Jake Archibald is speaking at Web Day Out
The sixth speaker is revealed—only two more to go!
Journal archive: 2025
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Reasoning
In which I find a tagline for Web Day Out and a tagline for React.
Live
A good week of music from Ireland, Australia, England, and Ukraine.
Research
Quant vs. qual.
Simplify
Reminding myself just how much you can do with CSS these days.
Coattails
Language matters.
Decontrolled
Leaving an airport in an unconventional manner.
Summer’s end
Seeing out September in Spain.
Earth
Synchronicity.
Hounds Of Love
I put this moment here.
Sponsor Web Day Out
Your company should partner up with this event.
Harry Roberts is speaking at Web Day Out
This line-up just gets better and better! You’ll want to be in Brighton on March 12th, 2026.
Dancing about dancing
Meandering musings on meta-milieus.
Speaking at Web Day Out
Have you got the perfect talk for this event? Let me know!
Announcing Web Day Out
A one-day event all about what you can in web browsers today: Brighton, March 12th, 2026. Tickets are just £225+VAT!
The Invisibles
Making a checklist of things that fall somewhere between front-end and back-end development.
Databasing
The need for speed on The Session.
Newsletters
Eight recommendations for your feed reader.
Underlines and line height
How to make the distance of link underlines proportional to the line height of the text.
Style your underlines
Make your links beautiful and accessible.
Session talk
I gave a talk in Belfast.
Progressive web apps
If you’re thinking of making a native app, think again.
Streamlining HTML web components
Some handy tips courtesy of Chris Ferdinandi.
Portugeating
Food recommendations for Lisbon and Porto.
Donegal to Galway to Clare
A journey down the west coast of Ireland.
Gleann Cholm Cille
My week in Donegal.
Irish odyssey
Rolling with the travel punches.
Live
Rocking out with Salter Cane.
UX Londoners
Warm fuzzies courtesy of the brilliant speakers at this year’s UX London.
That was UX London 2025
The best yet!
Uses
Large language models are big messy brushes, not scalpels.
Tools
A large language model is as neutral as an AK-47.
The landing zone
There is no fold.
Salter Cane album launch gig on Friday, 20th June
Join us in the Hope And Ruin in Brighton for a magnificent evening of menacing music.
Session spider
A fun little visualisation of Irish music sessions on a map.
Awareness
Turning accessibility awareness into action with HTML.
A tiny taxonomy of meetings
Divergent meetings, convergent meetings, and occasional chemistry meetings.
The closing talks at UX London 2025
You’re in for a treat with Paula Zuccotti, Sarah Hyndman, and Rachel Coldicutt!
CSS snippets
Some styles I re-use when I’m programming with CSS.
Codewashing
Whether you’re generating slop or code, underneath it’s the same shoggoth with a smiley face.
UX London flash sale
For one week only, get 20% off any ticket!
OKLCH()
Programming with CSS.
Paying it forward
Like something I’ve written? You can thank me by helping foster the next generation of Irish traditional musicians.
Salter Cane unplugged in Lewes
Come along to Union Music Store at 1pm this Saturday.
Denial
The best of the web is under continuous attack from the technology that powers your generative “AI” tools.
Five years
Remembering The Situation.
Command and control
HTML’s new `command` attribute on the `button` element could be a game-changer.
Style legend
Why I’d like to see one or two more elements included in the new proposal for styling form controls.
Design processing
Three designers I know have been writing about large language models.
Curating UX London 2025
Divergent, then convergent.
Twittotage
Changing a bot’s behaviour to inflict maximum damage.
Sessioning
Playing jigs’n’reels every night.
Prog
My musical taste has changed over time. For the better, I think.
The line-up for UX London 2025
Three days of excellent talks and workshops in the heart of the city.
Hosted
Research By The Sea was an excellent day out!
The web on mobile
Technically, websites can do just about anything that native apps can do. And yet the actual experience of using the web on mobile is worse than ever.
Re-dConstruct
If, like me, you miss dConstruct, you should come to Research By The Sea next week.
Reason
Please read Miriam’s latest blog post.
Making the new Salter Cane website
A redesign with modern CSS.
Deep Black Water
The new Salter Cane album.
Blog Questions Challenge
Answers to some questions about blogging.
Research By The Sea
A one-day conference in Brighton on Thursday, February 27th that isn’t just for researchers.
Elektra
Brie Larson wound up in an oddly messy production of the classic revenge story.
Changing
I’m trying to be open to changing my mind when presented with new evidence.
Conference line-ups
Why I withdrew from speaking at two different conferences with uncomfortably homogenous line-ups.
A long-awaited talk
Remy and I gave a talk at Brighton’s Async meetup …five years after we were originally booked in.
25, 20, 15, 10, 5
Five segments of a quarter century.
2024
How I spent the year.