Note archive: April, 2018

Reading Close To The Machine: Technophilia And Its Discontents by Ellen Ullman.

Brightonians—come on down to The Brunswick in Hove this evening to see @SalterCane. A splendid time is guaranteed for all.

https://saltercane.com/tidings/55

They sat there in the evening of the last day. And, though there was no actual point to it, they loved each other.

— The Best Of Richard Matheson

Chatting with @CassieCodes earlier, it turns out she was there back in 2012 when I interviewed @LaurenBeukes, @JeffNoon, and @BrianAldiss — Brighton is a small world! http://brightonsf.adactio.com

Reading The Best of Richard Matheson edited with an introduction by Victor LaValle.

Dealing with a mixed language document, this is working out nicely for small screens:

[lang="de"] {
    hyphens: auto;
}

A good start.

body {
    font-size: calc(0.8em + 1vw);
    line-height: calc(1.4em + 1vh);
    margin: 7.5vmin;
}

Sitting in Ada’s Technical Bookstore in Seattle, I can’t help but overhear the people behind me discussing display: contents and I really want to point them to @ireaderinokun’s latest post on bitsofco.de

Sang karaoke with @grigs. The song was Jackson. I was June to his Johnny.

Related: @TorreCapistran sings as well as she live-blogs.

I think @TorreCapistran is clearly the Most Valuable Player at @AnEventApart Seattle—she’s a live-blogging machine!

https://hookedoncode.com/category/an-event-apart-2018/

“If you only do one thing for mobile, make it these three things…”

—@feather

I’ve written a book about service workers for web designers! It’s called Going Offline and it’s available to pre-order now:

https://abookapart.com/products/going-offline

Phew! I managed to liveblog every single talk today at @AnEventApart Seattle:

https://adactio.com/tags/aeasea2018

I think I’ve earned a beer.

(So has @TorreCapistran http://bit.ly/aeaintrinsic )

I’m live-blogging: https://adactio.com/journal/13663

So is @LukeW: https://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1988

So is @TorreCapistran: https://hookedoncode.com/2018/04/beyond-engagement-the-content-performance-quotient-jeffrey-zeldman/

“Remember when we had blogrolls in our sidebars? …Remember sidebars?”

— @Zeldman

In hindsight, having Easter Sunday coincide with April Fool’s Day makes total sense. That whole crucification/resurrection gag was a solid prank.

The apostles on Good Friday: “Jesus is dead! Oh, no!”

Jesus on Easter Sunday: “Gotcha!”

Starting to feel that everything depicted in the Wim Wenders film Until the End of the World is coming true (time-shifted a couple of decades), including the re-entry of Tiangong-1.