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Mucking about with mobile browsers

13 October 2026 | tagged as Testing

For the first time in nine years I created a test suite of two phones. A few things caught my interest - especially UC supporting zoom reflowing, my favourite mobile feature.

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The cost of AI

6 October 2026 | tagged as AI Monetisation

The tech giants are creating a system with the appeal of a 19th-century factory, complete with oppressed and estranged workers, without delivering the sole benefit: cheaper stuff. After each conversation about AI, ask what the true cost of the tokens would be. Nobody knows, but getting used to asking the question is is a good idea.

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Books aren't dead

21 September 2026 | tagged as Personal

About twenty boxes of books were thrown onto the street from my apartment building. That made me sad, but I’m not going read 98% of them. But they were taken anyway, and quickly. Books aren’t dead. They’re just sleeping.

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Style queries for nested breakpoints

8 September 2026 | tagged as CSS

I plan to use style containers for centralised breakpoint definitions, combining style queries with CSS nesting. Also, I went down a rabbit hole. Do you know what a container is? And that size containers, the ones with the cqw goodness, are the exception rather than the rule in container land?

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initial-scale no longer needed

2 September 2026 | tagged as Viewports

Fifteen years ago I helped popularise the meta viewport width=device-width,initial-scale=1. Today I found out the second bit is no longer necessary. A retrospective.

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From the archives: The gig economy as student jobs

15 August 2026 | tagged as Archives Monetisation

Thoughts about the gig economy from a more innocent era. Maybe they’re still useful today.

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The website as irrelevant bullshit

13 August 2026 | tagged as Personal

An example of a website being irrelevant bullshit that happened to trigger me. Why didn't a UX designer pull the emergency break?

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