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- ITFC v Shrewsbury 18 Mar 2023 –
- Zola experiments part 1 –
- Beware Hunt’s hype. There’s more poverty ahead and his budget did nothing to change that –
- Zola? –
- Fall Friday 2023-03-17 –
- The best form is no form –
- FLIC BOT –
- gandi.net is more expensive –
- Some notes on moving from Jekyll to either Kirby or WordPress –
- WordPress bound –
- It is 2009 on Twitter –
- I do want to go back to social media –
- Netlify CMS to Become Decap CMS: What You Need to Know –
- Fall Friday 2023-02-24 –
- Fandom is fun!!!! –
- Re; Reading social streams in feed reader –
- Reply to https://www.jayeless.net/2023/02/reply-to-leon-about-webmentions.html –
- Reply to https://www.jayeless.net/2023/02/webmentions-look-good-again-now.html –
- Webmentions can help create small networks around websites rather than social media –
- Reply to https://www.jayeless.net/2023/02/current-indieweb-status.html –
- Current indieweb status –
- Grrr crossposting to Mastodon –
- When to listen to LPs –
- No-one ever said indieweb was gonna be easy –
- Fall Friday 2023-02-17 –
- Rats, mould, damp: one woman’s story reveals the ugly truth about the UK’s biggest housing association –
- A little RSS badge as a prize –
- 50 days of Krautrock –
- Validate yer feeds –
- The best thing about Github is correcting blog post typos –
- Sending webmentions is hard –
- Reading your social media stream in an RSS reader –
- Provide Blog Metadata via JSON-LD –
- Fall Friday 2023-02-10 –
- What is simple web design? –
- Screen: twice as big. Information: 1/4 of original. –
- Reply to: https://kandr3s.co/notes/2023-02-06-ycjwj –
- Flat navigation menus –
- The disinformation about the disinformation –
- Goodbye Mastodon, Hello RSS. –
- Trailing slashes –
- Bridgy crossposting –
- Going with the grain –
- My CSS is an absolute mess –
- Fall Friday 2023-02-03 –
- On the house of all –
- ‘It’s a homage to what Mark E Smith taught us’: ex-Fall members House of All deny exploiting band’s legacy –
- Changing a font weight from 600 to normal –
- Modern Health, frameworks, performance, and harm –
- “Make It Go Woomph!” New Order's Low-Life Revisited –
- Reading Tristram Shandy in an Age of Distraction –
- What an indieweb would look like –
- RRW is now a content farm –
- Riffing and blogging –
- Fall Friday 2023-01-27 –
- The moral of the machines taking over –
- Off His Royal Tits –
- When humans write for machines –
- The End of Writing –
- Spotify to cut 600 jobs after CEO admits to expanding too quickly –
- How to Review a Web Site –
- Netlify integrations – webmentions –
- Butterfly keyboards are rubbish –
- RSS to Mastodon notes –
- Choosing a headless CMS for my simple static blog –
- Current stream status –
- Fall Friday 2023-01-20 –
- Headless and invisible CMSs –
- Prose as possible minimal CMS –
- Clearer what Twitter is –
- Sending your First Webmention from Scratch –
- Testing webmentions. Again. –
- Whenever I get a notification for an iOS update I think it’s the last one my iPhone SE will get –
- Fall Friday 2023-01-13 –
- A Marxist View of Tolkien’s Middle Earth –
- New CMS –
- DNS, DNS –
- 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 –
- Welcoming Blue Action to the middle of the North Stand –
- Melie looking up at the camera –
- Redoing webmentions –
- Weekend 2023-01 –
- Fall Friday 2023-01-06 –
- A global recession may be looming, but there is a way out of this rut –
- On Running a Mastodon Instance –
- Tailoring syndication to social platforms –
- The Guardian API is down –
- Quitting Twitter –
- Why I quit Twitter… a decade ago –
- Chartbook #184 – Nostalgia for decline in deconvergent Britain –
- Benoit Symposium: Writers in the DPRK: The Invisible Stars –
- Standard eBooks –
- The year of no Godaddy –
- Make 2023 the year you help destroy Twitter –
- Brands and bands POSSEing –
- Change that pw –
- It’d be great if NetNewsWire allowed you to follow your Mastodon feed –
- Roseate –
- micro.blog replies –
- Reply to How do people integrate their long form blogging with their micro blogging? –
- What email provider should I use? –
- They don’t only take our labor. –
- The Arc browser sounds interesting, but I can’t tell how it’ll make its money –
- Can Just Stop Oil make the case for protest? –
- The ethics of syndicating comments using WebMentions –
- Webmentions and privacy –
- POSSE for when it falls over –
- Lab majority 2024 –
- Building dynamic static sites –
- Are personal Mastodon instances bad for discovery? –
- Mastodon should remove follower and following counts to stop it becoming like Twitter –
- The left and the fediverse –
- 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# –
- No HTML in IFTTT to Mastodon posts? –
- ‘Who remembers proper binmen?’ The nostalgia memes that help explain Britain today –
- In praise of conventional thinking –
- Use Brid.gy to post to Mastodon from your website –
- Men and things –
- Some thoughts on the fediverse and Mastodon –
- Social Media Is Dead –
- Follower counts on Mastodon –
- Implementing comments without javascript on a static, Jekyll-powered site using Welcomments –
- Static time wasters –
- Big Tech’s Algorithms Are Built With Invisible Labor –
- Fixing comments –
- Minimal Dark Mode –
- To toot or not to toot –
- Programming Portals –
- Jekyll 5 on the horizon –
- TIL: Netlify stops processing redirect rules as soon as one is applied –
- On leave –
- Fostodon test –
- Minimalism as narcissism –
- What is website minimalism? –
- Building the main navigation for a website –
- Two things I learned by validating my HTML again –
- UK’s relegation to League One –
- Bookmark managers –
- Don’t make your body text font-weight light –
- Mourning through boredom –
- Creating three international Skinny Guardian editions –
- Hero images just get in the way –
- Removing royal stories from Skinny Guardian –
- CSS Classes considered harmful –
- Arts funding in England is a thin gruel that organisations are forced to beg for –
- Site on a Nokia 225 –
- (Re)introducing Skinny Guardian, a fast, minimal version of The Guardian –
- Pick an ownership model –
- Real mobile design –
- Using Windows –
- Twitter and page position –
- Level six –
- Closed Twitter open site –
- 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 –
- 40° –
- Handling Long Words and URLs (Forcing Breaks, Hyphenation, Ellipsis, etc) –
- About to publish –
- Making RSS readable in a browser –
- Minimal Social Markup –
- Hiding search boxes –
- My text editors –
- Some thoughts about blogging and “style” –
- Six social media commenting principles, how they don’t work and an alternative broadcast system –
- 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 –
- Bunny Fonts: an apparently GDPR-compliant, privacy-respecting alternative to Google Fonts –
- Rediscovering 500 words –
- Tinkering with your MVP website until it looks like mine –
- The smallest CSS –
- On Ido and Far-Right Subversion –
- Time to move on from Jekyll –
- Hatpin through the Brain –
- Atlanta Apple Store Employees Drop Bid for Union Vote Next Week –
- My last day at Suffolk Libraries –
- Hero image and video-addicted uni websites don’t optimise, so they’re really slow –
- The greasy spoon chronicles: a day in the life of the Hope Workers Cafe –
- Ipswich is very ordinary –
- 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 –
- Some notes on using clamp and vw to set font size –
- Bad Twitter ideas –
- Mastodon's Eugen Rochko Talks Decentralization, Blockchain, And Grifters –
- GB News on my Tv –
- Nature writing’s ill-defined, thriving ecosystem –
- Applied for Student Aid Online? Facebook Saw You –
- Sorry! –
- 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 –
- WP block editor –
- So Elon Musk Bought Twitter –
- Going Postal –
- 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? –
- Applying link taxonomy to articles –
- How Darwin Influenced Marx and Engels –
- You don’t see many cats on leads –
- Twitter should move to a subscription model –
- Meet the Socialist Librarian Running for President of the American Library Association –
- Drabinski Wins 2023–2024 ALA Presidency –
- NetNewsWire themes –
- The Meaning of Slaughterhouse-Five, 50 Years Later –
- The Side Effects of Tailored Digital Experiences –
- Page Speed live edits –
- Farewell to Nakagin Tower –
- Kurt Vonnegut’s Socialism From Outer Space –
- Bad news –
- 9 April is CSS Naked Day –
- Make your website quicker and improve UX by not placing an image at the top of the home page –
- Optimising Largest Contentful Paint –
- Phil Gyford does webmentions –
- The Cult of the Imperfect –
- Peak Content is an entropic force –
- That big sliding banner? Yeah, it’s rubbish –
- YouTube will ruin your PageSpeed score –
- Write HTML, the HTML Way (Not the XHTML Way) –
- Oh yeah? Oh brother! –
- Logic on static sites (and the advantages of failing catastrophically but knowably) –
- Steve Albini – Didn’t We Deserve a Look at You the Way You Really Are –
- Antialising type guilt –
- Shoulder Pads is All Gates Open sped up –
- Unfortunate, But Not Surprising: Court Blocks Maryland’s Library eBook Law –
- The Meaning of Marcelo Bielsa –
- A barebones Underscores WordPress child theme –
- Wordle 246 3/6 –
- Wordle 243 3/6 –
- Canned web development –
- Wordle 239 3/6 –
- Propagation –
- Wordle 238 4/6 –
- Wordle 237 4/6 –
- Rockwell Kent Moby Dick illustrations –
- Digital detox tourism: Practices of analogization –
- Wordle 234 5/6 –
- Mark Zuckerberg and team consider shutting down Facebook and Instagram in Europe if Meta can not process Europeans’ data on US servers –
- Wordle 233 5/6 –
- Why I used to build websites –
- Strategic impotence –
- Wordle 232 3/6 –
- Pocket now requires a Firefox account –
- Designing books for readers with early‑stage Alzheimer’s disease –
- Levelling Up the United Kingdom: executive summary –
- Wordle 231 4/6 –
- Wordle 230 2/6 –
- Wordle 229 4/6 –
- Wordle 228 3/6 –
- Wordle 227 4/6 –
- Wordle 226 4/6 –
- TweetDelete deletes all your old tweets –
- Wordle 225 4/6 –
- A book on the web: Sherlock Holmes and the never completed text –
- Wordle 224 4/6 –
- Newsletter No. 25: ‘Painting the Forth Bridge’ –
- Can Matt Mullenweg save the internet? –
- Do it again –
- Wordle 223 5/6 –
- Wordle 222 4/6 –
- Wordle 221 6/6 –
- Wordle 220 4/6 –
- Wordle 218 4/6 –
- Wordle 217 5/6 –
- Wordle 216 4/6 –
- The shareable, indie charm of Wordle –
- Wordle 215 6/6 –
- Wordle 211 3/6 –
- Wordle sharing –
- Revisiting why hyperlinks are blue –
- 50 –
- The only thing stopping me from using WordPress is the lack of a truly barebones, unopinionated parent theme –
- Hover states should be more distinct than non-hover states –
- Yesterday, I finished reading Selected Ambient Works Volume II by Marc Weidenbaum… –
- Imagining WordPress without themes –
- 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 –
- Four things I learned by validating my HTML –
- Post ideas for the weekend –
- Experimenting with short lines of text: the ideal width for whom? –
- Your CSS is an interface –
- Notes on line length revisited: Does recent research debunk the idea of an ideal line length? –
- Design Regression (a website about design for reading and reading-related research) –
- Staves –
- Static sites for small organisations –
- Wrong Guardian headlines –
- Adrian Chiles Does Not Miss –
- Matthew Le Tissier and the Cosmic Right –
- Neu Jekyll theme in the works –
- Strip out everything –
- Less of “Less” –
- Mademoiselle Non –
- Chatbots and the cult of technology –
- Julian Cope on Faust and Jim Kerr, and the term “Krautrock” –
- Morning Land by Faust (from Faust 1971-1974 Box Set) –
- So Long, Firefox –
- The Bright Magic Podcast (Public Service Broadcasting on Berlin) –
- Safari’s godawful tabs got me thinking about using it more –
- Britain’s Mental Health Crisis Isn’t an Accident – It’s a Political Choice –
- A thrilling encounter on the most inauspicious of days –
- Notes on marking up two navigation lists on the same HTML page –
- Changing the micro.blog feed –
- 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 –
- Notes on types of website and user navigation needs –
- Seven principles of effective digital navigation –
- You are your phone’s AdID –
- QAplomb –
- The platform is down, but my website is up –
- Notes on files and folders, and how platforms killed them –
- Turning a Little Blue –
- Measure, size, reclining –
- Automating webp production in Jekyll –
- Automating webp in Jekyll –
- Should I use… webp? –
- Graffiti at nameless folly, off Rushmere Road, Ipswich –
- Reply to “Minimal design is one thing but brutalist, raw sites are often visually jarring…” –
- Spectrums –
- Reply to bookmark of 512kb club –
- Intention not tech –
- A ridiculous greyhound contorting itself into a corner underneath a bookshelf –
- In reply to “Reply to ‘Indieweb as state of mind’” –
- My God, hasn’t Starmer said “tax wealth, not workers yet” –
- Indieweb as state of mind –
- Are we there yet? –
- Fish in the afternoon –
- How to write old-fashioned CSS –
- Making algorithmic dog food for the content factory –
- Twitter forcing 2FA –
- Applying the principle of proximity to improve your web article typography –
- Some notes on leading (or line height) on websites –
- Oliver Dowden: creating our own data laws is one of the biggest prizes of Brexit –
- Avenir b i –
- Setting responsive font sizes in CSS –
- In a climate crisis, text should be default option for communication –
- Measure article update –
- Sophie Taeuber-Arp –
- No share list –
- Ragged right English alignment –
- Notes on the design of Nabokov’s Butterflies and blogs –
- Design next steps –
- CSS Hyphenation –
- Dev builds perfect note-taking system which only stores info about building note-taking systems –
- Logos and function and delight –
- Integrating the Nord colour scheme into a Jekyll site using custom properties –
- Distance from the screen and reading –
- Google Search’s fixed header –
- Eiffel Tower –
- Redesign: Everything Broke –
- Font choice don’ts –
- Charter –
- Butter dish –
- The smartest 1-2% –
- Typeface notes –
- Toto Nsiala praying –
- Twitter logins make you use a third party account –
- 123. Constructing the Golem –
- About this Mac –
- Some notes on measure (or line width) on websites –
- ITFC season ticket –
- Facebook Container identifies all email fields as a potential risk –
- A People’s Architecture –
- No Social Media Club –
- The phantom life of the section element and the mess of headings –
- Together in Electric Dreams –
- Give Us a Three-Day Weekend at the Beach, Every Week (an interview with Héctor Tejero) –
- Prep for the return of classified advertising –
- Good comments –
- Lo Boob Oscillator –
- NetNewsWire Feedbin probs –
- Information density –
- 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 –
- Oranje –
- Open a book –
- My cross to bear: what it means to support England in these divided times –
- Flogging brutalist website themes –
- My blogging setup –
- The perfect blogging platform: crossposting, conversing on social media and monetisation(!) –
- CSS System Colors –
- Murfield Meadow, Hadleigh –
- 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 –
- Forget deletes your old Tweets –
- Not the year of the Linux desktop –
- Font weight normal –
- St Mary-le-Tower –
- Webmention likes and replies –
- If Apple is the only organisation capable of defending our privacy, it really is time to worry –
- The perfect blogging platform: customising typography rather than theming –
- On The Ball & Off To The Ballet: Pat Nevin’s The Accidental Footballer –
- Shoot well and tell the truth –
- Mother of Perl –
- The perfect blogging platform – some principles –
- Is the stereotypical image of ‘Red Wall’ residents actually accurate? –
- WordPress is stable –
- Satanic bikers, time portals and the Fall: the story of Mark E Smith’s secret screenplay –
- Favourite Carpenters song? –
- The Mistake of A New Laptop –
- Why doesn’t Labour like people who live in cities? –
- Scottish independence –
- Send free webmentions automatically with Netlify –
- webmention.io API has a per page parameter –
- Book review: ‘Suppose a Sentence’ by Brian Dillon –
- Kobo Libra H2O: Liberated from Amazon? –
- The state of the Labour Party in 2021 –
- Philosophical Investigations §19 –
- Melie in Felixstowe –
- An open letter to Jason and David –
- England’s Fan-Owned Clubs Show that Another Football Is Possible –
- Notes on the “indieweb” #4: four months in – community, difficult discussions and the end of the web –
- SOUNDWAVE : 57 : ROEDELIUS –
- Wordpress JavaScript madness –
- Vaccinated! –
- In response to “Reply: Discussion doesn’t take place in the comments” –
- Get the FLoC out –
- Edit your RSS feed to control your site’s output to micro.blog –
- Playing Wimbledon –
- SvN is no more –
- Woodward quits! –
- Berlin Typography –
- Increasing webmentions –
- Getting your RSS feed right for social media syndication –
- Discussion doesn’t take place in the comments –
- Pensions –
- Second Beat Songs Hey Ya! –
- Four reasons to delete at least 95% of your website –
- Benny Hill and Anthony Burgess –
- When the queen dies –
- The micro.blog universe –
- Lockdown hair –
- Melie by the laptop –
- Navigation submenus – what’s the best approach? Dropdown, hovers, clicks or keeping it flat? –
- Initial thoughts on deleting content –
- micro.blog and Hugo –
- Note to self: remember to set meta descriptions –
- After the Apocalypse –
- Being an Opportunist Has Worked Well for Johnson. Why Not for Starmer? –
- Notes on the “indieweb” #3: Who’s it for? –
- I Was Never in The Fall –
- micro.blog doesn’t auto-generate links to handles? –
- On the primacy of blogging in the indiewebsphere –
- Modern G4 Cube is Working 🧊 –
- Grauzone! –
- Adding webmentions to Jekyll (an overview) –
- Dog, sleeping, in garden –
- Nerdy in the extreme –
- Rushmere Common –
- Bob Pape was a beloved father and foster carer. Did ‘eat out to help out’ cost him his life? –
- Back to the gym –
- Fear in your ear: the unstoppable rise of the horror podcast –
- Automated builds and charges –
- Home made webmentions in Jekyll –
- Firefox in-page anchor linking oddity –
- Dusting down webmention code –
- Novas Gran Reserva –
- NetNewsWire 6 converts your Twitter feed to RSS –
- Forestry is looking good for client sites –
- What’s indieweb? –
- CMS and page components –
- “We call it RSS” — an ambitious founder raises $400M at $8b valuation –
- Emoji under the hood –
- forestry.io –
- Wrong full stop –
- Local font signals –
- Four reasons it’s worth paying $5 a month for Feedbin, an RSS reader –
- When a post becomes something else –
- Your RSS feed list probably says a lot about you –
- Menu minimalismalism –
- Improve the readability of the content on your website –
- Computer Love –
- Editing RSS feeds –
- Notes on the “indieweb” #2: Where do I find things to read? –
- Silence about my race kept my family apart. Could a rescue dog bring us together? –
- world@hey.com launches and it can edit posts, which sounds clunky –
- Notes, posts, links are the same thing –
- Ditch the elevator pitch –
- Email churns out bad HTML –
- A reminder: Publishing to a website is easy –
- Remarkable 2 tablet –
- A note/post on notes and posts –
- Newsletters –
- Why brand web pages? –
- Website aphorism #5: Your website is for your customers, not you –
- For manifestos –
- Stormborn and the tyranny of choosing a Netflix series –
- Nextdoor Is Quietly Replacing the Small-Town Paper –
- The Guardian view on Europe by train: virtue signalling –
- Labour Needs A Big Idea –
- Ronnnie and Maggie, Ted and Bet –
- The Investigation – the best Scandinoir drama for ages –
- A QAnon ‘Digital Soldier’ Marches On, Undeterred by Theory’s Unraveling –
- The problem is poverty, however we label it –
- You should try the blogging platform called WordPress –
- Character, context and work –
- The Stasi Game, by David Young – book review –
- k-punk and Peep Show –
- English Scheme: Annotated Fall analysis –
- The Radicalization Of Giggle Palooza –
- On esoteric communism –
- Website aphorism #4: PDFs –
- Next Gen Static Blogging –
- In Critical Defense of Frontend Development –
- Notes on the “indieweb” #1: Where do I publish and discuss? –
- Current lockdown desk configuration –
- On Brexit, grief and moving on –
- Website aphorism #3: Text is more efficient than pictures –
- Should I build the feature request from customers? –
- All I want for 2021 is to see Mark Zuckerberg up in court –
- Website aphorism #1: Decoration serves use –
- Website aphorism #2: People are not visual learners –
- Why the Germans Do It Better by John Kampfner review – notes from a grown-up country –
- Dunwich (20 years) –
- Paying for Firefox –
- The Unbearable: Toward an Antifascist Aesthetic –
- Drone Music History To Be Focus Of New Book –
- What’s RSS? –
- Getting browsers to underline links consistently –
- 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 –
- Moon in a Dead Eye by Pascal Garnier –
- JAMstack is fast only if you make it so –
- Post stuff and make an RSS feed, please –
- Kraftwerk: Future Music from Germany –
- Endless Utopia –
- Static works –
- The Yale School of Art School website –
- Brave old new world –
- Getting charged by Netlify for the first time –
- Front end development is marketing –
- Building a web that lasts –
- 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 –
- Losing the election, strategy and hope –
- Thoughts on the State of the Web –
- WordPress funding and market dominance –
- How to put an HTML page on the internet –
- Losing that feeling of lightness –
- We’re doing it wrong: there is no ‘one perfect design’ or layout –
- NetNewsWire: Free, open source (and very good) RSS reader for Mac –
- Styling Twitter, and HTML with soul –
- Boris Johnson, tough on the economic causes of Brexit? Not likely –
- Writing HTML in HTML –
- Against Polling –
- HTML is the web –
- Ipswich (Australia) Libraries home page –
- Uber’s Path of Destruction –
- ‘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 –
- Alt-texts: The Ultimate Guide –
- Notes on AI Bias –
- «Make sure you have a good idea that can survive, even badly designed» – Interview with Erik Spiekermann, Part I –
- Boring design –
- Taking a break from blogging as I know it –
- Rebuild Britain –
- Govt as a platform –
- Online brands –
- In defence of view page source –
- Hiding accessible features –
- Hiding accessibility on web pages –
- Careful what you wish for –
- Using Staticman for comments on a Jekyll site –
- Clarity –
- Local fonts –
- Ethical computers –
- New puritan –
- If users aren’t bothered about griddy layouts, why are we? –
- Installing Jekyll in Ubuntu –
- Amp strategy –
- Testing env –
- Thatcherism money –
- 90s –
- For RP: Ditch your accent and your regional pride –
- The nation waits –
- Wordpress joy and sorrow –
- Get rich quick in silicon valley –
- The town with no centre –
- Sickness in/as The Fall and Mark E Smith –
- Inclusive web design is web design for everyone, including you –
- Basic income, realism and wasteful pessimism –
- Esoteric Ipswich –
- Why modular CSS is better than using ‘semantic’ class names: An example –
- The end of The Deck –
- Using a sound CSS methodology (you might call it a framework) is a good thing –
- Idoli –
- Labour and overcoming my pessimism (or how the left started to win Britain) –
- Improving where filters in Jekyll –
- General Election! 2017! –
- The Uniqlo website’s fixed header makes it unusable –
- Jaki Liebezeit –
- Getting to grips with Contentful and Jekyll –
- Your most comfortable reading colours depend on who you are (or: how accessibility is a tricky business) –
- Design habits: Being a CSS API user rather than an API author –
- Dynamic looping in Liquid to build an advent calendar –
- How to display a blog listing page –
- Work if you want to –
- It's easy to make fast static pages without Google AMP –
- 100 mph –
- Note to self – keep all your data OS agnostic and in the cloud, and don't live your life on your phone –
- Using presentational classes makes web design easier –
- Meaning, separation and using lots of classes freely –
- Why we'll be using a CSS framework like Tachyons to rebuild our website –
- Using Tachyons and keeping your markup dry –
- Typographic observations Good Friday 2016 (95% of what we serve is pointless) –
- Running a library website on Jekyll (maybe) –
- Living in Nigel Farage's dream –
- Do one thing well etc. etc. –
- Sketching pages with colleagues –
- Fight and Challenge Everything (yourselves) –
- Bad WordPress user names –
- Notes on (hyper)local journalism –
- The Wileyfox Swift phone –
- Belief and apostasy –
- Post no. 222 –
- Delicious and how every excellent web service ends up eating itself –
- WordPress, me and Oxmetifan 20 –
- Forbes means business, do you? –
- Creating WordPress sub navigation menus that only appear where you need them –
- Photography and other –
- Overcoming Labour –
- The dangers of automation (or making a visit to the library worth it) –
- The dangers of not opposing –
- The vacant centre (part III) –
- Designing for what they need is difficult but liberating –
- Container housing – Right solution, wrong problem –
- Old Zizek –
- Haven't found it yet –
- Unstyle and looking at naked HTML –
- New Old Labour Old New Danger –
- Murder in the cathedral – on Labour's tragedy (more Hamlet, really) –
- Show me the Next – genius concept, needs better content –
- Why my website looks so plain –
- Ambiguity –
- Dieter Moebius, 1944–2015 –
- Occupy the centre, comrades –
- What we can learn from the Tories in opposition (and how there's an opportunity for the new Labour leader to remold the party) –
- How the Observer used dubious research and shoddy reporting to promote a Blairite Labour leader –
- How I became rich and used the benefits system to claim subsidies only for George Osborne to crackdown on me –
- The vacant centre (part II) –
- Labour's problems are only partly about how it talks –
- The last liberal and how the centre broke –
- Labour's marketing politics –
- Labour's constituency –
- A party which makes errors like this is already finished –
- Generating page specific classes in WordPress templates to keep code DRY and extensible –
- Labour –
- Amazonification –
- The strange popularity of Gideon Oliver Osborne –
- A film about Austerlitz –
- The news isn’t free but we act as if it is –
- In defence of blogging –
- The Swedish universal versus austerity –
- Voting tactically –
- They went and broke citizens income, so what's next? –
- Blocking websites in libraries—our policy –
- Medium and the wrong paragraph –
- Cast the 2015 election runes –
- Newcastle, Sports Direct and Wonga – a working class club –
- Mr Turner –
- Separating services is preferable to surface integration (or 3 principles for a web strategy) –
- 30 days a blogger –
- In praise of Georgia (again) –
- I'd like a friendly Jekyll/Github hybrid to manage websites –
- Friday reading – Google, Stanford, DC, liberals and gentrification –
- We hate Labour and we need Labour –
- Whatever you do, don't mention politics if you're marketing yourself –
- The minimum wage legalises low pay –
- The art of linking –
- Scotland –
- Writing to order –
- Employee engagement –
- Bring on the fan fiction (even if I won't read it) –
- The New Library, Almere – What a universal library service looks like –
- Why restaurants publish images of their menus online (and why they shouldn't) –
- Smart dumbphones and classic iPods –
- Lowestoft –
- In praise of universality –
- Write edit build publish edit build republish –
- In my experience –
- Matthew Parris only said what most British people think about places like Clacton –
- I get better as I get older –
- The Amazon service conundrum –
- Paying for stuff and the logic of austerity –
- Using Github as a CMS –
- My rig – Getting started with Github Pages and Jekyll –
- Outliving Facebook –
- Households, deficits and belief –
- Design Observer design not for us –
- The morality of work –
- 18th century books looked like smartphones –
- How not to pay tax for 20 years –
- Let them fight the UKIP—that’s where the lunatics are –
- Mozilla, money, adverts and corporate speak –
- Why do we work unpaid hours? –
- Ipswich Town FC in the community — what does it owe? –
- Morrissey, you and me –
- 3 right wing reasons for a Basic Citizens' Income –
- iPads in classrooms –
- Low expectations –
- Basic citizen income—two examples of how it would work –
- Basic citizen income—genius idea the UK will never adopt –
- Notes on Pnin –
- Evening Edition looks good but has an audience problem –
- A few notes on moving from WordPress to Jekyll –
- Setting up WordPress style year and month URLs in Jekyll –
- How to write a factually dubious but potent blog post –
- HHhH and the value of print –
- Big fonts make for better reading experiences –
- Tschichold, democratic design and the politics of typefaces –
- Comfortable reading –
- An advertising frame of mind –
- Language affects line width –
- Google’s infantile big brain –
- A world without work –
- Krautrock –
- Borgen (or how the British don't do serious politics) –
- The rhetoric of hard work –
- Time –
- One layout is all you need –
- Debt –
- Ghost towns –
- My favourite book –
- Sunday –
- Teachers don't read –
- No recess—learning HTML –
- How to build websites –
- Typography apprenticeship –
- The great Readability conundrum (Or – If you provide a service, charge for it) –
- Evening Edition and making readable news –
- Paradise Lost –
- Polikushka – Or, the lot of a wicked court servant –
- The Rings of Saturn –
- Patience (After Sebald) –
- Lesson of The Kreuzer Sonata –
- Why nobody mourns the Queen's English Society –
- How the iPad makes coffee table books –
- The readability index –
- Politics –
- The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman –
- A Hero of our Time –
- Ulysses –
- ITV News website redesign –
- The Kreuzer Sonata –
- Have Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri rewritten The Communist Manifesto for the twenty-first century? –
- The Sentry –
- Bleak House –
- Good book design is silent –
- Keeping the web open –
- The Mystery of Edwin Drood –
- It's 2012 and we still have pop–ups –
- The Great God Pan –
- The Communist Manifesto –
- Karl Marx –
- The Emigrants –
- Edgar Allan Poe Collected Writings –
- This is not a novel –
- Hard working –
- Free of place and duty –
- Okies, chavs and responsibility deficits –
- A mobile first approach to design – Use text instead of images –
- Web writers should know HTML so teach it in school –
- Obama shows Ed Miliband how to do blogging –
- 16 pixels –
- Reading newspaper articles involves looking at words –
- A little knowledge –
- It's all marketing –
- Why justify? –
- World domination and the end of the printed word –
- Adding em or en dashes to Google docs –
- Age –
- Underclass –
- Scherzo, mobile first (and what that means for you) –
- An HTML5 challenge (which lead me to think – Why bother with HTML5 sectioning elements?) –
- Why business writing is rubbish –
- Putting content and meaning first –
- Lord Ashcroft, floating voters and 2015 –
- Nabokov on other writers –
- An ode to Firefox –
- The ideas of March –
- Money –
- The 18th Conclusion –
- Dostoevsky, calligraphy and idiocy –
- Understanding the Ur-Bororo –
- Stillness in The White Ribbon –
- 95 percent –
- Paternoster Row –
- Paternoster Square –
- Sorry –
- Tea –
- J. S. Bach Solo Sonata no. 3 in C Major, BWV 1005 –
- Scherzo theme added to the WordPress directory –
- The Killing (Forbrydelsen) –
- Short attention spans, mobile phones and the future of reading –
- Why I like Freedom –
- Piano Quintet in F minor (Franck) –
- Weighty tomes –
- (Un)Creatives –
- How to write a blog post –
- Defeat, reading and politics –
- Good web copy is boring –
- Why I don't like Tumblr and Posterous –
- An aside really isn’t a sidebar –
- Vertical navigation and not making users think –
- Good copy redeems bad layout and typography –
- Introducing the Scherzo theme for WordPress –
- The books –
- Online newspaper layout – 10 years and 10 steps back –
- Text is text is text is text –
- Two blog formats – magazines and journals –
- How print and web are different –
- Simple, complex, ordered, butchered –
- Readability and font sizes –
- Produce! –
- Writing great articles – anatomy of a BBC news story –
- Unintelligible business language –
- Wainright typography –
- Times for print, Georgia for screen –