A stream of consciousness by Laurence Hughes

Marco, Jason, me and Tom enjoy a pint and a laugh at The Two Brewers pub ahead of the Robert Henke gig at The Barbican.

How the NYS Design System uses CSS variables and design tokens to enable consistent, scalable, and customizable UI development across New York State.

A useful insight into how one organisation handles design tokens via custom properties, including a number of advanced considerations.

Life moves pretty fast… and I’m now 50 years old. How did that happen?

So I’m no spring chicken… but I feel healthy, happy and very lucky after a memorable few days celebrating the milestone with family and friends.

In the run-up to this radio show I had recently moved house, so hadn’t had much time for new record shopping. I’m also approaching the big half-century. So it felt timely to go for a theme rather than a selection of new records. Since I was feeling nostalgic I decided to anchor the mix around some early inspirations (New Order and 808 State) and let it flow from there.

Listen to the show on Soundcloud.

Keith Cirkel shares his journey to contributing to web browsers as a web developer. If you’re curious about the learning curve, the standards process or simply, how to contribute to a browser without past experience, this episode is for you.

After attending Web Day Out and just missing Lola at the end, I read more about her and checked out her podcast.