Blogging and all that Malarkey

In this regular “Last week in the studio” series, I write about what I worked on during the previous week. Last week was one without a solid piece of work to tackle. Instead, I spent it on some updates to a client’s design and on making a little website for myself.

In this regular “Last week in the studio” series, I write about what I worked on during the previous week. Last week was spent on a more business-focused but no less creative project

I’ve never understood website “maintenance” plans. Websites don’t need oiling. They do need attention, though.

In this regular “Last week in the studio” series, I write about what I worked on during the previous week. Last week was partly time away from the studio, so it felt a little disjointed.

In this episode of Unfinished Business, Rich and I talk about the best type of RFP (request for proposal) and how Rich got excited when he recently one which stood out from the rest.

The view options toolbar at the bottom of my animated banners has irked me for a while. It had grown one button at a time, and the result looked ill-considered rather than designed. With a few minutes to spare at the end of last week, I finally redesigned it.

In this regular “Last week in the studio” series, I write about what I worked on during the previous week. Last week was quiet enough for me to take an afternoon off to enjoy the sunny weather, but I still got plenty done.

In this regular “Last week in the studio” series, I write about what I worked on during the previous week. Last week was a good one as I could concentrate on just one thing.

I’ve added a “spring mode” to my animated SVG desert. Flowers bloom, colours shift, and the whole scene feels more alive—all without creating a separate version. Instead, I’m layering changes on top of the same SVG and letting CSS and JavaScript do the work.

I thought it might be interesting to document what I work on during the week, so I started a regular “Last week in the studio” series. Last week was a bit productive but bitty.

As well as showing off work in progress on Sho!io, I thought it might be interesting to document what I’ve been working on here. So I’m starting a new regular “Last week in the studio” series.

The UK local and Senedd Cymru (Welsh Parliament) elections are a few weeks away. If, like me, you want to say a resounding “no” to far-right Reform and its bigotry, racism, and xenophobia, you might like to show it. My Stop Reform t-shirts are now back in my shop.

Although I feel deeply conflicted, I’ve been using AI coding tools more often to speed up particular aspects of development. Recently, I added an AGENTS.md to my setup so I don’t need to repeat my preferences.

Three podcasts for the price of one. One Footer in the Grave, Troika, and Unfinished Business. In this special crossover episode, Rich and I are joined by Jon Hicks and Marcus Lillington to discuss which three tracks we’d want with us if we were marooned on a deserted planet.

In this episode of Unfinished Business, Rich and I talk about how AI coding tools fit into our workflows at ClearLeft and Stuff & Nonsense. Then, I explain how I used AI to help me build Sho!io, a new app for sharing designs.

I’ve been quietly working on a side project called sho!io, and I’m opening it up to a few people. It’s meant to be a quiet place where you can share one thing you’re making each day, without the usual social noise. It’s early and very much still in progress, but I’d really value your honest feedback if you’re up for trying it.

This week on Unfinished Business, Rich and I are joined by developer and organizer of London Web Standards and State of the Browser, Dave Letorey.

I bought my first mechanical watch back when we were living in Australia for those couple of years. It was a Flieger 47 from the Australian brand Panzera, and it sparked my love of pilot watches.

Yours truly over at the Smashing Magazine: “CSS relative colour values are now widely supported. In this article, pioneering author and web designer Andy Clarke shares practical techniques for using them to theme and animate SVG graphics.”