theAdhocracy
Should there be an HTTP error code for censorship? Quite probably and I agree with Terence that 403 (forbidden) is a misleading response. I really like his various proposals and the format he uses is …
CSS? Fonts? Italics? Sidebars? What witchcraft is this? Is this not theAdhocracy, the home of plain HTML and nothing more (despite the clear problems associated with that)? Well: yes! But at …
Standard workday, standard work lunch catching up on RSS feeds. Of course, quite a few of them are discussing the leaked "Anti-Diversity" manifesto from the, now infamous, ex-Google employee (name …
Last night I did something incredibly simple which I have been terrified of doing for four months: I uploaded a photograph I took during our time on …
I have been taking part in Google Rewards for over a year now. For the most part, I complete the various surveys to feed an ongoing habit without feeling like I'm being too indulgent or wasting …
It is Christmas Eve and the penultimate week of the New 52 challenge! There's a nice symmetry to that, which, of course, is why I picked today to write a post... and nothing to do with it being the …
I was recently given a new laptop at work (🥳), but failed to realise that my Git author details weren't syncing correctly with GitHub for almost a month... 🤦 Rather than simply accept those white squares, I decided to rewrite the repository history. The process turns out to be quite simple, but I still hit several snags so figured it could be useful to document my fixes and errors.
I keep running into the same problem: how to set a style attribute in the CMS and have that be dynamically rendered on the front-end, without relying on inline styles. Turns out it's a great use case for CSS variables!
Static sites don't make search functionality easy, but luckily there are some excellent services that do. I've been messing around with Algolia and finally have it working with Craft and Gatsby the way I want it... on the backend, at least.
Well, it only took about a week of dazed puzzling, data tables, and tearing my hair out in clumps, but I think I may finally have a rough content taxonomy for theAdhocracy. A rough first version, that is. Let me explain...
The search page is live, the index is populated, but it all looked a bit rubbish and it didn't quite work as well as I wanted. Now it's using custom-styled components, queries are tracked/stored via the URL for persistence, and you can filter results based on category.
Having hooked up Algolia with my Gatsby build pipeline and populated a search index from my Craft CMS API, the next step was the build a frontend UI to enable users to actually query my posts. It turned out to be a pretty simple process.
YouTube embeds can be expensive on page load metrics, but what alternative is there? How about loading a thumbnail that hot-swaps itself for an <iframe> when clicked? Sounds great, but wouldn't …
An overview of JS promises for all skill levels. Starts with an excellent analogy of thread-blocking as …
Marketing needs versus user experience is a topic that I have some deep misgivings over, but a recent post made me want to try and boil some of those thoughts down into their underlying rationale. I'm not sure I totally succeeded, but there we go.
The three words that spawned the world wide web as we know it; the response from Tim Berners-Lee's supervisor to Tim's initial proposal. Jeremy's talk dives into the history of how the web came to …
A partial response to Marty and yet further interesting thoughts on what the term "webmention" has come to mean, and what the technology could …
What a wonderful analogy of the web in 2020. Social media, Big Tech, IndieWeb, cosy web, all bundled together with flowing …
Making the case for the title UI Engineer as a meaningful descriptor for those of us that consider our work in front-of-the-front-end terms.
Cher has written an excellent, concise, and extremely evenly-handed response to the current Tech Twitter™ nonsense. I wanted to save it (alongside Andy's) to refer to next time this happens …
Chris reviews their thoughts on the infamous Great Divide article, with some useful additional nuance. Also, isn't it fun to see a blog post response to a blog post …
A quick (and dirty) way to fetch local data from a JSON file and modify the look of a page in Astro, completely natively.
I've been saying for a couple of years that we are on the brink of a "fluid design" revolution in front-end development, similar to what happened around the late 2000s with "responsive design". …
A brilliant deep-dive into the subtle psychological manipulation that occurs when interacting with LLMs and other so-called "AI" tools and the parallels inherent with con-artist tricks such as …
An open-source tool for API testing, with automatic type safety baked in and a much more advanced output UI that highlights contained images, code blocks, messaging etc. whilst still providing the …
I think automatically pumping every article saved to Readwise through an LLM is a bad idea. Luckily, you can turn that feature off!
For many folks writing or sharing art on the open web in 2024, the rise of corporate theft under the guise of "AI" has become a real sticking point. I share these sentiments, though have yet to start …
A look back over 2024, a year dominated by travel and friends ‒ and, particularly, travel WITH friends!