The Daily Report
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The Gory Details
SO MY DAD had another seizure—it’s been about six months since the last one; nobody knows what causes them or how to prevent them. It was 4:00 AM Monday morning. He fell heavily, like a…
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A Temporary Reprieve
MY PHONE SHOWED three consecutive voicemails from my dad’s wife. I told myself, this can only mean one thing. Fortunately, it meant something else. You know your father is getting on in years when a…
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Achieving Empathy for Institutions with Anil Dash
IN BIG WEB SHOW ? 115 on Mule Radio, I talk with Anil Dash, a hugely influential entrepreneur, blogger, and web geek living in NYC. Things we discuss include: How government, media, and tech shape…
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Designing and Developing “The Web at 25” Website
IN BIG WEB SHOW ? 114 on Mule Radio, designer Mike Pick and front-end developer Tim Murtaugh talk to me about how they created The Web at 25 website for the W3C in just five…
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Evolving Responsive Web Design
In What We Mean When We Say “responsive” and Defining Responsiveness, Lyza Danger Gardner and Jason Grigsby cut to the heart of a disagreement I had three years ago with Ethan Marcotte, the creator of…
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From Britain With Love: Front-end Style Guides with Anna Debenham
IN BIG WEB SHOW ? 113, developer Anna Debenham and I discuss Adventure Time, Code For America, starting a web career at age 14, checking websites in game console browsers, producing 24 Ways, and the…
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They Made Me a Criminal
THE JAIL DOOR SLAMMED and I was left in a women’s holding cell with seven teenage girls. There were no benches so we sat on the floor. I was fifteen but looked twelve. With long…
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Big Web Show ? 112: Responsive Images Get Real with Mat Marquis
THE GOAL of a “responsive images” solution is to deliver images optimized for the end user’s context, rather than serving the largest potentially necessary image to everyone. Unfortunately, this hasn’t been quite so simple in…
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Big Web Show ? 111: Web Design Comes of Age with Andrew Clarke
IN BIG WEB SHOW ? 111, Andrew Clarke and I discuss ten years of web design history, approaches to public speaking, running a successful freelance design business, the importance of writing, CSS3 easter eggs, growing…
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Big Web Show ? 110: CSS and JavaScript: Can’t We All Just Get Along?
IN BIG WEB SHOW ? 110, Nicole Sullivan and I discuss CSS Conf, building scalable systems that won’t break, designing for speed and performance, learning Ruby, Object Oriented CSS, a CSS Style Guide, Type-o-matic, practical…
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The Page, The Stage
EVERY YEAR I give a new talk at An Event Apart. And every year I panic. After nearly two decades, public speaking no longer frightens me. But deciding what needs to be said gets tougher,…
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Big Web Show ? 109: Bring Me The Head of Tim Berners-Lee
IN BIG WEB SHOW ? 109, Robin Berjon and I enjoy a calm, rational conversation about EME, DRM, the MPAA, and the W3C. Enjoy. The episode was sponsored by Squarespace. Links mentioned: “Please Bring Me…
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The joy of content creation (and the hazards of building in someone else’s sandbox)
AN INSPIRING STORY of content creation, which is also, although this particular tale ends happily, a warning about the hazards of building in someone else’s sandbox. Stampylongnose? makes wonderful videos about Minecraft? (among other things)…
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It’s 2014. Is Web Design Dead?
IN A RECENT article on his website, Web Standards Killed the HTML Star, designer Jeff Croft laments the passing of the “HTML and CSS ‘guru’” as a viable long-term professional position and urges his fellow…
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The Black Hole of The Valley
STOP ME if you’ve heard this one: Guy goes into a venture capital firm, borrows money. Uses money to turn neat idea into product. Gives away product (or sells well below cost) to build a…