Friends, connections—everyone, in fact. It’s difficult to ask, but I could use your help. I’m looking for work. I’m a designer (Interaction/UX/UI) based in Manchester, England with 20+ years of experience. I’m looking for a hands-on IC role, ideally working with decent people, where I can put […]

Guess I’d better follow all the recommendations and everyone else down into the World Dungeon. #dcc #books #reading

Present me is kicking past me for doing whatever it was that triggered #codepen to automatically update some demos and break them in the process. 🤦‍♂️

Late to the party, but I just can’t stop listening to Flea’s instrumental cover of Frank Ocean’s Thinkin Bout You. Such a beautiful take. The trumpet, in particular, gives me a melancholy frisson. https://music.apple.com/us/song/thinkin-bout-you/1861644320

Would have been celebrating this little guy’s 13th birthday today, but he didn’t quite make it. Feeling sad, but he brought so much joy every moment we were lucky enough to share with him. If you’ve got a dog, or any family pet, give them a cuddle.

Weekend project: tinkering with OKLCH, CSS custom properties, SVG, and colour theory to generate harmonious accent colours from a single source of truth (inline custom property). Very happy to see this picked by CodePen. It gave me a welcome, unexpected boost 😍 […]

I’m trying to make simple vector shapes look handmade, using filter primitives that add imperfections (grain, wobble, rough edges, scatter, noise). Can anyone recommend good, easy-to-follow resources for working with inline SVG on the web? #lazyweb #webdev #svg

Well, that’s that. Back home from the last ever (maybe?!) #AllDayHey conference in Leeds. Tired but happy, mind buzzing, with just about enough gas left in the left in the tank to publish my thoughts on why in-person events still matter, and say a big thanks to @joshnesbitt#alldayheyfor putting on […]

King's Digital Lab are looking for a Senior UI/UX Designer to join their RSE team. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/139745-senior-research-software-uiux-designer

@endonend I finally got around to looking at importing my Crucial Tracks journal entries JSON feed into my website (using Eleventy Fetch), but it returns only the most recent 50 items. Is there a way to fetch older entries (pagination etc)?

Looking at my feed this morning, I decided I need a follow policy of sorts. When I joined Mastodon, this wasn’t necessary. My new policy: I'll still follow back anyone who follows me. But if you start uncritically promoting LLMs, I'll unfollow you. Why? Because it signals your work is derivative […]

Dusted off an article I wrote last year on generating OKLCH colour palettes, adding a new section exploring the limitations of linear interpolation and how easing equations solved the problem I ran into […]

From The Guardian this morning. Thoughts? Comments welcome. Source: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/02/openclaw-viral-ai-agent-personal-assistant-artificial-intelligence #ai #openclaw #clawdbot

Well, that’s that.

Pleasantly whiled away a couple of hours listening to music that takes me back to a specific time and place, compiling a mixtape and making a J-card cover (remember cassettes?) using Affinity. I had fun, and it brought back memories of good times—I really […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

@endonend Hey Jason, Finally gotten around to messing around with Mixtapes. Great feature! It would be nice to be able to edit the track order within a playlist. Understand this might be one of those small features where the perceived benefit vs. effort to implement doesn't stack up. #crucialtracks

A redesign I was involved in went live today. Check out the new https://11tybundle.dev/ website. Big thanks to @bobmonsour for taking a leap of faith and involving me in the design and front-end work. What a great guy—I had fun collaborating on this project. And it feels good to put something […]

Apologies, I try to be optimistic, but today everything is getting on top of me and I've just got to rant. - Country visibly falling apart; govt. thinks this is normal. - Cost of everything going up until you can't put heating on and an egg is a luxury. - Jobs, along with any sense of purpose […]

@vale @henry Hey, looks like a lot of people have recently added sites, but the build seems to be failing on personalsit.es!

I finally got around to doing a year in review for the first time, inspired by the lovely and genuine posts by @hdv, @cory, @nazhamid, @chriskirknielsen—and as usual, enabled by @11ty. I'd love to see more examples if anyone has recommends. And there's still just about time to do one this year! […]

If you love #11ty and make use of the 11ty Bundle website, we’ve got a beta test of the redesigned site just for you. There's a feedback link at the top. Enjoy! @11ty @zachleat https://redesign.bob-monsour.workers.dev/

I got the The Butterfly archetype! https://mastodon.social/@damianwalsh/wrapstodon/2025/76d0ce4cdc9ff9e1 #wrapstodon2025

Fuck, I'm so sad to hear about the passing of Manchester legend Gary ‘Mani’ Mounfield. Listening to Fools Gold and remembering the seismic impact that track had on me the first time I heard it.

@endonend Hi Jason, is creating an RSS/JSON feed for individual users' Crucial Tracks something you already have or might consider doing? It's a bit of a selfish/lazy ask—I was thinking that way I might be able to automatically fetch my journal entries periodically and include them on my […]

On the theme of lifelong learning, today I discovered there's a turnip emoji. There's probably a course all about this on LinkedIn Learning, but I'm clearly not paying close enough attention. 🫜

Attention #11ty devs. usp=sharing&ouid with @damianwalsh#11tyon a redesign of the 11ty Bundle website. usp=sharing&ouid a survey to get your input. We’d love for you to fill it out. It's pretty short. Boosts appreciated […]

Alongside my own efforts to build a personal digital music library, I've been enjoying @endonend's Crucial Tracks project. Using it to create a journal and discover what others share has been fruitful. Hopefully a practice I can maintain. Sharing my latest entry here as it intersects with my […]

Hey @endonend really enjoying Crucial Tracks—using the prompts to think more deeply about my music and seeing others' public responses. I know I can create my own entries with custom prompts, but listening to Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out got me thinking: with all the remasters and rereleases featuring […]

Mind *still* buzzing after listening to @NicMakesStuff talk about using #11ty and web standards to power various aspects of a museum's digital infrastructure: signage, guides, etc. and the benefits this smart approach brought to the organisation and visitors […]

Anxiety dream: I go for a haircut, Mick Jagger (70s version) is the hairdresser. Between pulling faces and dancing in the mirror, he gives me a terrible, terrible mullet. I burst into tears so he reassures me everything can be fixed with the "product". This turns out to be Vaseline applied […]

Not sure who actually needs to know this, but today is going to be a good day. I have new vinyl to play (unbelievably the first new record I've gotten all year), oh and it's my birthday too.

Redid https://www.steele.blue's templating with VentoJS. Using it for site layout, with a smattering of WebC leaf components, is a hell of a combination. Thanks @chriskirknielsen for the inspiration and a great post on integrating with @11ty […]

The old web was decentralized: - Newsgroups - Personal Websites - Bulletin board - Email as a service, not a platform - Internet relay chat (IRC) - Early blogs Then corporations arrived with money and lock-in, turning the internet into centralized ad farms (Meta, X, TikTok). Users became […]

I can't afford new devices, so instead I decided to "treat" myself by installing iOS 26 and Tahoe last night. I know decision-making in orgs is torture, but seriously—if you picked almost anything in the new UI and compared it against what came before and asked "Is this better?" I can't see how […]

I've read a number of posts about personal websites lately from different perspectives, all highlighting their value. This is my attempt to reflect on reclaiming my creative space and what it means to me. https://damianwalsh.co.uk/posts/a-year-in-a-digital-garden/ #11ty #indieweb #SmallWeb […]

Building on lessons learned from my music collection project, I've created a digital bookshelf using Eleventy and the OpenLibrary API to organise my reading list. Many similar projects and write-ups already exist. This one just happens to be mine, and this article documents my personal approach. […]