The World-Wide Work.

How the web is changing, and our work alongside it.

Responsive web design turns ten

The story about how responsive web design came to be.

“The best way to immediately spot all the typos in something you’ve written is by emailing it to all your newsletter subscribers.”

“I am a professional web designer, which just means I have memorized fifteen different programs’ wildly inconsistent keyboard commands for ‘move this layer to the back’.”

Responsive design and container queries? Oh my!

The practice of responsive design continues to evolve.

Locus.

Why do companies promote native apps over their perfectly usable websites?

“If everyone in tech was limited to browsing the web with their mobile phones, I firmly believe the internet’s usability problems would be solved inside of a week.”

“Hiding content is rarely about what ‘mobile users’ want; it is almost always about a process that prioritized the widescreen experience until the very end.”

“We need to stop treating accessibility as though it’s simply a feature to be implemented.”

Blockin’ bots

How to block AI bots effectively with your site’s .htaccess.