Complex images can paint a thousand words
What is the best way to provide descriptive text for images that are both complex and the main focus of a page? Paul has tried to tackle this on pages dedicated to their personal art, and found that […]
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Temperate trees and shrubs
A vast encyclopedia, free for all to use online, aiming to detail all woody plants that grow in temperate regions. Written by experts, it is the single largest horticultural work ever created, and is […]
Making writing readable
How do you make your writing as accessible as possible? Plain text – a system of simplifying the words and phrases used to reduce overall complexity – is an "easy" solution, and I've never seen […]
60 years of rewilding
Monks Wood Wilderness was a regularly ploughed field 60 years ago. Then (for whatever reason) it wound up without clear ownership and became an environmental study well ahead of its time: a rewilding […]
A dictionary of problematic terms
A community-led, open-source project attempting to define problematic language (in English) and suggest better replacement terms. Unfortunately, not all listed phrases or words have detailed […]
Code words and language barriers
(I often wonder how much the Left's ever-changing vocabulary hurts its ability to work cohesively, for […]
A Wander through the Woods
As our time in Cumbria comes to a necessary close, it felt right to head out for our longest local walk yet. We drove down to the Middle Gelt viaduct only a few minutes outside of the village), […]
Commute calculator
A brilliant tool for determining where in London you get to within a certain time from a given location. In other words: if I live at X, where can I commute to within Y minutes […]
Friends, Just At A Distance
We've been in Cumbria now for more than long enough to know we didn't bring anything rotten with us. Combine that with a brief period where most people we know are currently off work (including […]
Brampton Mote
With London in Tier 4, Cumbria heading for Tier 3, and the Christmas "free for all" period cancelled, we've found ourselves a little stranded in Cumbria. We'd always planned to go back within the […]
This used to be our playground
A wonderful (and wistful) treatise to the personal web. Takes a design-oriented approach, but the words are just as applicable to any discipline (even non-digital ones). More importantly, Simon's […]
Emoji before emoji
In other words, text speech or a variant on modern emoji speech. Cool/❄ […]
Why do browsers render "chuck norris" as a colour?
Man, what a fascinating thread on the bizarre reasons that browsers will parse words into colours. To sum it […]
Picnic @ Kew Gardens
We're still avoiding public transport (haven't been on a train or bus since early March at this point 🤯) so after getting an invite to see some friends we ended up walking to, around, and from Kew […]
In defense of a fussy website
Sarah has put into words some feelings I've had recently about the web (and uses two sites as examples that I keep returning to as well: Josh W Comeau and Cassie Codes) […]
The layers of the web
The three words that spawned the world wide web as we know it; the response from Tim Berners-Lee's supervisor to Tim's initial proposal. Jeremy's talk dives into the history of how the web came to […]
Goldfish @ Printworks
It's my third time seeing Goldfish and the first time with Alison and pretty much all the usual suspects. In other words: it was amazing! Goldfish pulled out a blinder of a set, with several of their […]
Hyperfocal Stone Rows [#19]
A few weeks ago I was lucky enough to spend a long weekend in Dartmoor. We ended up visiting Wistman's Wood for much of the first afternoon, which was so captivating we would have definitely spent […]