2023 in numbers
Another year on adactio.com
Journal archive: 2023
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Progress
An objectively good year.
Words I wrote in 2023
A selection of blog posts from the past year.
Books I read in 2023
An unexpected diversion to ancient Greece.
Stuck in the dock
Safari-installed web apps are now broken.
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An alternate route to a declarative version of the Web Share API.
After the end
Don’t they know it’s the end of the world?
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Sessions
Five in a row.
Lost in calculation
A lazy option for responsive images is at hand.
How green is my server?
And why is it so hard to find out?
The complete line-up for Patterns Day …and a workshop!
Eight fantastic speakers, and one unmissable full-day workshop with Vitaly Friedman.
UX London returns in 2024
Grab your super early-bird ticket this week.
HTML web components
Don’t replace. Augment.
Creativity
Thinking about priorities at UX Brighton.
In the margins
Marginalia and annotations on the web.
A memex in every web browser
Show me my associative trails.
Indie Web Camp Nuremberg
Updating my website with related posts and fixing link rot.
border:none 2023
The event returns, ten years on.
Decision time
Balancing the ledger.
Increment by increment
The web of yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
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DOM scripting and event handling.
Making the Patterns Day website
The joy of getting hands-on with HTML and CSS.
Patterns Day is back!
The one-day event focused on design systems returns on Thursday, March 7th 2024.
Websites in the dock
You can launch web apps as standalone apps on Mac now.
Crawlers
Pest control for your website.
Trabaja remoto
A week in Spain.
Simon’s rule
Writing and reading.
Secure tunes
Closing a security hole on The Session.
Speedy tunes
Improving performance on The Session.
Multi-page web apps
A question via email…
Performative performance
When it comes to sustainable web design, the hard work is invisible.
Lovers in a dangerous time
Europe, 1991.
Travels
From Southampton to New York to Florida to Croatia.
Crossing
I’m out of here for the next while.
Automation
Take my job. Please.
Coding prototypes
Write what you need to test a hypothesis. Then throw that code away.
Relative times
Messing around with Intl.RelativeTimeFormat on The Session.
Conduct
Kindnesses and cruelties.
Immersed
Going offline, but in the service worker way.
Opportunity
When life gives you lemons, build a better mousetrap.
The syndicate
Cross-posting to wherever is flavour of the month.
Permission
You have the power, not Google.
Talking about “web3” and “AI”
I gave a short talk on a big topic.
Five books
Broad Band, Uncanny Valley, Close to the Machine, Abolish Silicon Valley, and The Victorian Internet.
That was UX London 2023
Two inspiring days with brilliant people.
Junevents
Amsterdam, Bristol, London.
Button types
Ideas for some declarative shortcuts.
Days of style and standards
CSS Day 2023 in Amsterdam.
Sunday
I love this weather.
Reaction
Weekend action, weekend reaction.
Accessibility audits for all
Catching some accessibility issues doesn’t need to be left to the experts.
Five questions
I gave five answers to Oliver, who’s organising the Pixel Pioneers event in Bristol.
Add view transitions to your website
Enhance your website, progressively.
Talks and workshops at UX London 2023
What a line-up!
Nailspotting
Hammering the cramps.
Hosting DIBI
On stage in Edinburgh.
Tragedy
Greek tragedies are time-travel stories.
Innovation
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
The intersectionality of web performance
Business, sustainability, and inclusivity.
Spring
The Situation changes like the seasons.
Assumption
Separate your concerns.
Workaround
Browsers and bugs.
Remote
A week of working from Sicily.
Read-only web apps
It’s fine to require JavaScript for read/write functionality. But have you considered a read-only mode without JavaScript?
Progressive disclosure with HTML
The `details` element is like the TL;DR of markup.
Browser history
From a browser bug this morning, back to the birth of hypertext in 1945, with a look forward to a possible future for web browsers.
Scholarship sponsorship
Could your company help support the UX London scholarship programme?
Design transformation on the Clearleft podcast
The first episode of the long-overdue fourth season.
More speakers for UX London 2023
Ignacia Orellana, Stefanie Posavec, and David Dylan Thomas.
Steam
“I wish to God these hot takes had been reckoned by steam!”
Disclosure
You’re in a desert, you see a tortoise lying on its back, and your call is very important to us.
Another three speakers for UX London 2023
Stephen Hay, Asia Hoe, and Amy Hupe.
Guessing
We’ve taught machines to hallucinate so let’s be honest about their hallucinations.
The past is a foreign country
…and we’ve got its cultural artifacts.
Like
Compression, aviation, percussion, and teuthology.
The next four speakers for UX London 2023
Stacey Mendez, Hannah Smith, Vitaly Friedman, and Trine Falbe.
Web Audio API update on iOS
The behaviour is more consistent now.
UX London 2023 scholarship programme
Complementary tickets for people from under-estimated groups.
Redesigning UX London
Tweaking the format of the event.
These were my jams
Reminiscing about This Is My Jam.
Push
Mobile Safari finally ships the feature we’ve all been waiting for …but hardly anyone is going to get to use it.
Brandolini’s blockchain
There is no future but what we make.
The first four speakers for UX London 2023
Drumroll please… Imran Afzal, Vimla Appadoo, Daniel Burka, and Mansi Gupta are all speaking!
You can call me AI
Seminal technology.
Home stream
Hodgepodges and through lines.
Change
A cathartic Leading Design San Francisco.
In between
Between the physical and the digital. Between native apps and the World Wide Web.
One morning in the future
Video calls with India and flying drones in Antarctica.
Culture and style
Styling a document about The Culture novels of Iain M Banks.
Three attributes for better web forms
Better UX through better HTML: inputmode, enterkeyhint, and autocomplete.
Chain of tools
The driven division.
Mars distracts
Humans on Mars. Why?
Five websites
I have some very talented friends.
Blood
One hundred duck-sized Christs is better than one horse-sized Jesus.
2022
Looking back at the year.