Michael R. Lorek
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Online Design Consultant
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London Web Standards
about 2 months ago
We have a diversity scheme for State of the Browser. This is for Students, people new to our industry, people from under-represented groups, unemployed, or anyone who feels they fit (we don't ask for proof we just trust people)
2026.stateofthebrowser.com/tickets/#div...
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Tickets | State of the Browser
More information and buying options for tickets.
https://2026.stateofthebrowser.com/tickets/#diversity-tickets
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What power structures are inherent to the field of computer-generated art? ‘1965 + 60 Years of Algorithmic Art with Computers,’ a talk by Emma Gerhard and Frieder Nake, 6.15pm GMT live from
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streaming.media.ccc.de/39c3/zero/
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Inspiration Station
https://streaming.media
about 2 months ago
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Coming up: The Art of Text (Rendering) w/ Nicolas Rougier at 10:00 GMT
#Typography
#39c3
fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/202...
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https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2025/fahrplan/event/the-art-of-text-rendering
about 2 months ago
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Time to RESET Time for a New Power Cycle The 39th Chaos Communication Congress
#39c3
is about to start, with a plethora of insightful live streamed talks on security, society, bollocktics, art and tech to come ….
fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/202...
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Fahrplan - 39C3
https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2025/fahrplan/
about 2 months ago
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With border control and custom sorted, i believe this St Pancras International platform is already Europe, even its Central at London. When coming off the train Amsterdam Centraal in only 4 hours there won’t be any more checks ….
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Richard Rutter
3 months ago
The Web Day Out line-up is finalised! It's a conference all about the latest advances in
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webdayout.com
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Web Day Out in Brighton, March 12th 2026
A one-day event all about what you can do in web browsers today!
https://webdayout.com
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If digital sustainability is your mission, why not join us for Green IO in London next week. I do have a spare ticket, so please DM me if you’d like to go.
greenio.tech/conference/1...
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London Conference September 23 & 24 2025
The Green IO Conference London on September 23 & 24 2025 in partnership with apidays brings together industry leaders, innovators, and enthusiasts to discuss the pressing issues of IT sustainability a...
https://greenio.tech/conference/15/london-2025-september
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It’s so valuable attending Computing’s quite intimate annual IT Leaders Summit at One Moorgate. Shared insights without that vendor fluff on global technology challenges, workforce and societal obstacles makes it a truly inspiring event.
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With Green IO Conference in London already happening next week, I do still hold a spare ticket for this feast on sustainable IT. Please DM me if interested …
greenio.tech/conference/1...
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London Conference September 23 & 24 2025
The Green IO Conference London on September 23 & 24 2025 in partnership with apidays brings together industry leaders, innovators, and enthusiasts to discuss the pressing issues of IT sustainability a...
https://greenio.tech/conference/15/london-2025-september
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Anonymous
5 months ago
You think you’re free? Your brain’s a subscription service. Billionaires feed you dopamine and call it choice. Junk food. Infinite scroll. Nested systems built to mine your impulses and mold your identity. Welcome to the zoo. Cancel your conditioning.
#Resist
#EndOligarchy
#Anonymous
#Limitarianism
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The brain is like a muscle: you need to use it, or loose it.
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6 months ago
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Ruth EJ Booth (she/they)
6 months ago
"If your books were uploaded to LibGen/fed into the LLMs, add your name to the potential class action lawsuit by tomorrow." Details: LibDem database:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Attorney form:
www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...
(This information comes via a reliable Discord source.)
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Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/search-libgen-data-set/682094/
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I can’t wait seeing features filtering out A.I. generated copy …
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7 months ago
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Bruce Lawson
7 months ago
The Verge asks, Where are the iPhone’s WebKit-less browsers?
www.theverge.com/news/706569/...
"Apple’s technical and financial hurdles make it unfeasible for browser developers like Google and Mozilla to port their engines to iOS, says OWA."
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Where are the iPhone’s WebKit-less browsers?
The OWA says Apple has too many barriers in place.
https://www.theverge.com/news/706569/apple-ios-iphone-alternative-browser-webkit-owa
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Wishing all gender-fluid individuals a most beautiful Non-Binary People’s Day.
#diversity
7 months ago
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Apparently, so many business owners do not carefully consider their chosen website technology when it comes to performance and sustainability. A Practical Guide to Sustainable Web Design w/ Matt Wheeler Tue 15 July 2-3pm.
www.tickettailor.com/events/westy...
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Select tickets – A Practical Guide to Sustainable Web Design – Zoom
Join us for an interactive webinar exploring how we can reduce the environmental impact of the web through thoughtful design an...
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/westyorkshirecombinedauthority3/1728561
7 months ago
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Rachel Andrew
8 months ago
Here's my monthly post on what's landed on the web platform with the browser releases during June. It's been another busy month!
web.dev/blog/web-pla...
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New to the web platform in June | Blog | web.dev
Discover some of the interesting features that have landed in stable and beta web browsers during June 2025.
https://web.dev/blog/web-platform-06-2025
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A Rage For / Against the Machine panel certainly provides a great conclusion after debating all day A.I. in research, creativity and UX design.
#HCID2025
#ParadigmShift
8 months ago
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8 months ago
How your website’s super cool interactive navigation system feels to use
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Penpot
8 months ago
We have so many updates and good news about the Figma to Penpot export plugin🎉 ✅Fully compatible with all the releases 📦Much lighter image handling ✏️Faster and more accurate vector translation 📂Exports in native .penpot format and much more! Learn everything!
community.penpot.app/t/figma-to-p...
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Figma To Penpot Export Plugin
🎉 Improvements to the Figma to Penpot migration plug-in! Hello everyone 👋 We’re excited to share the latest updates to the Penpot Exporter plug-in. Migrating between tools shouldn’t mean losing desi...
https://community.penpot.app/t/figma-to-penpot-export-plugin/5554/11?u=sonisl
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As designers, we play a vital role in navigating the rapid changes facing society. Next week's Human Computer Interaction Design conference provides a most insightful forum to discuss our current Paradigm Shift from technology (AI) to politics to climate.
hcidopenday.co.uk
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HCID Conference
https://hcidopenday.co.uk
8 months ago
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Jake Archibald
8 months ago
CSS uses a complex algorithm to decide how to animate transforms. If you get it wrong, as many folks do, you end up with an unnatural animation. Here's how it works, and how to avoid the pitfalls.
jakearchibald.com/2025/animati...
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Animating zooming using CSS: transform order is important… sometimes
How to get the right transform animation.
https://jakearchibald.com/2025/animating-zooming/
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Sacha Greif
9 months ago
The 2025 State of CSS survey is now open!
survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey...
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State of CSS 2025
Take the State of CSS survey
https://survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey/state-of-css/2025
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As external hard drives always come in M$-DOS default format, it’s very good practice to reformat into non-Microsoft to keep it more secure by performing a two-pass erase. But then as drives got bigger, it might take a few hours … *sigh*
9 months ago
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Penpot
9 months ago
You asked, we delivered!🫶 Design tokens starter kit by
@laurakalbag.bsky.social
Explore how different token types can be applied, try out the design tokens for yourself, or use this starter kit as a starting point for your own design system.I Let us know your feedback😍
penpot.app/penpothub/li...
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Penpot | Libraries & templates detail page
Build, share and choose your own plugins in Penpot.
https://penpot.app/penpothub/libraries-templates/desig-tokens-starter-kit
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Léonie Watson
9 months ago
Léonie Watson: The Privacy Principles are now a
#W3C
Statement:
www.w3.org/TR/2025/STMT...
#privacy
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Privacy Principles
Privacy is an essential part of the web. This document provides definitions for privacy and related concepts that are applicable worldwide as well as a set of privacy principles that should guide the ...
https://www.w3.org/TR/2025/STMT-privacy-principles-20250515/
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At the iconic historic IoD for One Executive Day discussion the finer aspects and implications of using AI and Low-Code to build enterprise grade applications …
9 months ago
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With Adobe Xd sadly dead and Figma out of control, Penpot appears to rescue website prototyping. Tonight surely will be that eye opener event when it comes to quality web design.
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9 months ago
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Semantic HTML belongs into primary school.
#Education
#WebStandards
9 months ago
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Steve Faulkner
9 months ago
Best kept secret: the IBM accessibility checker, blows other
#a11y
testing tools out of the water ✅ open source and well maintained ✅ Free and ad free ✅ multiple rulesets ✅ export results to excel
www.ibm.com/able/toolkit...
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Tools for different phases of your project.
https://www.ibm.com/able/toolkit/tools/#develop
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“The EU A.I. Act might be good for your organisation, even if you’re not obliged to use it”, recommends Duncan Brown from IDC.
10 months ago
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At The Biltmore in sunny Mayfair today for IDC’s Cybersecurity Summit discussing the darker aspects of internet technology.
10 months ago
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Another little step towards AI web content scraping prevention …
#Copyright
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10 months ago
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It’s quite fascinating when it comes to a panel on The Dark Side Of The Money that honestly absolutely no investors are in the room.
#Equity
#Investment
#RareFounders
10 months ago
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Léonie Watson
10 months ago
Take Action: Defend the Internet Archive
blog.archive.org/2025/04/17/t...
"At a time when digital information is disappearing, being rewritten, or erased entirely, the tools to preserve history must be defended—not dismantled." I've signed the petition.
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Take Action: Defend the Internet Archive | Internet Archive Blogs
https://blog.archive.org/2025/04/17/take-action-defend-the-internet-archive/
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Terence Eden
10 months ago
New blog post: You don't need an API key to archive Twitter Data
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/04/you-dont-need-an-api-key-to-archive-twitter-data/
Apparently there's no need for IP laws any more, so here's a way to archive high-fidelity Twitter data without signing up for an expensive API key. …
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You don't need an API key to archive Twitter Data
Apparently there's no need for IP laws any more, so here's a way to archive high-fidelity Twitter data without signing up for an expensive API key. This is perfect for academics wishing to preserve Tweets, journalists wanting to download evidence, or simply embedding content without leaking user data back to Twitter. Table of Contentstl;drBackgroundEmbed CodeAPI CallOptionsOutputTweet With ImageRepliesQuote TweetsDownloading MediaOther ExamplesLimitationsPython CodeHave Fun tl;dr You can…
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/04/you-dont-need-an-api-key-to-archive-twitter-data/
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Waking up late! Did someone manipulated the clock again?
11 months ago
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Without having to stay at a hotel, I’m so glad that there’s a very swift 06:33 LNER service from KingsX to Leeds, reaching my workshop already by 9am.
12 months ago
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Tammy Everts 🍁
12 months ago
This looks like a fantastic (and FREE!)
#a11y
workshop organized by the lovely folks at
@smashingmagazine.com
and featuring some *amazing* experts:
@stephaniewalter.bsky.social
@fossheim.bsky.social
Kardo Ayoub Sadly, I'm not able to attend, but you should!
smashingconf.com/meets-access...
#ux
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Smashing Meets — Friendly, inclusive, practical event for web designers and developers. — Meets Accessibility — February 20, 2025
Thursday, February 20, 2025, 8–11am PDT / 5–8pm CET, we are hosting a new edition of our online community event Smashing Meets. In this Meets we're hosting 3 amazing speakers who will talk about vario...
https://smashingconf.com/meets-accessibility
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Nikki Pilkington
about 1 year ago
Stop letting SEO tools dictate your content strategy. They’re guides, not gospel. If your content genuinely helps users and demonstrates expertise, you’re already ahead of competitors obsessing over perfect page scores.
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Forms Are Only Logical! Forms are the lifeblood of the web, and probably the most tricky when it comes to UX and security. Learn about form controls without JS and DOM manipulation in a talk by David Benson on Thu 20 Feb at JS Monthly meetup in Central London.
guild.host/events/jsmon...
#HTML
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JSMONTHLY FEBRUARY MEETUP | Guild
Feb 20th 6:00PM: This month we are hosting our event on Wednesday 20th of February Three amazing speakers will share their insights Schedu
https://guild.host/events/jsmonthly-february-meetup-0e7yql
about 1 year ago
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Would you give a government access to your calendar, your contacts, your photos, and all your documents stored in the cloud?
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about 1 year ago
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Harry Roberts
about 1 year ago
CSS is render- but not parser-blocking. This means that while a browser is fetching CSS, it is permitted to continue parsing the rest of your HTML but not render it. HOWEVER! If you’re not careful, you can inadvertently end up in parser-blocking territory.
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Jen Simmons
about 1 year ago
Working on new ideas for CSS — combine `flex-flow` + `grid-auto-flow` = space for new features… • `item-pack: collapse` to create masonry-style layouts • `item-pack: balance` to balance distribution of Flexbox items • `item-wrap: nowrap` to put all items on one line in Grid Thoughts?
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Bruce Lawson
about 1 year ago
Role Reverser a tiny utility that will replaces unsemantic HTML and ARIA roles with the simpler native HTML elements. By @
[email protected]
a11y-tools.com/role-reverser/
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Role Reverser - Change custom elements defined with roles to their native HTML equivalents
https://a11y-tools.com/role-reverser/
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Fascinating, I still haven’t even touched A.I.
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about 1 year ago
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Imagine a web without standards. Apparently most small businesses still haven’t heard about web standards but prioritising their website. Applying ethical principles in web design surely will lead to a better, more harmonious world ..
www.w3.org/TR/ethical-w...
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Ethical Web Principles
The web should be a platform that helps people and provides a positive social benefit. As we continue to evolve the web platform, we must therefore consider the consequences of our work. The following...
https://www.w3.org/TR/ethical-web-principles/
about 1 year ago
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Wes Bos
about 1 year ago
One of the biggest problems with UI development is about to be solved! Customizable <select> brings allows us to create totally custom dropdowns with HTML and CSS. Accessible, gracefully degrades and requires no JS! 4.5 min video explainer + demo →
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MA9W...
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‘Software should be soft, should work the way you want, not the others way around’, nicely says Ivan Zhao, Founder and CEO, Notion.
#MakeWithNotion
about 1 year ago
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Today’s Barcamp London XIII unconference grid is up, and I’m looking forward to my ‘Preserving Copyright by Preventing A.I. Content Scraping - Let’s Geek Out’ session. I assume it’ll be fun and most insightful …
#BCLxiii
about 1 year ago
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