Links

2022

• Are personal Mastodon instances bad for discovery? 27/11/22
• Programming is a Pop Culture 26/11/22
• The Age of Social Media Is Ending 23/11/22
• Does Jeremy Corbyn Need the Labour Party? 22/11/22
• I don't want to go back to social media 22/11/22
• Picture perfect images with the modern img element 21/11/22
• Oh! Brother: MARCIA SCHOFIELD — Anecdotes and Antidotes in B# 19/11/22
• ‘Who remembers proper binmen?’ The nostalgia memes that help explain Britain today 17/11/22
• In praise of conventional thinking 16/11/22
• Social Media Is Dead 12/11/22
• Big Tech’s Algorithms Are Built With Invisible Labor 07/11/22
• Minimal Dark Mode 05/11/22
• Programming Portals 03/11/22
• Building the main navigation for a website 24/09/22
• CSS Classes considered harmful 03/09/22
• Arts funding in England is a thin gruel that organisations are forced to beg for 03/09/22
• Jah Wobble: In Conversation On Get Carter At 50 06/08/22
• Mick Lynch Is Tired of Workers Getting Screwed 30/07/22
• Pathologically boring men (and girlbosses) 20/07/22
• The Northern Roots of Modernist Sci-Fi 20/07/22
• Handling Long Words and URLs (Forcing Breaks, Hyphenation, Ellipsis, etc) 17/07/22
• Minimal Social Markup 14/07/22
• Some thoughts about blogging and “style” 03/07/22
• You couldn’t write a sentence this bad IF YOU TRIED. 01/07/22
• Striking workers are providing the opposition that Britain desperately needs 01/07/22
• Crossed Rails 26/06/22
• Write HTML Right 26/06/22
• The smallest CSS 14/06/22
• On Ido and Far-Right Subversion 11/06/22
• Hatpin through the Brain 02/06/22
• Atlanta Apple Store Employees Drop Bid for Union Vote Next Week 28/05/22
• The greasy spoon chronicles: a day in the life of the Hope Workers Cafe 22/05/22
• W3C TAG Ethical Web Principles 19/05/22
• A Future City From The Past 16/05/22
• The Blazers have been usurped by the Blokes in cricket’s corridors of power 14/05/22
• Divinely-Inspired Art: John Higgs on William Blake’s Visions of the Sublime 13/05/22
• The Demise of the Mildly Dynamic Website 12/05/22
• Life on the edge: Land loss on England’s east coast – a photo essay 11/05/22
• ‘I come to the library to keep warm’: Norfolk residents battling fuel poverty 08/05/22
• 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 07/05/22
• On the Disappearing of Joan Vollmer Burroughs 01/05/22
• 👍👍 A complete failure: The story of Norwich City’s relegation from the Premier League 30/04/22
• Mastodon's Eugen Rochko Talks Decentralization, Blockchain, And Grifters 29/04/22
• 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 28/04/22
• So Elon Musk Bought Twitter 26/04/22
• So, About That Bug Fucking: A Conversation with Chris Panatier 24/04/22
• Designing Better Navigation With Navigation Queries 24/04/22
• Childish Font Sizes 23/04/22
• The Future of the Web Is Marketing Copy Generated by Algorithms 21/04/22
• The Digital Age is Destroying Us 20/04/22
• Have We Forgotten How to Read Critically? 19/04/22
• How Darwin Influenced Marx and Engels 19/04/22
• Meet the Socialist Librarian Running for President of the American Library Association 18/04/22
• Drabinski Wins 2023–2024 ALA Presidency 18/04/22
• The Meaning of Slaughterhouse-Five, 50 Years Later 16/04/22
• The Side Effects of Tailored Digital Experiences 14/04/22
• Farewell to Nakagin Tower 12/04/22
• Kurt Vonnegut’s Socialism From Outer Space 11/04/22
• Bad news 10/04/22
• Optimising Largest Contentful Paint 03/04/22
• The Cult of the Imperfect 01/04/22
• Peak Content is an entropic force 01/04/22
• That big sliding banner? Yeah, it’s rubbish 31/03/22
• Write HTML, the HTML Way (Not the XHTML Way) 29/03/22
• Steve Albini – Didn’t We Deserve a Look at You the Way You Really Are 20/03/22
• Unfortunate, But Not Surprising: Court Blocks Maryland’s Library eBook Law 12/03/22
• The Meaning of Marcelo Bielsa 12/03/22
• Canned web development 15/02/22
• Digital detox tourism: Practices of analogization 08/02/22
• Mark Zuckerberg and team consider shutting down Facebook and Instagram in Europe if Meta can not process Europeans’ data on US servers 07/02/22
• Why I used to build websites 06/02/22
• Strategic impotence 06/02/22
• Designing books for readers with early‑stage Alzheimer’s disease 05/02/22
• Levelling Up the United Kingdom: executive summary 05/02/22
• Newsletter No. 25: ‘Painting the Forth Bridge’ 29/01/22
• Can Matt Mullenweg save the internet? 29/01/22
• Revisiting why hyperlinks are blue 12/01/22
• Yesterday, I finished reading Selected Ambient Works Volume II by Marc Weidenbaum… 01/01/22

2021

• Add a Service Worker to Your Site 29/12/21
• This distraction-free editor is the best writing tool you aren’t using 07/12/21
• Choosing [the] least CO2-emitting form of digital communication 05/12/21
• Your CSS is an interface 16/11/21
• Adrian Chiles Does Not Miss 02/11/21
• Matthew Le Tissier and the Cosmic Right 31/10/21
• Less of “Less” 26/10/21
• Chatbots and the cult of technology 24/10/21
• So Long, Firefox 16/10/21
• 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 10/10/21
• 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 09/10/21
• QAplomb 07/10/21
• Turning a Little Blue 25/09/21
• Are we there yet? 04/09/21
• Making algorithmic dog food for the content factory 31/08/21
• Oliver Dowden: creating our own data laws is one of the biggest prizes of Brexit 26/08/21
• In a climate crisis, text should be default option for communication 22/08/21
• No share list 21/08/21
• CSS Hyphenation 19/08/21
• Dev builds perfect note-taking system which only stores info about building note-taking systems 19/08/21
• Redesign: Everything Broke 11/08/21
• The smartest 1-2% 10/08/21
• 123. Constructing the Golem 04/08/21
• A People’s Architecture 25/07/21
• No Social Media Club 18/07/21
• Together in Electric Dreams 11/07/21
• Give Us a Three-Day Weekend at the Beach, Every Week (an interview with Héctor Tejero) 11/07/21
• 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 19/06/21
• My cross to bear: what it means to support England in these divided times 12/06/21
• CSS System Colors 05/06/21
• Man in Black at 50: Johnny Cash’s empathy is needed more than ever 01/06/21
• The Labour Party website 31/05/21
• Gadgets have stopped working together, and it’s becoming an issue 30/05/21
• 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 22/05/21
• Mother of Perl 19/05/21
• Is the stereotypical image of ‘Red Wall’ residents actually accurate? 17/05/21
• Satanic bikers, time portals and the Fall: the story of Mark E Smith’s secret screenplay 14/05/21
• The Mistake of A New Laptop 10/05/21
• Book review: ‘Suppose a Sentence’ by Brian Dillon 08/05/21
• Kobo Libra H2O: Liberated from Amazon? 08/05/21
• An open letter to Jason and David 03/05/21
• England’s Fan-Owned Clubs Show that Another Football Is Possible 03/05/21
• SOUNDWAVE : 57 : ROEDELIUS 02/05/21
• Get the FLoC out 25/04/21
• Second Beat Songs Hey Ya! 17/04/21
• When the queen dies 16/04/21
• After the Apocalypse 06/04/21
• Being an Opportunist Has Worked Well for Johnson. Why Not for Starmer? 04/04/21
• I Was Never in The Fall 02/04/21
• Modern G4 Cube is Working 🧊 02/04/21
• 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? 30/03/21
• Fear in your ear: the unstoppable rise of the horror podcast 29/03/21
• “We call it RSS” — an ambitious founder raises $400M at $8b valuation 25/03/21
• Emoji under the hood 24/03/21
• Improve the readability of the content on your website 14/03/21
• Silence about my race kept my family apart. Could a rescue dog bring us together? 07/03/21
• Ditch the elevator pitch 03/03/21
• Newsletters 14/02/21
• The Guardian view on Europe by train: virtue signalling 02/02/21
• Nextdoor Is Quietly Replacing the Small-Town Paper 02/02/21
• A QAnon ‘Digital Soldier’ Marches On, Undeterred by Theory’s Unraveling 23/01/21
• The problem is poverty, however we label it 21/01/21
• Character, context and work 20/01/21
• The Stasi Game, by David Young – book review 19/01/21
• The Radicalization Of Giggle Palooza 15/01/21
• Next Gen Static Blogging 13/01/21
• In Critical Defense of Frontend Development 12/01/21
• On Brexit, grief and moving on 03/01/21
• All I want for 2021 is to see Mark Zuckerberg up in court 02/01/21
• Should I build the feature request from customers? 02/01/21

2020

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

2019

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