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2022

30/04/22
Some notes on using clamp and vw to set font size
09/04/22
The Guardian asks permission to show embedded Instagram content. Is this the future?
09/04/22
9 April is CSS Naked Day
03/04/22
Make your website quicker and improve UX by not placing an image at the top of the home page
22/03/22
Logic on static sites (and the advantages of failing catastrophically but knowably)
09/03/22
A barebones Underscores WordPress child theme
30/01/22
TweetDelete deletes all your old tweets
29/01/22
A book on the web: Sherlock Holmes and the never completed text
20/01/22
The shareable, indie charm of Wordle
11/01/22
50
10/01/22
The only thing stopping me from using WordPress is the lack of a truly barebones, unopinionated parent theme
01/01/22
Imagining WordPress without themes

2021

04/12/21
Four things I learned by validating my HTML
20/11/21
Experimenting with short lines of text: the ideal width for whom?
13/11/21
Notes on line length revisited: Does recent research debunk the idea of an ideal line length?
18/10/21
Julian Cope on Faust and Jim Kerr, and the term “Krautrock”
09/10/21
Notes on marking up two navigation lists on the same HTML page
07/10/21
You are your phone’s AdID
02/10/21
Notes on files and folders, and how platforms killed them
19/09/21
Automating webp production in Jekyll
18/09/21
Should I use… webp?
06/09/21
Intention not tech
04/09/21
Indieweb as state of mind
31/08/21
How to write old-fashioned CSS
29/08/21
Applying the principle of proximity to improve your web article typography
27/08/21
Some notes on leading (or line height) on websites
23/08/21
Setting responsive font sizes in CSS
20/08/21
Notes on the design of Nabokov’s Butterflies and blogs
14/08/21
Integrating the Nord colour scheme into a Jekyll site using custom properties
01/08/21
Some notes on measure (or line width) on websites
17/07/21
The phantom life of the section element and the mess of headings
11/07/21
Focusing your writing with a simple scaffolding technique
06/06/21
The perfect blogging platform: crossposting, conversing on social media and monetisation(!)
22/05/21
The perfect blogging platform: customising typography rather than theming
18/05/21
The perfect blogging platform – some principles
09/05/21
Why doesn’t Labour like people who live in cities?
05/05/21
The state of the Labour Party in 2021
02/05/21
Notes on the “indieweb” #4: four months in – community, difficult discussions and the end of the web
24/04/21
Edit your RSS feed to control your site’s output to micro.blog
17/04/21
Four reasons to delete at least 95% of your website
11/04/21
Navigation submenus – what’s the best approach? Dropdown, hovers, clicks or keeping it flat?
03/04/21
Notes on the “indieweb” #3: Who’s it for?
31/03/21
Adding webmentions to Jekyll (an overview)
27/03/21
CMSs should allow component-based page creation, but does WordPress Gutenberg get it right?
20/03/21
Four reasons it’s worth paying $5 a month for Feedbin, an RSS reader
13/03/21
Libraries as alternative
07/03/21
Notes on the “indieweb” #2: Where do I find things to read?
06/03/21
world@hey.com launches and it can edit posts, which sounds clunky
28/02/21
A reminder: Publishing to a website is easy
28/02/21
Email churns out bad HTML
27/02/21
Marketing without tracking
14/02/21
A note/post on notes and posts
13/02/21
Why brand web pages?
07/02/21
Stormborn and the tyranny of choosing a Netflix series
25/01/21
Labour Needs A Big Idea
23/01/21
The Investigation – the best Scandinoir drama for ages
23/01/21
Ronnnie and Maggie, Ted and Bet
20/01/21
You should try the blogging platform called WordPress
17/01/21
k-punk and Peep Show
16/01/21
English Scheme: Annotated Fall analysis
09/01/21
Notes on the “indieweb” #1: Where do I publish and discuss?

2020

14/06/20
Moon in a Dead Eye by Pascal Garnier
31/05/20
Kraftwerk: Future Music from Germany
08/05/20
Endless Utopia
03/05/20
Static works
19/02/20
The Yale School of Art School website

2019

28/12/19
Building a web that lasts
02/11/19
Losing the election, strategy and hope
28/08/19
NetNewsWire: Free, open source (and very good) RSS reader for Mac
27/07/19
Styling Twitter, and HTML with soul

2018

31/12/18
Taking a break from blogging as I know it
08/09/18
In defence of view page source
01/09/18
Hiding accessibility on web pages
26/08/18
Using Staticman for comments on a Jekyll site
17/08/18
If users aren’t bothered about griddy layouts, why are we?
30/05/18
For RP: Ditch your accent and your regional pride
07/01/18
Inclusive web design is web design for everyone, including you

2017

28/12/17
Basic income, realism and wasteful pessimism
22/08/17
Why modular CSS is better than using ‘semantic’ class names: An example
20/08/17
The end of The Deck
27/05/17
Improving where filters in Jekyll
18/04/17
General Election! 2017!
28/02/17
The Uniqlo website’s fixed header makes it unusable

2016

11/12/16
Getting to grips with Contentful and Jekyll
07/12/16
Your most comfortable reading colours depend on who you are (or: how accessibility is a tricky business)
04/12/16
Design habits: Being a CSS API user rather than an API author
06/11/16
How to display a blog listing page
05/11/16
Work if you want to
23/10/16
It's easy to make fast static pages without Google AMP
14/05/16
Using presentational classes makes web design easier
07/05/16
Meaning, separation and using lots of classes freely
24/04/16
Why we'll be using a CSS framework like Tachyons to rebuild our website
17/04/16
Using Tachyons and keeping your markup dry
29/03/16
The future of libraries (again)
20/03/16
Running a library website on Jekyll (maybe)
20/02/16
Living in Nigel Farage's dream
07/02/16
Fight and Challenge Everything (yourselves)
31/01/16
Notes on (hyper)local journalism
23/01/16
Belief and apostasy
13/01/16
Delicious and how every excellent web service ends up eating itself
07/01/16
WordPress, me and Oxmetifan 20
02/01/16
Creating WordPress sub navigation menus that only appear where you need them

2015

21/11/15
The dangers of automation (or making a visit to the library worth it)
11/11/15
The vacant centre (part III)
03/11/15
Container housing – Right solution, wrong problem
17/10/15
Unstyle and looking at naked HTML
05/09/15
Why my website looks so plain
19/07/15
How the Observer used dubious research and shoddy reporting to promote a Blairite Labour leader
07/06/15
The last liberal and how the centre broke
21/05/15
Generating page specific classes in WordPress templates to keep code DRY and extensible
18/05/15
Labour
20/03/15
In defence of blogging
01/03/15
The Swedish universal versus austerity
28/01/15
They went and broke citizens income, so what's next?

2014

08/12/14
Cast the 2015 election runes
22/11/14
Newcastle, Sports Direct and Wonga – a working class club
29/09/14
30 days a blogger
28/09/14
In praise of Georgia (again)
26/09/14
Friday reading – Google, Stanford, DC, liberals and gentrification
21/09/14
The minimum wage legalises low pay
20/09/14
The art of linking
19/09/14
Scotland
13/09/14
Why restaurants publish images of their menus online (and why they shouldn't)
11/09/14
Lowestoft
10/09/14
In praise of universality
08/09/14
Write edit build publish edit build republish
06/09/14
Matthew Parris only said what most British people think about places like Clacton
24/07/14
Households, deficits and belief
11/06/14
The morality of work
21/02/14
Mozilla, money, adverts and corporate speak

2013

06/10/13
3 right wing reasons for a Basic Citizens' Income
29/09/13
Basic citizen income—two examples of how it would work
23/09/13
Basic citizen income—genius idea the UK will never adopt
07/07/13
Evening Edition looks good but has an audience problem
23/06/13
A few notes on moving from WordPress to Jekyll
24/03/13
Tschichold, democratic design and the politics of typefaces
21/02/13
Google’s infantile big brain
06/01/13
A world without work

2012

16/12/12
The rhetoric of hard work
18/11/12
Debt
05/08/12
The great Readability conundrum (Or – If you provide a service, charge for it)
18/07/12
Evening Edition and making readable news
06/06/12
How the iPad makes coffee table books
22/03/12
ITV News website redesign

2011

22/12/11
Hard working
25/10/11
Obama shows Ed Miliband how to do blogging
07/10/11
16 pixels
28/09/11
Reading newspaper articles involves looking at words
26/08/11
Why justify?
11/08/11
Adding em or en dashes to Google docs
08/07/11
Scherzo, mobile first (and what that means for you)
20/06/11
An HTML5 challenge (which lead me to think – Why bother with HTML5 sectioning elements?)
16/06/11
Why business writing is rubbish
09/06/11
Putting content and meaning first
18/05/11
Lord Ashcroft, floating voters and 2015
25/03/11
Nabokov on other writers
24/03/11
An ode to Firefox
21/01/11
Short attention spans, mobile phones and the future of reading

2010

15/09/10
How to write a blog post
05/05/10
Good web copy is boring
22/03/10
Why I don't like Tumblr and Posterous
05/03/10
An aside really isn’t a sidebar
13/01/10
Vertical navigation and not making users think

2009

22/11/09
Good copy redeems bad layout and typography
04/10/09
Introducing the Scherzo theme for WordPress
26/05/09
Two blog formats – magazines and journals
30/04/09
How print and web are different
13/01/09
Simple, complex, ordered, butchered

2008

13/08/08
Writing great articles – anatomy of a BBC news story
05/05/08
Times for print, Georgia for screen