Notes

Autumnal ride

Christmas Day walk in the Garden of England 🎄

Heartened by the interest and engagement we've helped develop for IndieWeb @HWCLondon over the past 2 years. Reinforced by posts like this by Jonas.. https://blog.voss.co/2018/festive-indieweb-and-selfhosting

Super fast non-stop 20-minute journey back to Tonbridge from Ashford today thanks to a late running @Se_Railway ..can't do that by car!

So Penshurst, at least one of you have a drone and a grudge against #Gatwick 🤔 https://youtu.be/Ijhdc0Qpd8o

A rare sight of empty, quiet skies above Tonbridge this morning. #Gatwick

A handful of Flexbox properties which come in handy for fixing over-stretched content and other layout issues in IE11: align-self: center | flex-basis: auto | flex-shrink: 0

Long, adventurous journey back home after train broke down inside Sevenoaks tunnel but back finally from a super evening in excellent company @LondonCSS birthday.

The #southeastern Lewisham trick: watch how many passengers jump out of their seats at the sight of tower blocks thinking we've already arrived at London Bridge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAt5E2xrXH8&t=1020s

Attempting to research Global CSS-in-JS for @gatsbyjs with emotion-js. Instead finding outdated modules failing to compile and documentation which is neither up-to-date nor does it meet basic accessibility requirements for colour contrast ratio.

Crashed-off my bike pressured onto pavement by impatient motorist. Clipped the kerb and went flying into the hedge, then lost my phone. Queue much searching of hedges, use of a friend's phone and Find My Device to locate. 🚲💥😌

Representing the current state of Brexit negotiations in a simple Hello world example using JavaScript

No rest for the awesome - students and coaches busy working through lunch for @24PullRequests this weekend @codebar London

Happy 12th #BlueBeanieDay - battling on through the waves of software engineers with dwindling awareness for #WebStandards and #a11y principles

How difficult would it be for cookie dialogues with 50+ checkboxes to look AND work properly? .. with a label like "Check/Uncheck all cookies" instead of a misleading Accept all button (actually a checkbox toggle) #darkpatterns

Great things are discussed together, experimented with and built at IndieWebCamps ..and this was one them.. using the PushAPI without Notifications by @Sebsel https://css-tricks.com/push-and-ye-shall-receive/

"Go home and get a nice quiet sleep" - Neville Chamberlain, 1938

A few words about IndieWebCamp Berlin I attended last weekend https://calumryan.com/blog/indiewebcamp-berlin-2018/

First time speaker @ohhelloana performing like a pro tonight @todo_london talking about managing self-doubt and the strengths of seeking out supporting communities with shoutouts to #indiewebcamp and #codebar events