Journal: Providers Web browsers provide you with great features for free. Why would you choose to use tools that stop you taking advantage of that? 🔗https://adactio.com/journal/22235

“Fáilte go Knocka, fáilte go Knocka, gaelteacht nua i dtuisceart na cathrach!” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH772P6YbMQ (Tá Kneecap ceart go leor, ach is fearr liom Kabin Crew!) 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22234

When you think about it, the phrase “earning a living” is really quite vile. 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22233

I'm swimming 10k again in November for Cancer Research UK - any donations are much appreciated! fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/jessica...

Bhí RÓIS ar fheabhas anocht! Guth den scoth! 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22231

Added more photos from our "wall of vibes" ffconf.org/photos/ Lots of lovely memories and probably gives you a sense of what the event is too. Today is the last day before late-bird pricing kicks in, and then we're IRL next Friday.

Journal: Announcing UX London 2026 Save the dates: June 2nd, 3rd, and 4th. 🔗https://adactio.com/journal/22229

Journal: Bóthar Where we’re going, we don’t need roads. 🔗https://adactio.com/journal/22228

Thursday session 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22227

🥳 All too rare mention of progressive enhancement. Yay, @inesakrap.bsky.social! It still amazes me how this approach is so often sacrificed due to less conscientious use of fashionable frameworks. #perfnow

Journal: Aleth Gueguen is speaking at Web Day Out Progressive web apps from the trenches. 🔗https://adactio.com/journal/22225

56 years ago today: > Talked to SRI Host to Host — IMP log, 1969-10-29 22:30, Charles S. Kline, Boelter Hall, UCLA The message: > LO The ARPANET was born. 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22223

Journal: Cryosleep Wake me up when we get to the plateau of productivity. 🔗https://adactio.com/journal/22219

Journal: Responses Blog-to-blog is the best. 🔗https://adactio.com/journal/22213

Coco in the sun. 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22209

Saturday morning tunes and tea 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22208

Journal: Jake Archibald is speaking at Web Day Out The sixth speaker is revealed—only two more to go! 🔗https://adactio.com/journal/22205

Having a coffee with Mango. Confession: I can never remember the actual name of the coffee shop so in my mind it’s Mango’s. 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22202

Sunday session in Cork 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22201

Going to Cork (for real this time, I hope). brb 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22198

I remember my dad proudly producing ramshackle shelves, shattering plaster walls with 6 inch nails, and using industrial glue to reattach buttons, and thinking ‘I hope I never have to live with such botch jobs, that started out with such hope.’ But my husband has got into vibe coding, so alas …

If “AI” did the thing, organizations would be bragging about the outcomes instead of jawing endlessly about the tools.

Thursday session 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22196

My brain every time someone says they made something with AI...

Wednesday session 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22192

Just saw @adactio.com's "Declarative Design – SOTR" www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHfa... and I reminded myself that I need to read great articles like "A Dao of Web Design", which I still have on my reading list. Great stuff #web #webdesign

Anyone who started their web development career in the last ten years has come up in an era where you frequently learn React as your first exposure to building websites Try surveying people on how they would implement a search feature using an HTML <form> with no JavaScript

Journal: Reasoning In which I find a tagline for Web Day Out and a tagline for React. 🔗https://adactio.com/journal/22188

Monday session 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22187

Journal: Live A good week of music from Ireland, Australia, England, and Ukraine. 🔗https://adactio.com/journal/22186

Journal: Research Quant vs. qual. 🔗https://adactio.com/journal/22183

CSS is incredible adactio.com/journal/22178

Now when you feel guilty about designing a carousel, you don’t have to also feel guilty about the code you used to program it. adactio.com/journal/22178 #FrontEnd @adactio.com #css

Journal: Simplify Reminding myself just how much you can do with CSS these days. 🔗https://adactio.com/journal/22178

Every time I watch a team of hard-working folks burn months on a React upgrade, I'm reminded of how thoroughly the JS-Industrial-Complex gaslit us. You know who hasn't slogged through constant breaking change migrations? Web Components developers. New runtimes drop *every month*...and it's *fine*.

Journal: Coattails Language matters. 🔗https://adactio.com/journal/22177

This could be the tagline for Web Day Out webdayout.com

Journal: Decontrolled Leaving an airport in an unconvential manner. 🔗https://adactio.com/journal/22174

Not going to Cork after all, thanks to Storm Amy. Thanks, Amy. Thamy. 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22172

WEBSITES! You can even make them behave like apps if you want to! Very few apps need to be apps at all. Even games in the browser have come a long way.

Going to Cork. brb 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22171

Wednesday session 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22168

Journal: Summer’s end Seeing out September in Spain. 🔗https://adactio.com/journal/22166

Would you look at that, we have been shortlisted in zeroheight's Design System Awards, in the best event category for Patterns Day 🏆 Wether you were there, know anyone that was or just love to see a community of designers and developers come together in Brighton, you know what to 👉 lnkd.in/eKxf6ayV

Netflix’s House Of Guinness is schlocky trash but it’s schlocky trash with Irish subtitles available, so I’m thoroughly enjoying watching/reading it. 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22163

Monday session 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22161

Clouds looming towards Brighton. 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22160

Thursday session 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22158

Journal: Earth Synchronicity. 🔗https://adactio.com/journal/22157

Journal: Hounds Of Love I put this moment here. 🔗https://adactio.com/journal/22155