Web components have been around for quite a while, but it feels like they’re having a bit of a moment right now. It turns out that the best selling point for web components was “wait and see.” For everyone who didn’t see the benefit of web components over being locked…

It’s like a little mini conference season here in Brighton. Tomorrow is ffconf, which I’m really looking forward to. Last week was UX Brighton, which was thoroughly enjoyable. Maybe it’s because the theme this year was all around creativity, but all of the UX Brighton speakers gave entertaining presentations. The…

John Willshire has been pondering web marginilia AKA stuff you put in your sidebar. He has a particular fondness for the good ol’ blogroll. I’ve still got my analogue equivalent on my homepage — the bedroll. It’s a list of links to people who’ve stayed over. Maybe I should also…

When Mathew Modine’s character first shows up in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, I figured the rest of the cinema audience wouldn’t have appreciated me shouting out “VANNEVAR BUSH IN THE HOUSE!” so I screamed it on the inside. The Manhattan Project was not his only claim to fame or infamy. When…

After two days at border:none in Nuremberg, it was time for two days at Indie Web Camp, also in Nuremberg. I hadn’t been to an Indie Web Camp since before The Situation. It felt very good to be back. I had almost forgotten how inspiring and productive they can be. …

In 2013, I spoke at the border:none event in Nuremberg. I gave a talk called The Power of Simplicity. It was a great little event. Most of the talks were, like mine, on technical topics; design, development, the usual conference material. This year Joschi and Marc decided to have another…

I’ve always associated good design with thoughtfulness. Like, I should be able to point to any element in an interface and the designer should be able to tell me the reasons it’s there. Those reasons may be rooted in user needs or asthetics or some other consideration, but the point…

The bedrock of the World Wide Web is solid. Built atop the protocols of the internet (TCP/IP), its fundamental building blocks remain: URLs of HTML files transmitted over HTTP. Baldur Bjarnason writes: Even today, the web is like living fossil, a preserved relic from a different era. Anybody can put…

Eric mentioned the JavaScript closest method. I use it all the time. When I wrote the book DOM Scripting back in 2005, I’d estimate that 90% of the JavaScript I was writing boiled down to: Find these particular elements in the DOM and When the user clicks on one of…