I’m not someone who keeps a lot of memorabilia, but I do have a large collection of conference badges. Most of these are from events I spoke at, and a few from other memorable events. While decorating my new garden office I decided to pin them to a corkboard. It turned out that I had … Over 15 years of conference speaking
For most of my career I ran a very small company. When you run a tiny company your resources (both time and money) are limited, and you want to use them on the things that will have the most impact. You have to quickly stop doing things that aren’t cost-effective, to avoid “throwing good money … Where’s the holistic AI productivity data?
I don’t post to or visit the social network formerly known as Twitter, but as a very early Twitter user, I can’t quite bring myself to delete all my old posts. There’s so much history there, not just personal history but the stories of a lot of the work I’ve done. This is the problem … Joining the atmosphere
In 2004 I published the first edition of The CSS Anthology with Sitepoint. The idea for the book was to take the entire CSS 2.1 specification, and come up with 101 examples to show people how to use all of the CSS that existed. I have a copy on my shelf, but recently discovered you … What would a 2026 CSS Anthology look like?
I had a few days off work last week. My daughter was visiting, and in the evening we sat and watched episodes of Being Gordon Ramsey, a documentary series following the chef as he opens a huge restaurant project in London. It’s an interesting watch, but the thing that comes across through every word and … The importance of people who care
My social feed has divided mostly into two camps—those who can now only talk about how excited they are about AI, and those who are refusing to use it at all. I’m somewhat bemused by both of these positions, I see LLMs as a useful tool, in the way that I see spreadsheets as a … Do you need AI for that?
Last week I spoke at the very lovely Web Day Out in Brighton. My talk was about browser support, based on the work I’ve done over the past almost five years on Baseline. I ran through the various things you need to consider when deciding whether to use features that don’t meet your Baseline target. … Look into the future of the web platform
Some thoughts about managing a publishing pipeline in a world of generative AI.
I concluded my 2024 review post by saying that I hoped to make the move back to the North of England in 2025. The event that defined 2025 (other than my 50th birthday!) is that I managed to do just that, and I’m writing this post from a little town in Northumberland, where I’ve been … 2025 in review
I’ve been an amateur genealogist since I was a teenager. I started before the internet existed. This was a world where finding a single fact about a not-too-distant ancestor could involve an entire day of hauling huge indexes off shelves, then waiting five days for the certificate to arrive. It was time-consuming and expensive. As … A matter of fact