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Please stop assuming everyone has a mobile phone.

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  • Web
  • Accessibility

Making assumptions about technical ability and devices can lead to poor user experience. Current systems requiring the use of a mobile phone reduce the accessibility of websites for those who can't use them.

Faster websites are better for people and planet

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  • Web
  • Environment
  • Performance

A brief analysis of the relationship between webpage load speed and carbon emissions. Faster websites tend to have lower environmental impact, and a change to one often improves the other.

Carbon and pagespeed in newspaper websites - Better Web Alliance Edition

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  • Web
  • Environment
  • Performance

A little over six months ago, right at the start of the coronavirus lockdown here in the UK, I performed an analysis of the page load performance and carbon generated from viewing various UK newspaper websites. Having just launched the Better Web Alliance, I decided to revisit the analysis, including the new Accessibility and Privacy metrics.

Announcing ccolour-juicer

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  • Web

I've just launched a simple cli utility to print out a list of unique colours in a given css file..

Better Web Alliance

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  • Web

I've just launched a new website hoping to raise awareness of the actions developers can take to make the web a better place.

Labyrinth Sprint

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  • Games

I've just launched my pacman and roguelike inspired arcade game Labyrinth Sprint on Kickstarter.

Building Websites for Beginners

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  • Web

I have recently started writing a book aiming to provide a gentle introduction to building websites for complete beginners.

Scale chart of the solar system planets

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I thought it might be interesting to make an image showing a to-scale diagram of the sun and planets. I was anticipating a large image, but was completely unprepared for quite how big it was going to be…

Carbon and pagespeed in newspaper websites

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  • Web
  • Environment
  • Performance

With many in the west currently self-isolating due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, internet use is growing rapidly. In light of this strain on the internet, I decided it would be an interesting experiment to analyse the page load performance and carbon generated from viewing a common and seemingly simple form of site – newspaper websites.