Nice break from the screen for some 🏄

to be clear: websites are rad — apps are ritualistic sacrifices made to further the endless and insatiable desires of the centralization of capital

This sounds lovely, James is always a lovely person to speak to about websites, blogging, and whatever really! I'll need to give this a listen!

Fun fact: the magical child safety solution which Jess Philips cited in her resignation letter is a vendor-specific offering, which benefited from an intense PR and lobbying campaign, and was previously praised by ... Prince Andrew. I always keep the receipts. heatherburns.tech/2026/02/20/t...

@viewportconf.org Got a wee typo in your og:description description there! 👀💩

🏆 It’s official: The Edinburgh Minute is the best local newsletter in the world! A Berlin postcard from me at @inmaorg.bsky.social in Berlin here: www.edinburghminute.com/officially-t... Back to normal tomorrow from 7am 💌

Just home from the wonderful #AllDayHey conference! It was a fantastic day, with some brilliant talks, awesome people speaking and attending, and overall an absolute blast! I was so thankful to be able to speak, especially at the last one. SO much love and thanks to the @heypresents.com team. ❤️

Oh my gosh yes @alistairshepherd.uk has the bourbon!!! My favourite biscuit. And now presenting: Bill and Ted's Accessibility Adventure. These are incredibly fun slides parodying Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure from back in the 80s. #AllDayHey

Thanks for the warm reception @heypresents.com, here's a link to my slides and bonus resources! accud.io/bill-and-ted #AllDayHey

If you're at @heypresents.com today, come find me and say hi! You won't be able to miss me 😅

For those in Scotland and Wales, and with local elections in England and NI go vote! My Scottish poll prediction is that the ground opens up and swallows Hollywood, and a swarm of bees comes out of the aftermath.

Brb just got an email from the boss

Leeds-bound for @heypresents.com! Time for some slide amends 👀

Current AI custom prompt: Answer with complete detailed, specific answers. Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can.

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Two days to go. Who's joining us? What a line-up we've got in store 👀 heypresents.com/conferences/...

It's the last ever All Day Hey this week and somehow there's still tickets. Can't be many tho, so don't miss it. Who's going?! heypresents.com/conferences/...

Currently at 973 sites on PersonalSit.es. Come on! Submit your site! Lets get this thing to a thousand! Haven't got a personal site? No worries. Go make one (then submit it)! #IndieWeb #SmallWeb

I just had an MRI for the first time, what an odd experience and sensation! Despite my entirely baseless worry it turns out I don't have a secret lump of metal inside of me. Note to self for next time, when offered the music choice of "we've got pop or Fleetwood Mac", pick Fleetwood Mac lol

Exceptional writing here from @wil.to, definitely recommend reading! Responsive images is probably the hardest web functionality I've ever had to teach so not only is is great to get easier but also great to hear the backstory!

Next Thursday. A curated conference for curious developers, designers, and technology leaders. Last few tickets available: ti.to/hey-presents...

Back Build Awesome Pro to help us add superpowers to your static site: www.kickstarter.com/projects/fon...

Delighted to be launching Fraude Design: the AI-free site builder for genius founders. For too long, making bad decisions with horrendous amounts of technical debt was limited to founders with an AI license. No more! Now you can make slop without the token usage! fraude.design

I wrote about why I quit my job, and how weird and tiring tech feels these days.

If you want to join us for the free 10 week online web development bootcamp, there's no application or signup. Just check badwebsite.club for the schedule and start learning with us. Don't need a bootcamp? You still so welcome to join us for the launch party and/or any expert guest livestreams!

2 WEEKS TO GO! 🎙️ 8 industry-focused talks 🔖 Curated single-track programme 📍 Everyman Cinema, Leeds, UK ☕ Top notch indie tea & coffee 💻 Free co-working for all attendees 🧃 Post-event networking with social

sizes="auto" landed in Firefox 150, making responsive images simpler and more reliable. Here's when you can use it, and how…

Celebrating ten years of hosting over 80 international speakers and talks, 2,500 attendees and 7,500 coffees all wrapped up in 1 brilliant community. Will you be joining us?

Not long until @heypresents.com now, so I'm pleased @cassiecodes.bsky.social called to figure out some of the beefier details.

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The British and their Health and Safe Tea:

Who's coming then? Let's give this event the send-off it deserves

I went to see my first football game in 20 years this evening, the Scotland vs Belgium Women's world cup qualifiers. It was actually a great time and I got really into it! I thought I didn't like football, I think actually I just don't like Men ('s football)

China's internet is shaped by censorship and strict regulations – insulated from the rest of the world, but not completely isolated. This is the second of three posts I’m publishing this week about China, censorship, and technology: vale.rocks/posts/chinas... #China #Censorship #InternetFreedom

startups are the uwu smol bean (derogatory) of corporations

85% of tickets have been sold. We're exactly ONE month away. Celebrating ten years of All Day Hey! with our final conference.

April 5 @comicss.art game: HTML Mini-Crossword comicss.art/games/19/ Today's game is an HTML-themed HTML-shaped crossword. And it's easy(-ish). Can you guess all 15 words? #html #css #webdev #game #crossword

Many people with far greater knowledge than I possess have discussed accessibility overlays, but I think the more voices and inputs in the public corpus the better. Accessibility overlays are harmful and make things worse, not better. Avoid them. vale.rocks/posts/access... #Accessibility #a11y

All I want for my birthday is no April's fools jokes 🙏

Over the past 19 years, my team @cloudfour.com have shared over 600 articles and resources with the #WebDesign community, absolutely free. But now, our design practice is in danger without your help. Please read and share: cloudfour.com/thinks/more-... #OpenToWork #UXDesign #UIDesign

This month my project Async Alpine hit 4yrs old, and about the same time 200k downloads! 📈 It doesn't feel like long ago I went for a swim and had the idea for conditional component loading for Alpine.js and threw something together. If you use Alpine.js check it out: async-alpine.dev

now on the blog, hopefully slightly more gracefully-worded.

I've been pretty checked out of the dev community for a while due to a crazy amount of *life*. I want to get back into it a little more! I just scrapped my 'life update' blog post that went into a lot of detail on why, but for my sake I still want to put it out there on socials. (1/3)

Another new blog post! 😁 This is about my experience with the Loop Switch 2 earplugs. Not dev-related, but still probably helpful to many people! TLDR — I really like them, although their claim you can use them in conversation doesn't ring true for me. alistairshepherd.uk/writing/16-m...

Salma has written and recorded possibly one of the best descriptions I've found for what I'm feeling right now going on in the tech industry. I implore you to read or listen to this, whether you find this relatable or not, as it says so much about why the tech industry is so toxic right now.

6 weeks today I'll be speaking at the wonderful All Day Hey by @heypresents.com in Leeds, with my talk "Bill and Ted's accessibility adventure"! 🎸🤘 Come join us for a *most excellent* day, with some great talks and great people! Tickets & more info: heypresents.com/conferences/...

New blog post! 🥳 It's about using Goatcounter for small projects as a simple and cheap analytics tool that's pretty good privacy-wise compared to other options. This post has been sitting in my drafts since September last year. 😅 alistairshepherd.uk/writing/simp...

What a good read. I've had lots of thoughts about my relationship with technology and social media lately so this came at the perfect time. www.terrygodier.com/the-last-qui...