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If you’re interested in accessibility, user experience design, and/or frontend development, you’re in the right place. You can also browse by category or year.

  1. Why I stopped using ASCII art

    Article posted 10th March 2021 in Accessibility

    I love those old-school ASCII art characters, but I’ve stopped using them as they’re not accessible.

  2. Setting an upstream Git branch

    Article posted 26th February 2021 in Development and Git

    There’s no such thing as syncing in Git, but setting an upstream branch is about as close as it gets.

  3. How to rename the ‘master’ branch on GitHub

    Article posted 25th February 2021 in Development and Git

    So renaming master to main is a good idea, but how do we do it? Fortunately, it’s really straightforward if your repository lives on GitHub.

  4. Empathy, and renaming my ‘master’ branch to ‘main’

    Article posted 24th February 2021 in Development and Git

    I’ve noticed a move towards renaming the master Git branch. It’s a racially charged term and I’m very happy to switch from master to main.

  5. Third party platforms, and owning your own content

    Article posted 23rd February 2021

    Facebook’s run in with the Australian government got me thinking about how important it is not to depend on third parties to publish your ideas.

  6. Caching fonts on Netlify

    Article posted 22nd February 2021 in Development, Performance and Serverless

    I’m not sure what took me so long to notice, but my website’s custom font wasn’t caching. The good news is that caching is easy with Netlify.

  7. Custom numeric passcodes on iPhone

    Article posted 18th February 2021 in Apple

    I’ve been keen to ditch my 6 digit iPhone unlock passcode for a while now, as even a very short alphanumeric code is so much more secure.

  8. Face ID and masks

    Article posted 17th February 2021 in Apple

    Face ID is great, but now that we’re all wearing masks in public our passcodes are seeing a lot more use. Luckily, Apple have a solution in the pipeline.

  9. When and how to use the section element

    Article posted 11th February 2021 in Accessibility and HTML

    So what on earth is a <section> element actually for? The answer isn’t as obvious as you might have hoped, but it’s definitely straightforward.

  10. Viewing the changes in a Git stash

    Article posted 10th February 2021 in Development and Git

    Naming stashes is a good idea if some time is likely to pass between stashing and picking up the work again, but sometimes we need even more info.