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April recap – TXJS & Front-Trends 14 May 2013 | 03:54 pm
April was pretty decent. I got to attend two very good conferences and I got to speak at them. TXJS, Austin, USA Austin! One of my favourite cities (mostly because I love tacos). Was very pleased to b...
Jawbone Up Review 8 May 2013 | 05:34 pm
I’ve had a fair few people ask about the Jawbone Up I’ve been wearing since November (the second version, not the recalled first one – although, as you’ll read, perhaps this one should have been too)....
Back the Pastry Box Book 14 Jan 2013 | 10:58 pm
As I mentioned, I wrote for the Pastry Box Project for all of 2012. Now, it’s hopefully going to be printed in dead tree form with the royalties going to the Red Cross. That’s kind of nice, as are man...
A follow-up to “Conferences aren’t the problem” 8 Jan 2013 | 07:54 pm
Writing a follow-up seems necessary at this point, because my last post garnered more attention than I had anticipated, and the comments on it were much more, well, ridiculous than I think I can give ...
Conferences aren’t the problem 6 Jan 2013 | 07:11 am
We’ve barely started the new year, and already there’s been a spat about a conference and their lack of diversity. Rather unfortunately, they picked 22 white, young, men and only one woman (so far) to...
Baked posts 28 Dec 2012 | 04:00 pm
For the last year, I’ve been writing monthly for the Pastry Box Project, along with 30 other folks of the web. We’re rather cutely referred to as “bakers”. I’m all done now, and you can see all the po...
Accidental designer 20 Jul 2012 | 10:22 pm
Despite my advertising myself as a front-end developer, writing a lot of HTML and JS, I find my most productive days taken up considering and designing digital products and services, ideally with data...
Designing better user experiences – TXJS 2012 15 Jun 2012 | 05:22 am
As promised, here’s a list of the resources and links and other stuff I mentioned today at TXJS in my talk Government Digital Service Design Principles Designing for Usability (pdf) – IBM Design Pr...
Schema-org, microformats and more science please 2 Dec 2011 | 08:18 am
A normal conversation in the GovUK (or any office I frequent) today went*: “Can we get some microformats on that page?”, I suggest as I spot a section of our site outputting a boat-load of addresses. ...
Gold-plating the cow paths 1 Nov 2011 | 03:11 am
I was quoted a couple of weeks ago as saying, albeit in private, the following: “HTML fails to be simple if it can’t provide what authors regularly need and end up turning to other encodings” — @phae...
