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Two Governments, Both Alike In Dignity

April 2, 2013 – 8:41 am

Disclaimer: I’m engaged to Frances Berriman, the front-end lead at the UK’s Government Digital Service. She did not approve this post. It is, however, the product of many of our discussions. You’ll understand shortly why this is relevant. It seems entirely rational to be skeptical about governments doing things well. My personal life as a [...]

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Layers of Confusion

November 23, 2012 – 5:12 am

I missed a Plus post by Ian Hickson back from August but I saw it today through the magic of the twitters. It contains quite a lot to quibble about, but I want to home in on something he wrote in the comments in response to Will Sargent, RE: one of my posts on layering [...]

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Bits and Remainders

November 16, 2012 – 11:13 am

I’ve been working on an epically-long blog post on the Offline problem for something like two months now and it’s still not done. That’s not so much to tease as warn you; Frances thinks I should post it in installments. It’s that long. Anyhow, as a result of that ever-growing design/analysis/writing hairball, I haven’t blogged [...]

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Please Vote

May 1, 2012 – 4:30 am

If you’re a web developer, please vote in Paul Irish’s poll on browser support. The larger the population that votes, the more we can trust the answers, and the data is critical to making sense of how we collectively think about browser support. Go now. It won’t take long, I promise.

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Overdue Credit Where It’s Due

March 5, 2012 – 5:25 am

This is just the top of the backlog…there’s stuff still in my brain-bin from TPAC, but a couple of quick items worthy of a collective pip-pip!: MSFT Moves To More Aggressive IE Updates: Automatic updates work, and in conjunction with shorter development cycles they enable the process of progress to move faster. Kudos to MSFT [...]

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