Its been a while since I last spoke at an event but here we are!

Reigniting my blog and my first post contains references to The Shining and Toast of London 🤷‍♂️ Make of that what you will. kevinhealyclarke.co.uk/blog/2025/10...

We’re live!! My brand-new course, “Whimsical Animations”, is now available. 🥳🎉 whimsy.joshwcomeau.com I’m so excited to share all of my animation tools and techniques with y’all. 😄

Tonights our first night of putting in to action a new sleep routine for our infant, after 4ish months of heavily fractured sleep. 🤞

Scott has an important message about Mindful Design (piccalil.li/mindful-design ) for you www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik0a...

Show the world you’re a HTML or CSS programmer with our new t-shirts, hoodies and sweaters. piccalil.li/links/piccal...

Moving on from the long, slow eye roll, I’m stumped as to how a stylised Chrome browser and an AI experiment fit in to Atlassian’s product plans.

25 years ago. Bit o’ nostalgia for the old folks.

Finding moments to look in to Figma MCP <> Cursor for work stuff. What I’m looking at in particular is getting to a sweet spot where it identifies a component on Figma and pulls its coded counterpart correctly.

Hell yes! youtu.be/eyXGm8JCBrk?...

The ability to style grid and flex gaps is coming fast in a browser near you! Bubbling with ideas for what this will be useful for! Code: github.com/MicrosoftEdg...

Back when I was finding my feet in tech everybody was buzzing about building positive change. Somewhere along the way, something changed. Fortunately for us though, tech is not the first industry forced to defend itself against dubious practices. What might we learn if we were to look elsewhere?

A productive weekend of getting my digital life in order: - Feedbin replaces Feedly for everything RSS - Obsidian replaces Notion for notes and posts (IA Writer for longer form) - my old domain now properly redirects to kevinhealyclarke.co.uk (with a quick reskin, very much work in progress)

During my livestream yesterday, I talked about Figma Sites for a little bit. I've broken it off into a short, stand-alone video. I don't normally like bashing a company, but when a company of Figma's size makes a product this bad, I think it's important to call them out on it. youtu.be/ZsFIvULxkHI

A spot on explanation for how a lot of folks are feeling – myself included. Shame really. daringfireball.net/linked/2025/...

I posted this around Figma config last year and it’s probably even more relevant now piccalil.li/blog/the-tim...

I have worked my entire career in tech, I am not scared of or oblivious to what these tools can do. I have used them, I have seen them up close, and have concluded that the only stuff they’re good at is that which is unimportant enough not to matter, and even then only if you ignore what they cost.

Needed a clamp, 3D printed one.

I got this solid pine table top for a steal a couple of weeks back (it’ll eventually become my new desk) and finally got round to prepping and sanding down this weekend. Next up, marking up the standing desk frame, cable tidy and extension lead then getting it oiled and installed.

Just watch me try!

actually i think machines have learned enough

The annual rabbit hole census officially began this weekend. All vacant here.

Kent offering the most perfect frosty morning.

Good morning south east Kent

First day of meteorological spring. We made it folks!

💥The Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in Tesla, Meta, and Alphabet (Google). The fund with US $569 billion equivolent in assets is "directing more money to companies and projects that help to improve society and the environment." #Divest www.reuters.com/markets/euro...

I gave a talk at the final XOXO conference. At first, I thought I'd revisit my first talk from ten years ago. But it turned into something different. Something about life, and art, and… McDonalds? 19 minutes. Try to go in without spoilers and watch until the end. 🙏 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df_K...

ICO development sketches 💙

New on the 11ty YouTube channel: Start Your Escape from WordPress Using 11ty (in 3 minutes!):

This is disappointing, we need a modern measure of colour contrast accessibility. APCA is a superior measure but I found it more complicated to explain to designers than the binary pass/fail of the WCAG2 measure - which is often a hard enough sell TBH #a11y

I can already see it now — my most played song in 2025 will be Hairdryer by Infant Sleep Aid. Absolute banger for new parents.

We’re burning through boxsets in the early hours while dealing with an infant going through another sleep regression. The Day of the Jackal was a fun ride. Looking forward to a season 2 although deep down I feel a single limited series would have sufficed. Next up, Severance on Apple TV.

I wrote up the 25th anniversary of the unveiling of the Mac OS X Dock at Macworld Expo, from the perspective of a scared twenty-something engineer. It's me. I'm the engineer. tla.systems/blog/2025/01...

Wasn’t sure this was gonna happen, but it’s still 2024 here for ~8 hours 😅 My annual portfolio refresh 💃 lynnandtonic.com

finally finished downloading my limewire wrapped after 20 years

Thankfully swerved another awkward conversation with a neighbour this morning on the walk to work by getting my phone up to my ear just in time to take that important phone call from absolutely no one.

ONOMONO Branding and samples slowly coming together.

Help Eleventy by filling out Survey Awesome! If ever you wanted a say in future priorities in the 11ty Ecosystem, now is the time to weigh in: www.11ty.dev/blog/survey-... Appreciate you all!

I wrote a post about dyscalculia and how you can design to help people like me who struggle with numbers: www.gerireid.com/dyscalculia.... #accessibility #a11y

I’m writing a #newsletter called Own Your Web about designing, building, creating, and publishing for and on the #Web. It took a little work-induced break but the next issue is ready and will go out this Sunday. If that sounds interesting, sign up here: ownyourweb.site 🤗

Prepping for Fridays Antics tour 🎧🎸

does everybody know about my favorite website, the embroidery tips page that forgot to close its <h3> tags

Weekend vibes