Barnaby Walters

For the first time in my life I am out of bed before the new XKCD was published.

This is an excellent explanation of why I throw water at cats in my garden: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/cats_actually_kill

Essentially, my previous design had reached local maximum, so I’m going back to basics.

I’ve decided it’s important that styling doesn’t fight or contradict markup, so I’m hoping that adding it progressively only where it is needed will make my code more maintainable.

My website has gone CSS-less for a week so I can make sure my markup is spick and span.

Hm, no that wasn’t right. Let’s try again! #tweet

Let’s see if my event-driven, decoupled syndicator works properly: #tweet

First post from my new install! Transition was surprisingly easy.

#protip: Use <form action="." method="post"> for RESTful /collectionname/new forms if collectionname cannot be hard–coded. Saves loading backend routing config into the front end when it’s not required #web #dev

http://identengine.com/ is an amazing social graph API for the #indieweb. Great work Glenn Jones!

As of today I renounce twitter bootstrap. I will take inspiration from it as I take inspiration from other work, but I will no longer use any of it’s code.

My new business: “The #Apprentice” candidates pay me to look stuff up on #wikipedia, a skill they apparently lack.

I hope that as I continue my #lutherie career the excitement of designing an instrument and ordering the wood never wears off.

Haven’t heard that one before #web #design:

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The poster is for a gig I’m doing in December. But just because it’s a print poster is no reason not to use #microformats2 #µf2 h-card!

Designing a poster in HTML (for compatibility). It’s relaxing to not have to deal with fluid design. body { width: 210mm; height: 297mm; }