Note archive: October, 2021

Reading back over this candygram I wrote for @JasonSantaMaria’s site ten years ago and getting all nostalgiac:

https://v5.jasonsantamaria.com/articles/monkey-nuts-barmbrack-and-apples/

Just heard the very sad news about @BillWScott.

Such a lovely chap! I have very fond memories of chatting with him after seeing one of his excellent talks back in 2008: https://adactio.com/journal/1426

Growing up in Ireland, I remember the parking rules being very clear:

• A yellow line means you can’t park there at all.
• A double yellow line means you can’t park there at all, at all.

Ah, Galway! That was the last place I went before Covid shut everything down:

https://adactio.com/journal/16518

Thanks! I highly recommend Learning Web Design by @Jenville

https://learningwebdesign.com/

Here are some more resources I’ve gathered:

https://adactio.com/tags/learning,beginner

Some of my faves:

• CSS shadows https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/designing-shadows/ by @JoshWComeau
• CSS cascade https://wattenberger.com/blog/css-cascade by @Wattenberger
• Anything by @BCiechanowski https://ciechanow.ski/archives/

Reading Binti: The Night Masquerade by Nnedi Okorafor.

Going to London. brb

Just had the first @SalterCane practice in 18 months this morning—that felt good!

(I noticed that @SeaPowerBand were back in the practice space too.)

This Bandcamp page: https://aidanconnolly.bandcamp.com/

…is scraped for the image on this page: https://thesession.org/recordings/7413

Here’s a gist: https://gist.github.com/adactio/aa46506fc7c28f18f0feeffe0276a4a7

I scrape Bandcamp artist pages to get images and links for pages like this: https://thesession.org/recordings/7413

(Bandcamp has an API but not for public data.)

Yes!!!

JavaScript should only do what only JavaScript can do.

https://adactio.com/journal/15559

I’m writing a whole bunch about responsive design at the moment so that’s where my head is at right now. Happy to chat over video anytime.

(if you’d like to chat, my email is jeremy at clearleft dot com)

Bom dia, Lisboa!

Going to Lisbon. brb

Reading Let It Go: My Extraordinary Story — From Refugee to Entrepreneur to Philanthropist by Dame Stephanie Shirley.

Welcome to Brighton!!!

I think you might like the most recent episode of the @Clearleft podcast. 🙂

https://podcast.clearleft.com/season03/episode05/

Maybe @BenBrignell’s https://principles.design/?

That’s the same thought process I’ve used in the past and I came to the same conclusions. Reassuring to hear it’s not just me!

The Russian actor is on her way to the space station.

I feel like this should’ve been a David Bowie song.

You know what book they didn’t read at Facebook?

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

Don’t be like Facebook.

Here are some I’ve linked to in the past:

https://adactio.com/links/tags/sci-fi,short,story

Here’s what I’m reading right now:

https://grist.org/fix/series/imagine-2200-climate-fiction/

I use https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/ for testing the robustness of the HTTPS connection, and I use https://securityheaders.com/ for testing how well HTTP headers are set up.