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Matthew Somerville
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I help people report broken street lights, find out their bin day, plan train travel, manage an orchestra, locate the nearest postbox, research old theatre productions, keep time in a choir, and occasionally play board games | dracos.co.uk
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Made a poster of the first part of this page

Poster made from the first part of https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/technology/using-progressive-enhancement with the heading going up the left hand side.
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www.gov.uk/service-manu... has got even better this week, including e.g. “bugs introduced in third party JavaScript intentionally running on the same page” 🎉 Recently replaced HTMX (13.2K/39.9K) with something equivalent for the only bit of it we were using (0.6K/1.1K) :-)


      Building a robust frontend using progressive enhancement - Service Manual - GOV.UK
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Building a robust frontend using progressive enhancement - Service Manual - GOV.UK GOV.UK

How to build web pages so they work in HTML first: starting with HTML, extra styles and features, using JavaScript.

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Not expressing an opinion on the current activity, but interesting that generally everyone just expects the Archive (or something like it) to exist now, whereas if the internet had gone slightly differently, it could easily have been shut down when it began. As you say, who decides

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My reasoning has always been my disorganisation, so wanting as little as possible to have to remember/do ;-) Only have the three – theatricalia.comtraintimes.org.ukdracos.co.uk – with a number of subdomains...

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Sorry for your loss, thoughts with you

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Lovely day at LocalGovCamp, had some interesting discussions and chats. On the way home; Bournville tunnel is entirely flooded, had to leave the station at the other end.

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Just to make you realise it’s not just a screenshot, added this in the dev console 😂 var x = 0; var y = 1; function pan() { fixmystreet.map.pan(step(x), step(y)); x++; y++; setTimeout(pan, 5000); } function step(n) { return n % 2 * (n % 4 == 3 ? -1 : 1) * 50; } pan();

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Alex Russell has written a lot about the failures in web development due to React and related: infrequently.org/series/ The enforced move to Gutenberg felt to me in the same style, in some way, plus eg there were lots of accessibility concerns, and I’ve never liked it.

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Arrived, set up a live demo on the screen behind me, come and say hi!

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Matthew Somerville
@dracos.co.uk
I help people report broken street lights, find out their bin day, plan train travel, manage an orchestra, locate the nearest postbox, research old theatre productions, keep time in a choir, and occasionally play board games | dracos.co.uk
411 followers73 following131 posts