Links

AIDS.GOV on RWD

On this week’s Responsive Web Design podcast, aids.gov allude to the public health benefits of going responsive. Listen.

Notes

Web Directions Respond 15

I’m speaking at Web Directions Respond in March, come along. It features travelling guests Scott Jehl, Yesenia Perez-Cruz and Andrew Clarke, along with a bunch of local designers and developers. I attended the first Respond in 2014 and it changed the way I work.

Talks

What do mobile users want to do?

A new site asking what do mobile users want to do?

Quick Notes

Snow day

No snow at Woodlawn High on January 13, 1999.

Notes

Tech Freedom vs Feminism

The organisations who are doing internet freedom work are also the ones who are idolising and absolving the various hateful actions of men. It all adds up to build a pattern of anti-women rhetoric and it’s certainly one that makes me feel absolutely unwelcome. Jem Yoshioka – On the Left

Notes

That Dragon, Cancer

Signed up with Kickstarter to back That Dragon, Cancer. Help it pass the goal.

Notes

The Other Side of Diversity — Erica Joy

The Other Side of Diversity by Erica Joy, a must read and condemnation of the tech industry.

Notes

Speaking at What Do You Know Melbourne

I’ll be speaking at Web Directions’ What Do You Know Melbourne — The Smackdown Edition on August 27. You should come along. There will be eight speakers debating four topics for five minutes each. Plenty of variety without going on too long. I’ll be arguing RWD is better than an m-dot site.

Talks

The HTML5 Document Outline

The MDN page titled Sections and Outlines of an HTML5 Document includes the following warning: There are currently no known implementations of the outline algorithm in graphical browsers or assistive technology user agents […] authors are advised to use heading rank (h1 – h6). Given the speed at which CSS3 is implemented, this is disappointing. […]

Code

There are no ninjas here

At Floate, we employ three developers. There is one full time developer and two designers who can also develop. None of us are ninjas. Nor are we rock stars. Continue reading at the Floate blog.

Opinion