This was originally posted on my own site. Back in November of last year I announced that UX London would be returning in 2023 and that I’d be curating the line-up again. That’s where I’ve been putting a lot of my energy over the last six months. The line-up is…

This was originally posted on my own site. I’m sure you’ve heard the law of the instrument: when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. There’s another side to it. If you’re selling hammers, you’ll depict a world full of nails. Recent hammers include cryptobollocks and…

This was originally posted on my own site. I was up in Edinburgh for the past few days at the Design It; Build It conference. I was supposed to come back on Saturday but then the train strikes were announced so I changed my travel plans to avoid crossing a…

This was originally posted on my own site. There are two kinds of time-travel stories. There are time-travel stories that explore the many-worlds hypothesis. Going back in time and making a change forks the universe. But the universe is constantly forking anyway. So effectively the time travel is a kind…

This was originally posted on my own site. I did an episode of the Clearleft podcast on innovation a while back: Everyone wants to be innovative …but no one wants to take risks. The word innovation is often bandied about in an unquestioned positive way. But if we acknowledge that…

This was originally posted on my own site. Web performance is an unalloyed good. No one has ever complained that a website is too fast. So the benefit is pretty obvious. Users like fast websites. But there are other benefits to web performance. And they don’t all get equal airtime. Business …

This was originally posted on my own site. Spring is arriving. It’s just taking its time. There are little signs. Buds on the trees. The first asparagus of the year. Daffodils. Changing the clocks. A stretch in the evenings. But the weather remains, for the most part, chilly and grim. …

This was originally posted on my own site. While I’m talking about the SVGs on The Session, I thought I’d share something else related to the rendering of the sheet music. Like I said, I use the brilliant abcjs JavaScript library. It converts ABC notation into sheet music on the…

This was originally posted on my own site. Two weeks ago, I wrote: I woke up today to a very annoying new bug in Firefox. The browser shits the bed in an unpredictable fashion when rounding up single pixel line widths in SVG. That’s quite a problem on The Session…