’s Talking About
- How to enjoy your SecondSelf Skinset Pro
- Isn’t That Spatial?
- Writing, Fragments, and the Memex Method
- Book Club: The Next Chapter review – four go mad in Italy in excruciating comedy sequel
- Why I Retired My Webmention Server
- The problem with sticky menus and what to do instead
- Skinny Guardian
- Updog
- Don’t use custom CSS scrollbars
- No more home makeovers! The horror show of renting in Britain finally comes to TV
- Review of Tidal after a year: hot garbage
- Markdownify Jekyll Titles to Make Them Pretty
- 23 years ago…
- Substack Notes moderation
- Disappearing schools, families forced out – and we call this progress
- The Lifehouse: Distributed community support centers for the Long Emergency
- Beyond daylight ethics
- Nostalgia curdles
- So long, Twitter API, and thanks for all the fish
- Free portraits of Charles III for all public bodies, but £8m cost branded ‘shameful’
- Beware Hunt’s hype. There’s more poverty ahead and his budget did nothing to change that
- I do want to go back to social media
- Netlify CMS to Become Decap CMS: What You Need to Know
- Fandom is fun!!!!
- Re; Reading social streams in feed reader
- Rats, mould, damp: one woman’s story reveals the ugly truth about the UK’s biggest housing association
- Provide Blog Metadata via JSON-LD
- What is simple web design?
- Screen: twice as big. Information: 1/4 of original.
- The disinformation about the disinformation
- Goodbye Mastodon, Hello RSS.
- ‘It’s a homage to what Mark E Smith taught us’: ex-Fall members House of All deny exploiting band’s legacy
- Modern Health, frameworks, performance, and harm
- “Make It Go Woomph!” New Order's Low-Life Revisited
- Reading Tristram Shandy in an Age of Distraction
- Off His Royal Tits
- The End of Writing
- Spotify to cut 600 jobs after CEO admits to expanding too quickly
- How to Review a Web Site
- Sending your First Webmention from Scratch
- Whenever I get a notification for an iOS update I think it’s the last one my iPhone SE will get
- A Marxist View of Tolkien’s Middle Earth
- How Twitter misleads us about how many people have left — and what to do about it
- The ‘Tumblrification’ of social media
- Forestry.io End of Life
- A global recession may be looming, but there is a way out of this rut
- On Running a Mastodon Instance
- Why I quit Twitter… a decade ago
- Chartbook #184 – Nostalgia for decline in deconvergent Britain
- Benoit Symposium: Writers in the DPRK: The Invisible Stars
2022
- They don’t only take our labor.
- Can Just Stop Oil make the case for protest?
- The ethics of syndicating comments using WebMentions
- Are personal Mastodon instances bad for discovery?
- Programming is a Pop Culture
- The Age of Social Media Is Ending
- Does Jeremy Corbyn Need the Labour Party?
- I don't want to go back to social media
- Picture perfect images with the modern img element
- Oh! Brother: MARCIA SCHOFIELD — Anecdotes and Antidotes in B#
- ‘Who remembers proper binmen?’ The nostalgia memes that help explain Britain today
- In praise of conventional thinking
- Social Media Is Dead
- Big Tech’s Algorithms Are Built With Invisible Labor
- Minimal Dark Mode
- Programming Portals
- Building the main navigation for a website
- CSS Classes considered harmful
- Arts funding in England is a thin gruel that organisations are forced to beg for
- Jah Wobble: In Conversation On Get Carter At 50
- Mick Lynch Is Tired of Workers Getting Screwed
- Pathologically boring men (and girlbosses)
- The Northern Roots of Modernist Sci-Fi
- Handling Long Words and URLs (Forcing Breaks, Hyphenation, Ellipsis, etc)
- Minimal Social Markup
- Some thoughts about blogging and “style”
- You couldn’t write a sentence this bad IF YOU TRIED.
- Striking workers are providing the opposition that Britain desperately needs
- Crossed Rails
- Write HTML Right
- The smallest CSS
- On Ido and Far-Right Subversion
- Hatpin through the Brain
- Atlanta Apple Store Employees Drop Bid for Union Vote Next Week
- The greasy spoon chronicles: a day in the life of the Hope Workers Cafe
- W3C TAG Ethical Web Principles
- A Future City From The Past
- The Blazers have been usurped by the Blokes in cricket’s corridors of power
- Divinely-Inspired Art: John Higgs on William Blake’s Visions of the Sublime
- The Demise of the Mildly Dynamic Website
- Life on the edge: Land loss on England’s east coast – a photo essay
- ‘I come to the library to keep warm’: Norfolk residents battling fuel poverty
- The Librarians Are Not Okay
- Action, inaction and ‘cancel culture’
- What I learned about markdown from interviewing a bunch of people
- On the Disappearing of Joan Vollmer Burroughs
- 👍👍 A complete failure: The story of Norwich City’s relegation from the Premier League
- Mastodon's Eugen Rochko Talks Decentralization, Blockchain, And Grifters
- Nature writing’s ill-defined, thriving ecosystem
- Applied for Student Aid Online? Facebook Saw You
- The Flanders phenomenon: how Belgian buildings went from joke to genius
- What is it Like to Be a Blind Writer Writing for Sighted Readers?
- That Wasn’t Right, Mark: When Fat White Family Met The Fall
- Klaus Schulze Has Died, Aged 74
- It Took The Night To Believe: Greg “The Lord” Anderson Interviewed
- Mastodon and the future of Twitter
- So Elon Musk Bought Twitter
- So, About That Bug Fucking: A Conversation with Chris Panatier
- Designing Better Navigation With Navigation Queries
- Childish Font Sizes
- The Future of the Web Is Marketing Copy Generated by Algorithms
- The Digital Age is Destroying Us
- Have We Forgotten How to Read Critically?
- How Darwin Influenced Marx and Engels
- Meet the Socialist Librarian Running for President of the American Library Association
- Drabinski Wins 2023–2024 ALA Presidency
- The Meaning of Slaughterhouse-Five, 50 Years Later
- The Side Effects of Tailored Digital Experiences
- Farewell to Nakagin Tower
- Kurt Vonnegut’s Socialism From Outer Space
- Bad news
- Optimising Largest Contentful Paint
- The Cult of the Imperfect
- Peak Content is an entropic force
- That big sliding banner? Yeah, it’s rubbish
- Write HTML, the HTML Way (Not the XHTML Way)
- Steve Albini – Didn’t We Deserve a Look at You the Way You Really Are
- Unfortunate, But Not Surprising: Court Blocks Maryland’s Library eBook Law
- The Meaning of Marcelo Bielsa
- Canned web development
- Digital detox tourism: Practices of analogization
- Mark Zuckerberg and team consider shutting down Facebook and Instagram in Europe if Meta can not process Europeans’ data on US servers
- Why I used to build websites
- Strategic impotence
- Designing books for readers with early‑stage Alzheimer’s disease
- Levelling Up the United Kingdom: executive summary
- Newsletter No. 25: ‘Painting the Forth Bridge’
- Can Matt Mullenweg save the internet?
- Revisiting why hyperlinks are blue
- Yesterday, I finished reading Selected Ambient Works Volume II by Marc Weidenbaum…
2021
- Add a Service Worker to Your Site
- This distraction-free editor is the best writing tool you aren’t using
- Choosing [the] least CO2-emitting form of digital communication
- Your CSS is an interface
- Adrian Chiles Does Not Miss
- Matthew Le Tissier and the Cosmic Right
- Less of “Less”
- Chatbots and the cult of technology
- So Long, Firefox
- The Bright Magic Podcast (Public Service Broadcasting on Berlin)
- Britain’s Mental Health Crisis Isn’t an Accident – It’s a Political Choice
- A thrilling encounter on the most inauspicious of days
- Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech
- The internet was built for connection – how did it go so wrong?
- Ready, steady …oh. Can a life coach shake me out of my pandemic-induced ennui?
- When others stay silent about the ills of British capitalism, liars like Johnson rush in
- Seven principles of effective digital navigation
- QAplomb
- Turning a Little Blue
- Are we there yet?
- Making algorithmic dog food for the content factory
- Oliver Dowden: creating our own data laws is one of the biggest prizes of Brexit
- In a climate crisis, text should be default option for communication
- No share list
- CSS Hyphenation
- Dev builds perfect note-taking system which only stores info about building note-taking systems
- Redesign: Everything Broke
- The smartest 1-2%
- 123. Constructing the Golem
- A People’s Architecture
- No Social Media Club
- Together in Electric Dreams
- Give Us a Three-Day Weekend at the Beach, Every Week (an interview with Héctor Tejero)
- The Open-Source Software bubble that is and the blogging bubble that was
- The Strangers’ Case
- Everything Was Dreadful And Then It Was Saved: Richard King Interviews Owen Hatherley
- My cross to bear: what it means to support England in these divided times
- CSS System Colors
- Man in Black at 50: Johnny Cash’s empathy is needed more than ever
- The Labour Party website
- Gadgets have stopped working together, and it’s becoming an issue
- If Apple is the only organisation capable of defending our privacy, it really is time to worry
- On The Ball & Off To The Ballet: Pat Nevin’s The Accidental Footballer
- Mother of Perl
- Is the stereotypical image of ‘Red Wall’ residents actually accurate?
- Satanic bikers, time portals and the Fall: the story of Mark E Smith’s secret screenplay
- The Mistake of A New Laptop
- Book review: ‘Suppose a Sentence’ by Brian Dillon
- Kobo Libra H2O: Liberated from Amazon?
- An open letter to Jason and David
- England’s Fan-Owned Clubs Show that Another Football Is Possible
- SOUNDWAVE : 57 : ROEDELIUS
- Get the FLoC out
- Second Beat Songs Hey Ya!
- When the queen dies
- After the Apocalypse
- Being an Opportunist Has Worked Well for Johnson. Why Not for Starmer?
- I Was Never in The Fall
- Modern G4 Cube is Working 🧊
- Nerdy in the extreme
- Bob Pape was a beloved father and foster carer. Did ‘eat out to help out’ cost him his life?
- Fear in your ear: the unstoppable rise of the horror podcast
- “We call it RSS” — an ambitious founder raises $400M at $8b valuation
- Emoji under the hood
- Improve the readability of the content on your website
- Silence about my race kept my family apart. Could a rescue dog bring us together?
- Ditch the elevator pitch
- Newsletters
- The Guardian view on Europe by train: virtue signalling
- Nextdoor Is Quietly Replacing the Small-Town Paper
- A QAnon ‘Digital Soldier’ Marches On, Undeterred by Theory’s Unraveling
- The problem is poverty, however we label it
- Character, context and work
- The Stasi Game, by David Young – book review
- The Radicalization Of Giggle Palooza
- Next Gen Static Blogging
- In Critical Defense of Frontend Development
- On Brexit, grief and moving on
- All I want for 2021 is to see Mark Zuckerberg up in court
- Should I build the feature request from customers?
2020
- Why the Germans Do It Better by John Kampfner review – notes from a grown-up country
- The Unbearable: Toward an Antifascist Aesthetic
- Drone Music History To Be Focus Of New Book
- Poverty causes obesity. Low-income families need to be better off to eat well.
- The Truth Is Paywalled But The Lies Are Free
- The Lost History of Socialism’s DIY Computer
- JAMstack is fast only if you make it so
2019
- Tory Landslide, Progressives Split
- Reflections from the doorstep
- This Labour meltdown has been building for decades
- Twitter to decentralize… something
- Static or database? Our love of complexity
- Thoughts on the State of the Web
- WordPress funding and market dominance
- How to put an HTML page on the internet
- We’re doing it wrong: there is no ‘one perfect design’ or layout
- Boris Johnson, tough on the economic causes of Brexit? Not likely
- Writing HTML in HTML
- Against Polling
- HTML is the web
- Uber’s Path of Destruction
- Ipswich (Australia) Libraries home page
- ‘Nostalgia Serves No Purpose’: An Interview with Michel Barnier
- A report from the AMP Advisory Committee Meeting
- Structured data and Google
- Stereolab Transient Random-Noise Bursts / Mars Audiac Quintet
- «Make sure you have a good idea that can survive, even badly designed» – Interview with Erik Spiekermann, Part I
- Notes on AI Bias
- Alt-texts: The Ultimate Guide