Archive for 2020
The year the COVID-19 pandemic leads to global social and economic disruption, worldwide lockdowns and the largest economic recession since the 1930s.
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In which I look back at living during a pandemic.
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In which I actually design the type scale, no really.
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In which looking the type scale sends me down a rabbit hole of the origin of heading sizes, World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and Web Standards.
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In which I look at the typography for the display text.
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In which I look at the typography for the body text.
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In which I learn how inaccessible my old site was so that I can make the reboot better.
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In which I publish the accessibility results from Pa11y and Google Lighthouse.
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In which I do a systemic analysis of the past performance to define the practical budget for the reboot.
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In which I publish the raw Pageviews data from Google Analytics.
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In which I finish making a strategy for measuring what and how I’ll determine the usability and web best practices.
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In which I make a strategy for measuring what and how I’ll determine the success of the reboot.
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In which correct protocols and procedures must be maintained, following an incident of this nature.
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In which I we review the purpose of the Journal Entries page, its content outline and any outstanding structural housekeeping tasks.
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In which I clean up the mess that is Topics and Themes.
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In which I continue to review my approach to reading and think about the books I read last year.
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In which I spend four years figuring out if I can learn to like olives.
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In which we look at how well I’ve managed to balance my Venn diagram of physical, mental and social well-being.
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In which I get frustrated about how weird my site is to read.
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In which I get frustrated about people telling me the site looks weird.
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In which I fix the mess that the RSS feed was.
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In which I review how URLs should reveal the underlying structure of things and allow people to explore.
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In which I add a new section to my site to showcase my selected work.
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In which I want to add a bunch of new stuff but I want to make sure that stuff isn’t there just for the sake of it.
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In which I take stock of the pages I’ve gathered over the years.
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In which I begin rebooting this site.
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In which I take the fifth step and tell someone about all the fucked up stuff I’ve been through.