2022 in numbers
One year on adactio.com, complete with sparklines.
Journal archive: 2022
91
Words I wrote in 2022
A handpicked selection of blog posts.
Music in 2022
It was all about the sessions.
Books I read in 2022
Mostly (science) fiction this year.
An Event Apart
It was for people who make websites. It was also very special.
Leading Design San Francisco 2023
I’ll be hosting the event and I’d love to see you there!
Jamie
I’m going to miss my friend.
Tweaking navigation labelling
Is it okay if URLs and labels are out of sync?
Links for Declarative Design
Categorised hyperlinks that have been condensed into my new talk for An Event Apart.
UX London 2023
It’s back! And if you hurry, you can grab a super early-bird ticket now.
Tweaking navigation sizing
Sometimes a consistent interface doesn’t reflect the reality of usage.
Portability
The dream of the 2000s is alive on the web.
That fediverse feeling
Mastodon is a vibe shift in the best possible way.
Syndicating to Mastodon
Posting notes from my own website to my Mastodon account.
Artemis rising
Witnessing a rocket launch at night from a hundred miles away.
Negativity bias
The View Transitions API glass is way more full than it is empty.
Time for transitions
The View Transitions API (formerly Shared Element Transitions) could be the best or worst thing to happen to the web in years.
Do You Like Rock Music?
A little story of three Brighton bands.
Overloading buttons
Can you have too much semantics?
Prepping
The difference between hosting a conference and speaking at a conference.
In person
dConstruct, Web Dev Conf, and State Of The Browser.
JavaScript
Inside me there are two wolves. They’re both JavaScript.
Knowing
The curse of knowledge of cryptobollocks.
The audio from dConstruct 2022
Have a listen on the dConstruct Archive.
Supporting logical properties
Using the CSS trinity of feature queries, logical properties, and unset.
Design systems thinking
Do you have a design system or do you have a design analytical?
Accessibility is systemic
The difference between inclusive design and accessibility.
Let’s get logical
Let me hear your blocky talk.
That was dConstruct 2022
The last ever dConstruct.
Sunday
A day of idleness.
One day to dConstruct
Twenny twenny twenny four hours to go-oh-oh!
dConstruct update
There’s a change to the line-up. We’re going to have twice the Sebs.
Work ethics
Don’t work hard.
The schedule for dConstruct 2022
Here’s how the day will play out—you won’t want to miss it!
No code
Serious business or tools for online expression?
Alternative stylesheets
Why do browsers that don’t implement stylesheet switching still download alternative stylesheets?
Democratising dev
How do we share the means of the web’s production?
Directory enquiries
The tyranny of search.
The line-up for dConstruct 2022 …revealed!
Eight fantastic people who are going to provoke, entertain, and stimulate you.
Control
Trying to understand a different mindset to mine.
Scale
Temperature and music.
Subscribing to newsletters
But not like that.
The line-up for dConstruct 2022
Shall we play a game? If you’re first to figure out the line-up, you get a free ticket.
Negative
Have negative result, will travel.
Two books
A Ghost In The Throat and No One Is Talking About This.
UX FOMO
Missing out on the event I curated.
On reading
Words on screens. Words on paper.
Talking about style
The transcript of a talk.
Positive
It was inevitable really.
Backup
Making Keynote files with no fonts.
CSS Day 2022
Excellent as always.
Declarative design systems
Is your design system really a system …or is it more like a collection of components?
Re-evaluating technology
The importance of revisiting past decisions. Especially when it comes to the web.
dConstruct 2022 is happening!
September 9th at the Duke of York’s in Brighton—be there!
Alt writing
Aiming for originality and creativity in alt text.
Pace layers and design principles
I suppose it was inevitable that I would smush these two things together.
The complete line-up for UX London
Emma Parnell, Videha Sharma, Amir Ansari, John Bevan, Alastair Somerville and Trenton Moss complete the roster.
Situational awereness
Going out is still a risk, but one I’m willing to take more and more.
UX London should be your off-site
Your team deserves some fun in the sun at the end of June.
Image previews with the FileReader API
Adding `alt` text to uploaded images.
Agile design principles
I like your manifesto, let’s put it to the test-o.
Even more UX London speaker updates
Irina Rusakova, Cennydd Bowles, Chris How, Lou Downe, and Giles Turnbull.
Bugblogging
Also, tipblogging.
Suspicion
Responses to my thoughts on why developers would trust third-party code more than a native browser feature.
Trust
I’m trying to understand why developers would trust third-party code more than a native browser feature.
Speaking at CSS Day 2022
I’ve prepared some links to go with the talk.
TEDxBrighton 2022
A great day at the Brighton Dome (only slightly marred by some cryptobollocks).
More UX London speaker updates
Aleks Melnikova, Stephanie Marsh, Kat Zhou, Sarah Winters, and Adekunle Oduye.
Upcoming events
A return to in-person gatherings in Düsseldorf, Leeds, Amsterdam, Bristol and London.
Declarative design
Defining the inputs instead of trying to control the outputs.
69420
Nice URIs don’t change.
Starting and finishing
Some advice for public speaking.
UX London speaker updates
Steph Troeth, Heldiney Pereira, Lauren Pope, Laura Yarrow, and Inayaili León.
Eventing
Leading Design New York, Design It Build It Edinburgh, and UX Camp Brighton.
Hosting Leading Design New York
A humbling experience at an excellent conference.
Going to New York
I’ll be hosting the Leading Design conference next week—exciting!
When should there be a declarative version of a JavaScript API?
If the JavaScript API requires a user gesture, maybe it’s time for a new button type.
Web notifications on iOS
The number one feature request I have for mobile Safari is web notifications (even if I won’t personally use them).
A bug with progressive web apps on iOS
Opening an external link in a web view appears to trigger a reload of the parent page without credentials.
Both plagues on your one house
February, man.
Curating UX London 2022
Crafting a three-day conference line-up.
02022-02-22
Losing an eleven year bet.
Announcing UX London 2022
The digital design festival is back—live and in-person!
Fonts or food?
A quiz.
2.5.6
My response to the Competition and Markets Authority’s mobile ecosystems market study interim report.
Screenshots
Filing an issue for the lazy web. Somebody build this!
Installing progressive web apps
How I’m letting people know they can install The Session to their home screens.
Partnering with Google on web.dev
How Clearleft worked with the Chrome team to create a fifteen-part course on modern responsive design.
Media queries with display-mode
I never would’ve known about the `display-mode` media feature if I hadn’t been writing about it.
Today, the distant future
2022 was once unimaginable to some web folks.
2021
A look back at another strange year.