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2022

16/05/22
A Future City From The Past
14/05/22
The Blazers have been usurped by the Blokes in cricket’s corridors of power
13/05/22
Divinely-Inspired Art: John Higgs on William Blake’s Visions of the Sublime
12/05/22
The Demise of the Mildly Dynamic Website
11/05/22
Life on the edge: Land loss on England’s east coast – a photo essay
08/05/22
‘I come to the library to keep warm’: Norfolk residents battling fuel poverty
07/05/22
The Librarians Are Not Okay
07/05/22
Action, inaction and ‘cancel culture’
07/05/22
What I learned about markdown from interviewing a bunch of people
01/05/22
On the Disappearing of Joan Vollmer Burroughs
30/04/22
👍👍 A complete failure: The story of Norwich City’s relegation from the Premier League
29/04/22
Mastodon's Eugen Rochko Talks Decentralization, Blockchain, And Grifters
28/04/22
Nature writing’s ill-defined, thriving ecosystem
28/04/22
Applied for Student Aid Online? Facebook Saw You
28/04/22
The Flanders phenomenon: how Belgian buildings went from joke to genius
28/04/22
What is it Like to Be a Blind Writer Writing for Sighted Readers?
28/04/22
That Wasn’t Right, Mark: When Fat White Family Met The Fall
28/04/22
Klaus Schulze Has Died, Aged 74
28/04/22
It Took The Night To Believe: Greg “The Lord” Anderson Interviewed
28/04/22
Mastodon and the future of Twitter
26/04/22
So Elon Musk Bought Twitter
24/04/22
So, About That Bug Fucking: A Conversation with Chris Panatier
24/04/22
Designing Better Navigation With Navigation Queries
23/04/22
Childish Font Sizes
21/04/22
The Future of the Web Is Marketing Copy Generated by Algorithms
20/04/22
The Digital Age is Destroying Us
19/04/22
Have We Forgotten How to Read Critically?
19/04/22
How Darwin Influenced Marx and Engels
18/04/22
Meet the Socialist Librarian Running for President of the American Library Association
18/04/22
Drabinski Wins 2023–2024 ALA Presidency
16/04/22
The Meaning of Slaughterhouse-Five, 50 Years Later
14/04/22
The Side Effects of Tailored Digital Experiences
12/04/22
Farewell to Nakagin Tower
11/04/22
Kurt Vonnegut’s Socialism From Outer Space
10/04/22
Bad news
03/04/22
Optimising Largest Contentful Paint
01/04/22
The Cult of the Imperfect
01/04/22
Peak Content is an entropic force
31/03/22
That big sliding banner? Yeah, it’s rubbish
29/03/22
Write HTML, the HTML Way (Not the XHTML Way)
20/03/22
Steve Albini – Didn’t We Deserve a Look at You the Way You Really Are
12/03/22
Unfortunate, But Not Surprising: Court Blocks Maryland’s Library eBook Law
12/03/22
The Meaning of Marcelo Bielsa
15/02/22
Canned web development
08/02/22
Digital detox tourism: Practices of analogization
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
06/02/22
Why I used to build websites
06/02/22
Strategic impotence
05/02/22
Designing books for readers with early‑stage Alzheimer’s disease
05/02/22
Levelling Up the United Kingdom: executive summary
29/01/22
Newsletter No. 25: ‘Painting the Forth Bridge’
29/01/22
Can Matt Mullenweg save the internet?
12/01/22
Revisiting why hyperlinks are blue
01/01/22
Yesterday, I finished reading Selected Ambient Works Volume II by Marc Weidenbaum…

2021

29/12/21
Add a Service Worker to Your Site
07/12/21
This distraction-free editor is the best writing tool you aren’t using
05/12/21
Choosing [the] least CO2-emitting form of digital communication
16/11/21
Your CSS is an interface
02/11/21
Adrian Chiles Does Not Miss
31/10/21
Matthew Le Tissier and the Cosmic Right
26/10/21
Less of “Less”
24/10/21
Chatbots and the cult of technology
16/10/21
So Long, Firefox
10/10/21
The Bright Magic Podcast (Public Service Broadcasting on Berlin)
10/10/21
Britain’s Mental Health Crisis Isn’t an Accident – It’s a Political Choice
10/10/21
A thrilling encounter on the most inauspicious of days
09/10/21
Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech
09/10/21
The internet was built for connection – how did it go so wrong?
09/10/21
Ready, steady …oh. Can a life coach shake me out of my pandemic-induced ennui?
09/10/21
When others stay silent about the ills of British capitalism, liars like Johnson rush in
09/10/21
Seven principles of effective digital navigation
07/10/21
QAplomb
25/09/21
Turning a Little Blue
04/09/21
Are we there yet?
31/08/21
Making algorithmic dog food for the content factory
26/08/21
Oliver Dowden: creating our own data laws is one of the biggest prizes of Brexit
22/08/21
In a climate crisis, text should be default option for communication
21/08/21
No share list
19/08/21
CSS Hyphenation
19/08/21
Dev builds perfect note-taking system which only stores info about building note-taking systems
11/08/21
Redesign: Everything Broke
10/08/21
The smartest 1-2%
04/08/21
123. Constructing the Golem
25/07/21
A People’s Architecture
18/07/21
No Social Media Club
11/07/21
Together in Electric Dreams
11/07/21
Give Us a Three-Day Weekend at the Beach, Every Week (an interview with Héctor Tejero)
19/06/21
The Open-Source Software bubble that is and the blogging bubble that was
19/06/21
The Strangers’ Case
19/06/21
Everything Was Dreadful And Then It Was Saved: Richard King Interviews Owen Hatherley
12/06/21
My cross to bear: what it means to support England in these divided times
05/06/21
CSS System Colors
01/06/21
Man in Black at 50: Johnny Cash’s empathy is needed more than ever
31/05/21
The Labour Party website
30/05/21
Gadgets have stopped working together, and it’s becoming an issue
22/05/21
If Apple is the only organisation capable of defending our privacy, it really is time to worry
22/05/21
On The Ball & Off To The Ballet: Pat Nevin’s The Accidental Footballer
19/05/21
Mother of Perl
17/05/21
Is the stereotypical image of ‘Red Wall’ residents actually accurate?
14/05/21
Satanic bikers, time portals and the Fall: the story of Mark E Smith’s secret screenplay
10/05/21
The Mistake of A New Laptop
08/05/21
Book review: ‘Suppose a Sentence’ by Brian Dillon
08/05/21
Kobo Libra H2O: Liberated from Amazon?
03/05/21
An open letter to Jason and David
03/05/21
England’s Fan-Owned Clubs Show that Another Football Is Possible
02/05/21
SOUNDWAVE : 57 : ROEDELIUS
25/04/21
Get the FLoC out
17/04/21
Second Beat Songs Hey Ya!
16/04/21
When the queen dies
06/04/21
After the Apocalypse
04/04/21
Being an Opportunist Has Worked Well for Johnson. Why Not for Starmer?
02/04/21
I Was Never in The Fall
02/04/21
Modern G4 Cube is Working 🧊
30/03/21
Nerdy in the extreme
30/03/21
Bob Pape was a beloved father and foster carer. Did ‘eat out to help out’ cost him his life?
29/03/21
Fear in your ear: the unstoppable rise of the horror podcast
25/03/21
“We call it RSS” — an ambitious founder raises $400M at $8b valuation
24/03/21
Emoji under the hood
14/03/21
Improve the readability of the content on your website
07/03/21
Silence about my race kept my family apart. Could a rescue dog bring us together?
03/03/21
Ditch the elevator pitch
14/02/21
Newsletters
02/02/21
The Guardian view on Europe by train: virtue signalling
02/02/21
Nextdoor Is Quietly Replacing the Small-Town Paper
23/01/21
A QAnon ‘Digital Soldier’ Marches On, Undeterred by Theory’s Unraveling
21/01/21
The problem is poverty, however we label it
20/01/21
Character, context and work
19/01/21
The Stasi Game, by David Young – book review
15/01/21
The Radicalization Of Giggle Palooza
13/01/21
Next Gen Static Blogging
12/01/21
In Critical Defense of Frontend Development
03/01/21
On Brexit, grief and moving on
02/01/21
All I want for 2021 is to see Mark Zuckerberg up in court
02/01/21
Should I build the feature request from customers?

2020

23/08/20
Why the Germans Do It Better by John Kampfner review – notes from a grown-up country
17/08/20
The Unbearable: Toward an Antifascist Aesthetic
14/08/20
Drone Music History To Be Focus Of New Book
09/08/20
Poverty causes obesity. Low-income families need to be better off to eat well.
08/08/20
The Truth Is Paywalled But The Lies Are Free
04/08/20
The Lost History of Socialism’s DIY Computer
14/06/20
JAMstack is fast only if you make it so

2019

15/12/19
Tory Landslide, Progressives Split
14/12/19
Reflections from the doorstep
14/12/19
This Labour meltdown has been building for decades
14/12/19
Twitter to decentralize… something
07/12/19
Static or database? Our love of complexity
21/09/19
Thoughts on the State of the Web
21/09/19
WordPress funding and market dominance
07/09/19
How to put an HTML page on the internet
30/08/19
We’re doing it wrong: there is no ‘one perfect design’ or layout
26/07/19
Boris Johnson, tough on the economic causes of Brexit? Not likely
27/06/19
Writing HTML in HTML
23/06/19
Against Polling
22/06/19
HTML is the web
04/06/19
Uber’s Path of Destruction
04/06/19
Ipswich (Australia) Libraries home page
01/06/19
‘Nostalgia Serves No Purpose’: An Interview with Michel Barnier
24/05/19
A report from the AMP Advisory Committee Meeting
23/05/19
Structured data and Google
21/05/19
Stereolab Transient Random-Noise Bursts / Mars Audiac Quintet
20/05/19
«Make sure you have a good idea that can survive, even badly designed» – Interview with Erik Spiekermann, Part I
20/05/19
Notes on AI Bias
20/05/19
Alt-texts: The Ultimate Guide