I’m taking the day off from the site today — feeling crispy from a little too much work lately. Besides, everyone’s gonna be too busy huffing US midterm election results to pay any at…

Imagine arriving on a website and tabbing to a form field. Instead of hearing "Search, edit, blank" or "Email address, required, edit, blank", your screen reader simply announces "edit field". You kno…

Same as for the talks archive counts for the speakers list. And don’t forget: many of them have spoken multiple times. Otherwise it would be even l…

I decided not to do #NaNoWriMo this year. Part of that is because I’ve never done it. Never even attempted it. Don’t even want to. Writing a novel is a life goal of mine, but cramming it all into…

CSS has two new positional alignment keywords as part of CSS Box Alignment Level 3: flow-start and flow-end. These are defined as aliases for the existing flex-start and flex-end keywords. Therefore,…

I really liked Ray Nayler’s The Mountain In The Sea. I also liked The Tusks Of Extinction. But reading those back-to-back gave me pause: At times it seems to relish in describing the worst tha…

🎬 Edgar G. Ulmer, 1945, ★★★★½ The very definition of lean and mean. 🖤 Tagged: November 2026, film diary, film and television, review, Edgar G. Ulmer Reply via…

I’m playing at The Grove in Nottingham soon, supporting Foule, with Oiseaux also on the bill. It’s on Thursday 26th November. Tickets via Gigantic. It’ll be my fi…