Notes

11 October 2019 19:38 IST

Want to make a little chat app? Even me, while very tired and usually not confident in these things, had fun going through the tutorial and getting my own basic chat app going this afternoon. Site.js holds so much promise and I’m very excited about it. Build a simple chat app with Site.js

09 October 2019 11:37 IST

Thanks Nordic.design! In case my last slide went by too fast, here’s the link to my slides and all the resources.

‘Disruptive Design: Harmful Patterns and Bad Practice’ on Notist

08 October 2019 18:09 IST

Very last-minute trip to Stockholm for Nordic.design tomorrow. Give me a shout if you’ll be there! https://nordic.design/2019/speakers

07 October 2019 14:18 IST

I’m sorry this has taken an unreasonably long time, but my slides from State Of The Browser 2019 are finally up on my Notist profile. (I wanted to make sure the slides had a proper transcript—it’s a “tightened” version of what I said on the day.)

https://noti.st/laurakalbag/K0n0Gl/accessibility-for-everyone

And trust me, it needed the tightening. Reading a verbatim transcript of myself speaking has made me hate myself and my gratuitous use of “so” and “the thing is…”

07 October 2019 11:55 IST

Tories continue to be the absolute worst. Unsurprising that their “Equalities Minister” turns out to be the “Maintaining Inequalities Minister.”

https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/10/06/trans-liz-truss-gender-recognition-act-mail-on-sunday/

03 October 2019 17:05 IST

Been busy on my blog today. Posts should be turning up here at some point. Importantly, my RSS feed should be behaving better. But if it’s still being a pain in your feed reader, please let me know 😇

02 October 2019 14:11 IST

Our app’s reviews are not reviews of me. Our app’s reviews are not reviews of me. Our app’s reviews are not reviews of me. If I keep telling myself this, maybe reading and replying to reviews will stop making me feel so anxious…

02 October 2019 13:38 IST

I know, it’s been ages but I did a little blocking rules update. Should be back into the regular schedule again now. ☺️ As ever, if you use Better Blocker and you come across any problematic sites, let me know. I will try to get things fixed/blocked/unblocked.

18 April 2019 09:31 IST

Insightful and horrifying:

‘Women suffer needless pain because almost everything is designed for men’

01 April 2019 16:52 IST

Blimey, imore.com has a cool (not cool) 100 trackers on its homepage.