Notes
2023
- Reading as a battle rather than collaboration
- I’m linking to my stylesheet as if it’s 2015
- Migrating from Netlify to Fastmail hosting
- #FallFriday 2023-10-13: Neighbourhood of Infinity
- There was no possibility of taking a walk…
- Fall Friday 2023-09-22: Spencer
- Tesla ad ruins Top Boy
- Text decoration in Safari is odd
- Fall Friday 2023-09-01
- Not writing for Google
- ITFC v LUFC
- Fall Friday 2023-08-25
- Prussian songs
- Going mono
- The beginning of the end of the JAMStack and Netlify
- Fall Friday 2023-07-28
- Verdana revival
- Importing every account you follow’s rss feed into Feedbin might not be that clever after all
- Fastmail does static websites
- Fall Friday 2023-07-14
- Forgive all these links today
- Remember POSSE, Leon
- Le Tissier warning on pace of revolution
- Autoposting from micro.blog to Mastodon
- Trialling Plausible on a university website
- Current CSS approach
- FallFriday 2023-06-23
- Links should be underlined on micro.blog
- Using figures for article listings
- Fall Friday 2023-06-16
- Keyboard to face attachment unit
- Fall Friday 2023-06-09
- Fall Friday 2023-06-02
- Into Browserworld
- Fall Friday 2023-05-26
- Video backgrounds
- Fall Friday 2023-05-19
- A blog’s requirements
- Good code man
- Not worrying about webmentions
- Fall Friday 2023-05-12
- Thanks and I picked your webmention up 👍
- Related benefits
- Fall Friday 2023-05-05
- This is the day
- Fall Friday 2023-04-28
- Improving site performance
- More webmention woes
- Fall Friday 2023-04-21
- Reply to Andrés Cárdenas on Minimal and usable
- Hovis in The Fall
- Fall Friday 2023-04-14
- Making landlords rich
- Fall Friday 2023-04-07
- More Fall lyrics
- Derby 0-2 ITFC
- Making random Fall lyrics
- Using webmentions for your site comments
- Fall Friday 2023-03-31
- Publishing Fall lyrics
- Fall Friday 2023-03-24
- ITFC v Shrewsbury 18 Mar 2023
- Zola experiments part 1
- Zola?
- Fall Friday 2023-03-17
- The best form is no form
- FLIC BOT
- gandi.net is more expensive
- WordPress bound
- It is 2009 on Twitter
- Fall Friday 2023-02-24
- 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
- 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
- A little RSS badge as a prize
- Validate yer feeds
- The best thing about Github is correcting blog post typos
- Sending webmentions is hard
- Fall Friday 2023-02-10
- Reply to: https://kandr3s.co/notes/2023-02-06-ycjwj
- Flat navigation menus
- Trailing slashes
- Bridgy crossposting
- Going with the grain
- My CSS is an absolute mess
- Fall Friday 2023-02-03
- On the house of all
- Changing a font weight from 600 to normal
- 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
- Netlify integrations – webmentions
- Butterfly keyboards are rubbish
- RSS to Mastodon notes
- Current stream status
- Fall Friday 2023-01-20
- Headless and invisible CMSs
- Prose as possible minimal CMS
- Clearer what Twitter is
- Testing webmentions. Again.
- Fall Friday 2023-01-13
- New CMS
- DNS, DNS
- 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
- Tailoring syndication to social platforms
- The Guardian API is down
- Quitting Twitter
- Standard eBooks
- The year of no Godaddy
2022
- 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?
- POSSE for when it falls over
- Lab majority 2024
- Building dynamic static sites
- The left and the fediverse
- No HTML in IFTTT to Mastodon posts?
- Use Brid.gy to post to Mastodon from your website
- Men and things
- Follower counts on Mastodon
- Static time wasters
- Fixing comments
- To toot or not to toot
- Jekyll 5 on the horizon
- On leave
- Fostodon test
- UK’s relegation to League One
- Bookmark managers
- Hero images just get in the way
- Removing royal stories from Skinny Guardian
- Site on a Nokia 225
- Pick an ownership model
- Real mobile design
- Using Windows
- Twitter and page position
- Level six
- Closed Twitter open site
- 40°
- About to publish
- Hiding search boxes
- Rediscovering 500 words
- Tinkering with your MVP website until it looks like mine
- My last day at Suffolk Libraries
- Hero image and video-addicted uni websites don’t optimise, so they’re really slow
- Ipswich is very ordinary
- Bad Twitter ideas
- GB News on my Tv
- Sorry!
- WP block editor
- Going Postal
- Applying link taxonomy to articles
- You don’t see many cats on leads
- Twitter should move to a subscription model
- NetNewsWire themes
- Page Speed live edits
- Phil Gyford does webmentions
- YouTube will ruin your PageSpeed score
- Oh yeah? Oh brother!
- Antialising type guilt
- Shoulder Pads is All Gates Open sped up
- Wordle 246 3/6
- Wordle 243 3/6
- Wordle 239 3/6
- Propagation
- Wordle 238 4/6
- Wordle 237 4/6
- Rockwell Kent Moby Dick illustrations
- Wordle 234 5/6
- Wordle 233 5/6
- Wordle 232 3/6
- Pocket now requires a Firefox account
- Wordle 231 4/6
- Wordle 230 2/6
- Wordle 229 4/6
- Wordle 228 3/6
- Wordle 227 4/6
- Wordle 226 4/6
- Wordle 225 4/6
- Wordle 224 4/6
- 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
- Wordle 215 6/6
- Wordle 211 3/6
- Wordle sharing
- Hover states should be more distinct than non-hover states
2021
- Post ideas for the weekend
- Design Regression (a website about design for reading and reading-related research)
- Staves
- Static sites for small organisations
- Wrong Guardian headlines
- Neu Jekyll theme in the works
- Strip out everything
- Mademoiselle Non
- Morning Land by Faust (from Faust 1971-1974 Box Set)
- Safari’s godawful tabs got me thinking about using it more
- Changing the micro.blog feed
- Notes on types of website and user navigation needs
- The platform is down, but my website is up
- Measure, size, reclining
- Automating webp in Jekyll
- 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
- 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”
- Fish in the afternoon
- Twitter forcing 2FA
- Avenir b i
- Measure article update
- Sophie Taeuber-Arp
- Ragged right English alignment
- Design next steps
- Logos and function and delight
- Distance from the screen and reading
- Google Search’s fixed header
- Eiffel Tower
- Font choice don’ts
- Charter
- Butter dish
- Typeface notes
- Toto Nsiala praying
- Twitter logins make you use a third party account
- About this Mac
- ITFC season ticket
- Facebook Container identifies all email fields as a potential risk
- Prep for the return of classified advertising
- Good comments
- Lo Boob Oscillator
- NetNewsWire Feedbin probs
- Information density
- Oranje
- Open a book
- Flogging brutalist website themes
- My blogging setup
- Murfield Meadow, Hadleigh
- Forget deletes your old Tweets
- Not the year of the Linux desktop
- Font weight normal
- St Mary-le-Tower
- Webmention likes and replies
- Shoot well and tell the truth
- WordPress is stable
- Favourite Carpenters song?
- Scottish independence
- Send free webmentions automatically with Netlify
- webmention.io API has a per page parameter
- Philosophical Investigations §19
- Melie in Felixstowe
- Wordpress JavaScript madness
- Vaccinated!
- In response to “Reply: Discussion doesn’t take place in the comments”
- 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
- Benny Hill and Anthony Burgess
- The micro.blog universe
- Lockdown hair
- Melie by the laptop
- Initial thoughts on deleting content
- micro.blog and Hugo
- Note to self: remember to set meta descriptions
- micro.blog doesn’t auto-generate links to handles?
- On the primacy of blogging in the indiewebsphere
- Grauzone!
- Dog, sleeping, in garden
- Rushmere Common
- Back to the gym
- 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
- forestry.io
- Local font signals
- Wrong full stop
- Your RSS feed list probably says a lot about you
- When a post becomes something else
- Menu minimalismalism
- Computer Love
- Editing RSS feeds
- Notes, posts, links are the same thing
- Remarkable 2 tablet
- For manifestos
- Website aphorism #5: Your website is for your customers, not you
- Website aphorism #4: PDFs
- On esoteric communism
- Current lockdown desk configuration
- Website aphorism #3: Text is more efficient than pictures
- Website aphorism #2: People are not visual learners
- Website aphorism #1: Decoration serves use
2020
- Paying for Firefox
- Dunwich (20 years)
- What’s RSS?
- Getting browsers to underline links consistently
- Post stuff and make an RSS feed, please
- Brave old new world
- Getting charged by Netlify for the first time
- Front end development is marketing
2019
2018
- Rebuild Britain
- Govt as a platform
- Online brands
- Hiding accessible features
- Careful what you wish for
- Clarity
- Local fonts
- Ethical computers
- New puritan
- Installing Jekyll in Ubuntu
- Amp strategy
- Testing env
- Thatcherism money
- 90s
- 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
2017
- Esoteric Ipswich
- 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)
- Jaki Liebezeit
2016
- Dynamic looping in Liquid to build an advent calendar
- 100 mph
- Note to self – keep all your data OS agnostic and in the cloud, and don't live your life on your phone
- Typographic observations Good Friday 2016 (95% of what we serve is pointless)
- Do one thing well etc. etc.
- Sketching pages with colleagues
- Bad WordPress user names
- The Wileyfox Swift phone
- Post no. 222
- Forbes means business, do you?
- Photography and other
2015
- Overcoming Labour
- The dangers of not opposing
- Designing for what they need is difficult but liberating
- Old Zizek
- Haven't found it yet
- 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
- Ambiguity
- Occupy the centre, comrades
- Dieter Moebius, 1944–2015
- 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 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
- Labour's marketing politics
- A party which makes errors like this is already finished
- Labour's constituency
- Amazonification
- The strange popularity of Gideon Oliver Osborne
- A film about Austerlitz
- The news isn’t free but we act as if it is
- Voting tactically
- Blocking websites in libraries—our policy
2014
- Medium and the wrong paragraph
- Mr Turner
- Separating services is preferable to surface integration (or 3 principles for a web strategy)
- I'd like a friendly Jekyll/Github hybrid to manage websites
- We hate Labour and we need Labour
- Whatever you do, don't mention politics if you're marketing yourself
- 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
- Smart dumbphones and classic iPods
- In my experience
- 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
- Design Observer design not for us
- How not to pay tax for 20 years
- 18th century books looked like smartphones
- Let them fight the UKIP—that’s where the lunatics are
2013
- Why do we work unpaid hours?
- Ipswich Town FC in the community — what does it owe?
- Morrissey, you and me
- Low expectations
- iPads in classrooms
- Notes on Pnin
- 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
- Comfortable reading
- An advertising frame of mind
- Language affects line width
- Krautrock
2012
- Borgen (or how the British don't do serious politics)
- Time
- One layout is all you need
- Ghost towns
- My favourite book
- Sunday
- Teachers don't read
- No recess—learning HTML
- Typography apprenticeship
- How to build websites
- Paradise Lost
- The Rings of Saturn
- Polikushka – Or, the lot of a wicked court servant
- Patience (After Sebald)
- Why nobody mourns the Queen's English Society
- Lesson of The Kreuzer Sonata
- The readability index
- Politics
- The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
- A Hero of our Time
- Ulysses
- Have Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri rewritten The Communist Manifesto for the twenty-first century?
- The Kreuzer Sonata
- The Sentry
- Bleak House
- Good book design is silent
- The Mystery of Edwin Drood
- Keeping the web open
- The Great God Pan
- It's 2012 and we still have pop–ups
- The Communist Manifesto
- Karl Marx
- The Emigrants
- This is not a novel
- Edgar Allan Poe Collected Writings
2011
- 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
- It's all marketing
- A little knowledge
- World domination and the end of the printed word
- Underclass
- Age
- 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
- Tea
- Sorry
- J. S. Bach Solo Sonata no. 3 in C Major, BWV 1005
- Scherzo theme added to the WordPress directory
- The Killing (Forbrydelsen)
- Why I like Freedom
- Weighty tomes
- Piano Quintet in F minor (Franck)
- (Un)Creatives