Hi, I’m Laurence. I’m a Glaswegian web developer using modern web standards to create user-focused, responsive websites. I also make music, play records and ping pongs. This is my online home; a playground for coding fun and place to share thoughts on the web, music and more.
I purchased Scott’s course back in 2021 and immediately liked it, but hadn’t found the space to complete it until now. Anyway, I’m glad I have as it’s well structured and full of insights and practical tips. I’ll use this post to summarise my main takeaways.
I loved books like Tim Brown’s Flexible Typesetting, Jason Santa Maria’s On Web Typography and Richard’s own Web Typography. And I’ve used lots of their tips in my work. But I’ll be honest: they’re esoteric, complicated, hard to remember, changing rapidly with browser support… and the advice varies from one expert to the other. So I’m very grateful that Richard has provided this reusable stylesheet of great typographic defaults, making it easier to handle all the complexities of good web typography.
I’m testing out the Eleventy Image plugin. Here’s a post with an image which, if all goes well, will be converted by the plugin from source jpeg into lightweight avif and webp formats and the underlying code transformed from a basic img element into comprehensive modern HTML image syntax.
Glad I accepted the invite from Jason and Tom to attend their in-store event. After some free beer and pizza, Luke introduced Jordan from Tough Luck, an Instagram account spotlighting up-and-coming youth culture photographers. He interviewed Glasgow photographer Selina Paton (@glesgaonfilm). I ended up sat next to Selina’s Dad for that part!
A book entitled Tough Luck: You out tonight? is out now on Velocity Press. I got a lovely sense of enthusiasm for clubs and club culture from the guests, and enjoyed their analogy about film versus digital photography being a bit like vinyl versus digital audio – it’s just different and you can’t recreate the feel retrospectively.
That was a productive and fun weekend.
On Friday, Clair was meeting her mum and cousin in town so this was my quiet night in. I settled down to watch episode 4 of the The Penguin and ordered fish tikka from Kebabish – banging).