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2022
24/09/22
Building the main navigation for a website (
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03/09/22
CSS Classes considered harmful (
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03/09/22
Arts funding in England is a thin gruel that organisations are forced to beg for (
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06/08/22
Jah Wobble: In Conversation On Get Carter At 50 (
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30/07/22
Mick Lynch Is Tired of Workers Getting Screwed (
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20/07/22
Pathologically boring men (and girlbosses) (
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20/07/22
The Northern Roots of Modernist Sci-Fi (
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17/07/22
Handling Long Words and URLs (Forcing Breaks, Hyphenation, Ellipsis, etc) (
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14/07/22
Minimal Social Markup (
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03/07/22
Some thoughts about blogging and “style” (
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01/07/22
You couldn’t write a sentence this bad IF YOU TRIED. (
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01/07/22
Striking workers are providing the opposition that Britain desperately needs (
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26/06/22
Crossed Rails (
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26/06/22
Write HTML Right (
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14/06/22
The smallest CSS (
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11/06/22
On Ido and Far-Right Subversion (
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02/06/22
Hatpin through the Brain (
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28/05/22
Atlanta Apple Store Employees Drop Bid for Union Vote Next Week (
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22/05/22
The greasy spoon chronicles: a day in the life of the Hope Workers Cafe (
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19/05/22
W3C TAG Ethical Web Principles (
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16/05/22
A Future City From The Past (
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14/05/22
The Blazers have been usurped by the Blokes in cricket’s corridors of power (
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13/05/22
Divinely-Inspired Art: John Higgs on William Blake’s Visions of the Sublime (
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12/05/22
The Demise of the Mildly Dynamic Website (
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11/05/22
Life on the edge: Land loss on England’s east coast – a photo essay (
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08/05/22
‘I come to the library to keep warm’: Norfolk residents battling fuel poverty (
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07/05/22
The Librarians Are Not Okay (
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07/05/22
Action, inaction and ‘cancel culture’ (
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07/05/22
What I learned about markdown from interviewing a bunch of people (
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01/05/22
On the Disappearing of Joan Vollmer Burroughs (
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30/04/22
👍👍 A complete failure: The story of Norwich City’s relegation from the Premier League (
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29/04/22
Mastodon's Eugen Rochko Talks Decentralization, Blockchain, And Grifters (
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28/04/22
Nature writing’s ill-defined, thriving ecosystem (
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28/04/22
Applied for Student Aid Online? Facebook Saw You (
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28/04/22
The Flanders phenomenon: how Belgian buildings went from joke to genius (
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28/04/22
What is it Like to Be a Blind Writer Writing for Sighted Readers? (
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28/04/22
That Wasn’t Right, Mark: When Fat White Family Met The Fall (
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28/04/22
Klaus Schulze Has Died, Aged 74 (
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28/04/22
It Took The Night To Believe: Greg “The Lord” Anderson Interviewed (
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28/04/22
Mastodon and the future of Twitter (
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26/04/22
So Elon Musk Bought Twitter (
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24/04/22
So, About That Bug Fucking: A Conversation with Chris Panatier (
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24/04/22
Designing Better Navigation With Navigation Queries (
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23/04/22
Childish Font Sizes (
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21/04/22
The Future of the Web Is Marketing Copy Generated by Algorithms (
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20/04/22
The Digital Age is Destroying Us (
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19/04/22
Have We Forgotten How to Read Critically? (
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19/04/22
How Darwin Influenced Marx and Engels (
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18/04/22
Meet the Socialist Librarian Running for President of the American Library Association (
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18/04/22
Drabinski Wins 2023–2024 ALA Presidency (
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16/04/22
The Meaning of Slaughterhouse-Five, 50 Years Later (
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14/04/22
The Side Effects of Tailored Digital Experiences (
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12/04/22
Farewell to Nakagin Tower (
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11/04/22
Kurt Vonnegut’s Socialism From Outer Space (
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10/04/22
Bad news (
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03/04/22
Optimising Largest Contentful Paint (
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01/04/22
The Cult of the Imperfect (
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01/04/22
Peak Content is an entropic force (
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31/03/22
That big sliding banner? Yeah, it’s rubbish (
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29/03/22
Write HTML, the HTML Way (Not the XHTML Way) (
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20/03/22
Steve Albini – Didn’t We Deserve a Look at You the Way You Really Are (
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12/03/22
Unfortunate, But Not Surprising: Court Blocks Maryland’s Library eBook Law (
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12/03/22
The Meaning of Marcelo Bielsa (
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15/02/22
Canned web development (
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08/02/22
Digital detox tourism: Practices of analogization (
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07/02/22
Mark Zuckerberg and team consider shutting down Facebook and Instagram in Europe if Meta can not process Europeans’ data on US servers (
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06/02/22
Why I used to build websites (
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06/02/22
Strategic impotence (
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05/02/22
Designing books for readers with early‑stage Alzheimer’s disease (
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05/02/22
Levelling Up the United Kingdom: executive summary (
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29/01/22
Newsletter No. 25: ‘Painting the Forth Bridge’ (
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29/01/22
Can Matt Mullenweg save the internet? (
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12/01/22
Revisiting why hyperlinks are blue (
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01/01/22
Yesterday, I finished reading Selected Ambient Works Volume II by Marc Weidenbaum… (
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2021
29/12/21
Add a Service Worker to Your Site (
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07/12/21
This distraction-free editor is the best writing tool you aren’t using (
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05/12/21
Choosing [the] least CO2-emitting form of digital communication (
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16/11/21
Your CSS is an interface (
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02/11/21
Adrian Chiles Does Not Miss (
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31/10/21
Matthew Le Tissier and the Cosmic Right (
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26/10/21
Less of “Less” (
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24/10/21
Chatbots and the cult of technology (
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16/10/21
So Long, Firefox (
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10/10/21
The Bright Magic Podcast (Public Service Broadcasting on Berlin) (
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10/10/21
Britain’s Mental Health Crisis Isn’t an Accident – It’s a Political Choice (
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10/10/21
A thrilling encounter on the most inauspicious of days (
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09/10/21
Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech (
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09/10/21
The internet was built for connection – how did it go so wrong? (
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09/10/21
Ready, steady …oh. Can a life coach shake me out of my pandemic-induced ennui? (
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09/10/21
When others stay silent about the ills of British capitalism, liars like Johnson rush in (
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09/10/21
Seven principles of effective digital navigation (
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07/10/21
QAplomb (
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25/09/21
Turning a Little Blue (
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04/09/21
Are we there yet? (
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31/08/21
Making algorithmic dog food for the content factory (
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26/08/21
Oliver Dowden: creating our own data laws is one of the biggest prizes of Brexit (
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22/08/21
In a climate crisis, text should be default option for communication (
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21/08/21
No share list (
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19/08/21
CSS Hyphenation (
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19/08/21
Dev builds perfect note-taking system which only stores info about building note-taking systems (
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11/08/21
Redesign: Everything Broke (
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10/08/21
The smartest 1-2% (
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04/08/21
123. Constructing the Golem (
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25/07/21
A People’s Architecture (
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18/07/21
No Social Media Club (
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11/07/21
Together in Electric Dreams (
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11/07/21
Give Us a Three-Day Weekend at the Beach, Every Week (an interview with Héctor Tejero) (
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19/06/21
The Open-Source Software bubble that is and the blogging bubble that was (
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19/06/21
The Strangers’ Case (
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19/06/21
Everything Was Dreadful And Then It Was Saved: Richard King Interviews Owen Hatherley (
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12/06/21
My cross to bear: what it means to support England in these divided times (
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05/06/21
CSS System Colors (
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01/06/21
Man in Black at 50: Johnny Cash’s empathy is needed more than ever (
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31/05/21
The Labour Party website (
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30/05/21
Gadgets have stopped working together, and it’s becoming an issue (
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22/05/21
If Apple is the only organisation capable of defending our privacy, it really is time to worry (
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22/05/21
On The Ball & Off To The Ballet: Pat Nevin’s The Accidental Footballer (
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19/05/21
Mother of Perl (
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17/05/21
Is the stereotypical image of ‘Red Wall’ residents actually accurate? (
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14/05/21
Satanic bikers, time portals and the Fall: the story of Mark E Smith’s secret screenplay (
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10/05/21
The Mistake of A New Laptop (
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08/05/21
Book review: ‘Suppose a Sentence’ by Brian Dillon (
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08/05/21
Kobo Libra H2O: Liberated from Amazon? (
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03/05/21
An open letter to Jason and David (
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03/05/21
England’s Fan-Owned Clubs Show that Another Football Is Possible (
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02/05/21
SOUNDWAVE : 57 : ROEDELIUS (
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25/04/21
Get the FLoC out (
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17/04/21
Second Beat Songs Hey Ya! (
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16/04/21
When the queen dies (
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06/04/21
After the Apocalypse (
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04/04/21
Being an Opportunist Has Worked Well for Johnson. Why Not for Starmer? (
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02/04/21
I Was Never in The Fall (
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02/04/21
Modern G4 Cube is Working 🧊 (
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30/03/21
Nerdy in the extreme (
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30/03/21
Bob Pape was a beloved father and foster carer. Did ‘eat out to help out’ cost him his life? (
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29/03/21
Fear in your ear: the unstoppable rise of the horror podcast (
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25/03/21
“We call it RSS” — an ambitious founder raises $400M at $8b valuation (
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24/03/21
Emoji under the hood (
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14/03/21
Improve the readability of the content on your website (
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07/03/21
Silence about my race kept my family apart. Could a rescue dog bring us together? (
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03/03/21
Ditch the elevator pitch (
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14/02/21
Newsletters (
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02/02/21
The Guardian view on Europe by train: virtue signalling (
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02/02/21
Nextdoor Is Quietly Replacing the Small-Town Paper (
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23/01/21
A QAnon ‘Digital Soldier’ Marches On, Undeterred by Theory’s Unraveling (
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21/01/21
The problem is poverty, however we label it (
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20/01/21
Character, context and work (
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19/01/21
The Stasi Game, by David Young – book review (
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15/01/21
The Radicalization Of Giggle Palooza (
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13/01/21
Next Gen Static Blogging (
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12/01/21
In Critical Defense of Frontend Development (
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03/01/21
On Brexit, grief and moving on (
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02/01/21
All I want for 2021 is to see Mark Zuckerberg up in court (
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02/01/21
Should I build the feature request from customers? (
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2020
23/08/20
Why the Germans Do It Better by John Kampfner review – notes from a grown-up country (
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17/08/20
The Unbearable: Toward an Antifascist Aesthetic (
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14/08/20
Drone Music History To Be Focus Of New Book (
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09/08/20
Poverty causes obesity. Low-income families need to be better off to eat well. (
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08/08/20
The Truth Is Paywalled But The Lies Are Free (
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04/08/20
The Lost History of Socialism’s DIY Computer (
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14/06/20
JAMstack is fast only if you make it so (
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2019
15/12/19
Tory Landslide, Progressives Split (
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14/12/19
Reflections from the doorstep (
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14/12/19
This Labour meltdown has been building for decades (
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14/12/19
Twitter to decentralize… something (
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07/12/19
Static or database? Our love of complexity (
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21/09/19
Thoughts on the State of the Web (
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21/09/19
WordPress funding and market dominance (
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07/09/19
How to put an HTML page on the internet (
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30/08/19
We’re doing it wrong: there is no ‘one perfect design’ or layout (
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26/07/19
Boris Johnson, tough on the economic causes of Brexit? Not likely (
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27/06/19
Writing HTML in HTML (
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23/06/19
Against Polling (
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22/06/19
HTML is the web (
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04/06/19
Uber’s Path of Destruction (
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04/06/19
Ipswich (Australia) Libraries home page (
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01/06/19
‘Nostalgia Serves No Purpose’: An Interview with Michel Barnier (
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24/05/19
A report from the AMP Advisory Committee Meeting (
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23/05/19
Structured data and Google (
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21/05/19
Stereolab Transient Random-Noise Bursts / Mars Audiac Quintet (
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20/05/19
«Make sure you have a good idea that can survive, even badly designed» – Interview with Erik Spiekermann, Part I (
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20/05/19
Notes on AI Bias (
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20/05/19
Alt-texts: The Ultimate Guide (
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