A typical day: pandemic edition
What does a typical day for me look like in 2021?
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Give yourself a break: lessons from burnout
I started writing this post a few days ago, and was so exhausted I couldn't actually be bothered to finish it, which tells you a lot really. Here are some lessons from the trash fire of 2020 that we can take over into the slightly-smaller-but-still-burning trash fire of 2021.
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7 myths designers and developers believe about web accessibility
In an ideal world, being "good at accessibility" wouldn't make you stand out from the crowd. Companies wouldn't be hiring accessibility experts to help them unpick and untangle the inaccessible products they've been building for years. Speaking about web accessibility at a conference would be as unnecessary as getting up on stage and giving a talk on how to write HTML.
But we don't live in that world, and the web is full of inaccessible websites.
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Defending yourself against cross-site scripting attacks with Content-Security-Policy
A guide to cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks and the HTTP Content-Security-Policy header, what it does, how to use it, and how it protects us.
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ffconf 2019: future friends beside the seaside
Now in its 11th year, ffconf is one of the biggest events in the conference calendar for web developers across the UK. Yet somehow I’ve managed to miss every one since I got into tech, because of some reason or another - last year I was at the week-long blockchain sales pitch that is Web Summit - so I was understandably very excited to finally be going.