The Daily Report
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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…
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Cloudy With A Chance of Blueballs
I RECENTLY SHARED a positive view of what’s happening at Adobe. I’m still a huge fan of the company’s image editing software, and I remain optimistic about their new direction. But I’m unhappy about the…
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This is a Website
LAST NIGHT at dinner, my friend Tantek Çelik (and if you don’t know who he is, learn the history of your craft) lamented that there was no longer any innovation in blogging—and hadn’t been for…
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An Event Apart San Francisco – Live
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Design Is A Relationship
MIKE MONTEIRO is a man on a mission. He wants to improve design by fixing the core of it, which is the relationship between designer and client. Too many of us fear our clients—the people…
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Intelligent Interfaces: Fantastical Designer Michael Simmons
IN Episode ? 105 of The Big Web Show on Mule Radio, I talk with Michael Simmons, co-creator of the Fantastical app (#1 Apple Store app), about iOS 7, designing Fantastical, reinventing calendar software, staying…
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Blue Beanie Day is Coming!
ALL IT TAKES is a toque and a dream. Join your fellow web designers and developers around the world on Saturday, 30 November 2013, as we march in virtual solidarity in support of web standards.…
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Animate This: Val Head on CSS, Pittsburgh, and The Big Web Show
DESIGNER/DEVELOPER Val Head and I discuss her new book A Pocket Guide to CSS Animations (Five Simple Steps, 2013); the Web Design Day conference; working as a hired gun; JavaScript and CSS animation; the great…
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An Event Apart 2014 Schedules Posted
IT’S NOT NEWS that all eight An Event Apart conferences in 2014 are open for registration. But this is new: we’ve now published complete schedules and speaker lineups for the first three shows of the…