This. This. This. This is what initially brought me to the early web; the improvisation, the bugs, the happy accidents the intersection of exciting new technology, not yet understood, and the excitement of actually seeing in the browser directly if what I tweaked in the html gibberish works or not… This naive playfulness matured, of…
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WebrockerWordPress Default Themes Look Changes from TwentyTen to TwentyTwenty
Since the recent WordPress auto update incident left all twenty-* default themes in my install, here's a gif how the look changed over the last ten years… Time flies, eh? And yes, there's no "TwentyEighteen" Theme - thanks to the development of the Gutenberg editor, which took longer as expected at first and so the…
Lateral Thinking With Withered Technology - Matthias Ott
How Nintendo won the world and what this may have to do with a sane approach to building web experiences…
img with background-image
Yes, this seems to work*. O_o See the Pen Image with Background Image (yes you read that right) by Tom (@webrocker) on CodePen. I wondered if I could use a background image for a transparent png I used in a recent blog post, and decided to give it a try and not making a wrapper…
Pratical ethics for the modern web designer - Morten Rand-Hendriksen
In this talk for An Event Apart on 20th July 2020, Morten lays down a path toward an explicit ethics for web workers, by anchoring the work we do in the capabilities we manipulate in the people we design for, and providing an ethical foundation to stand on when making the decisions that build the…
CSS Naked Day 2020
Today my site looks unstyled*. The reason behind the #cssnaked day is: Good sites work, even when the "pretty" visual layer is removed. It is one of the super powers of the web and good html-markup: The elements' browser defaults may not look pretty, but their function is intact. Sadly this functional aspect is often…
Rick Dees and his Cast of Idiots - Disco Duck @ Top Of The Pops 1976
I have scored a stash of old 7" vinyl singles in various states of detoriation from a house cleaning in the neighbourhood. Most of them are German "Schlager" and "Volksmusik" singles, but there's the occasional gem hidden, too. Like this one This song has a bunch of great videos, and an amazing live perfomance, introduced…
Visitors, Developers, or Machines - Garrett Dimon
Here is food for thought: is the rise and popularity of JavaScript frameworks and, as a result, websites that are less resilient and more user hostile, a product of throwing user experience under the bus for the sake of developer happiness?