GAAD 2025
This past Thursday marked the 14th annual Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD). In honour of the event, London Web Standards held a series of accessibility-focused talks at the University of Greenwich.
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All Day Hey! 2025
I left home at 5h30 and got back around 22h. A seven-hour round trip transit for eight hours of the All Day Hey! 2025 Conference. Worth it? Yes. Would I do it again? Dear god, not like that. Some Leeds-based accommodation would have to be involved.
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State of the Browser 2025
One of the joys of working in web development is a lot of content relevant to your interests ends up, well, on the web. In particular, a lot of conferences offer online tickets. 99 times out of 100, I go online. But yesterday, I attended State of the Browser in person.
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Digital Marie Kondo
All these articles popping up about how to delete Facebook and Twitter reminded me I’ve been meaning to do that for years.
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CSS and Child-Proofing
I’ve watched my sister put out a beautiful display of perfectly non-choke-able sized toys and games for her 18-month-old child to play with. Know what the Kid does?
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Inheritance Theming with CSS Properties
I've seen a huge benefit in switching from selector-based to inheritance-based theming at work. CSS custom properties have been the key to unlocking a more flexible and scalable system.
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My CSS Mindset
I used to have Tim Gunn's catchphrase in my head during CSS development. A steady, insistent echo of “Make it work” encouraged me to brute force a lot of styles into place, condemning myself to a frustrating cycle of fixing something here only to find it was now broken there.
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Thoughts on International Women's Day
I have mixed thoughts on International Women's Day, perhaps best encapsulated by the gender pay gap bot that notes discrepancies between a company's social media messages and real-world actions.
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IndieWeb-ification
This is a catch-all post for a bunch of miscellaneous updates I've been meaning to do since last April: rel=me, microformatting, RSS, and garden bird themes.
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A vanilla personal site
I rebuild my personal site every few years. This time, I decided I wanted to go as minimal as possible. It's been the most enjoyable iteration.
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