The AI experience has drained traffic from reference content, but leaves a path forward of human-centric experiences, interactivity, and better on-site value.
The goal is not more data, but data to facilitate the story of what we're trying to achieve.
How I swapped Eleventy Image’s hashed outputs for readable, stable names—and the trade‑offs.
A tiny footer checkbox to turns your site styles off with no JavaScript required.
It seems a robust, embeddable PDF viewer for on‑page reading already exists.
I’ve moved from Now Alt to Recursive, an open‑source variable font that unifies UI text and code with one flexible file.
I upgraded the site to Eleventy v3, removed Gulp and the Visual Framework, and simplified everything.
Because ‘Just give them the PDF’ isn’t good enough.
Managed Azure Database for MySQL cost us 50%–80% slow down. After six months of pain, we moved our Drupal 10 site back to a classic VM and halved our page‑load times.
A long-overdue update.
This month, I’m saying goodbye to my projects at EMBL but my career in web work continues.
A lightweight React wrapper with precompiled Nunjucks
Getting the perks of monorepo publishing while curating our git tags and release notes.
Back in February 2018, I wrote about updating this site to use a static-site generator by Zurb (makers of the Foundation Framework) called Panini.
In a career of 20 years, the more things change the more they stay the same.
A quick start on how to work with Visual Framework 2.0 CSS, JS and structure your HTML — and lots of links to learn more.
For the Visual Framework 2.0 component system we recommend Eleventy for static sites: Eleventy sites get direct access to component templates with associated metadata and a focused component library.
Eleventy notes that it, "works great with data — use both front matter and external data files" but the static site generator stops short of working well with upstream in-memory data objects for local development.
An ontology to document, plan, define and implement CAM magic.
Alphanumeric data works well for programmatic query, but less so for direct human consumption. What if a font was designed specifically with life sciences data in mind?
Not yet stable yet, but has some compelling features.
What does it mean to 'do UX' with our Content Action Model? Beyond the buzz.
Beyond the Core Content Model and into organisations, actions.
Wiring ‘ugly truth’ UX diagnostics for better web strategy & IA.
Here's a quick comparison between, Plex, Helvetica, Fira and a couple of other stand-ins.
While most any video platform and kit can work great for one-to-one video calls, I'll share lessons learnt in my previous roles and during my time in EMBL-EBI's Web Development team.
I'll tragically ignore Stockholm and highlight inclusion, embracing and enabling.
Subtitled: Resisting entropy and preparing for change by binding content to mission.
As is apt for us web types, on 25 July 2017 I gave a reboot to this website.
Using 'brand archetecture' at the heart of identitity design.
The results were immediate: the site launched in the fall shopping season and saw a doubling of conversion rates from visitors — compared to both the previous months and previous fall sales — and that pace has held strong.
Six years ago my then roommate and I founded TheDigitel on the idea that the future of news was changing and that the service was in curating and linking content, and that curation was going to be bigger than the massive link mills then in existence.
How to configure a second ethernet adapter on an Ubuntu EC2 VPC instance.
Postfix, it's used with many a LAMP stack to send out messages from a site, unfortunately it's prone to relaying many spam messages out of the box.
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