My journal — Ethan Marcotte’s website

Update: Mozilla’s released a proper site for their organizing guide.

The world’s on fire, so I’d like to talk about an essay I enjoyed.

2019’s entering its final days.

Summary {#summary} “The World-Wide Work” is a talk on automation, power, justice, and labor in the tech industry.

I recently found myself on the official page for AMP Stories, the latest offshoot of Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) project.

A note to the reader: In this post, I talk about losing a pet — no, a beloved family member.

I’m in a coffeeshop in Cambridge, mulling over something Liz Jackson said in an interview.

I’m winding my way home from this year’s Theorizing The Web (TtW), and thinking back over the last few days.

At some point in the last few years, I learned a new term: “training data.”

Any sufficiently advanced neglect is indistinguishable from malice.

I just flew back from New Adventures, and boy are my arms tired is my heart full.

At last week’s New Adventures conference in Nottingham, I gave a brand new talk called “The World-Wide Work.” ( Update: I’ve published a transcript of my talk, “The World-Wide Work”. ) Here’s the description I sent over to Simon many, many months ago: The…

With the books freshly closed on 2018, I find I’m looking back a bit.

I’m writing a new talk.

I’ve spent the last couple weeks being really impressed by remove.bg.

Last Thursday, I attended Resilient Coders’ Demo Day.

I’ve posted a few things about the new web browser on the Apple Watch here and there.

Thanks to Boston’s fine mass transit system, I’d arrived late, and I was a bit unsure of where to sit, or what to do.

Update: This post is now out of date!

Earlier this year, I asked a question on Twitter: I often hear from stakeholders who worry that “accessible” means “ugly.”

Responsive design’s been around for a few years, but I still hear a lot of questions in my line of work.

Generally, I think about a design system in terms of both output and input: folks need to get patterns out of the system, sure; but there need to be processes established to channel contributions into the design system, too.

I have a watch.

When it comes to getting my work done, I’m generally not too dogmatic about applications, frameworks, or workflows.

Mat Marquis has written Image Performance, an excellent new book published by A Book Apart.

Google’s “Accelerated Mobile Pages” (AMP) project just announced they’re moving to a more open governance model for the AMP specification.

I care pretty deeply about accessible design.

Earlier this month, Adam Roberts invited me to do a brief Q&A session for Sitepoint’s Versioning newsletter.

Now.

At a friend’s recommendation, I’ve been reading Donella Meadows’ Thinking in Systems: A Primer.

For a few years now, our industry has framed the problem with web performance primarily as a problem of flawed practices: namely, that digital teams don’t know that their web pages are too heavy or too slow.

It’s punishingly hot out.

Normally, my phone lives in my jeans’ front right pocket, while my wallet’s in the front left.

Fair warning: this post will be relevant to, like, three of you.

In fairly short order, the fr unit has become one of my favorite parts of the CSS Grid specification.

I’m an independent web designer, and have been for most of my career.

Over the last year or so, I’ve been learning CSS Grid Layout.

Apple announced that the WebKit browsing engine is being ported to watchOS.

Today, I had coffee with a few old friends.

I don’t talk about it much, but I have a little website called bukk.it.

Yesterday, Google announced Duplex, a new product that can conduct natural-sounding conversations over the phone, and can complete “real world” tasks while doing so.

When reviewing patterns in a collaborative setting, I’ve frequently found myself in interesting discussions about whether a pattern deserves to be a pattern.

Some time ago, I worked with a large client, helping them to catalog their existing design patterns, and to understand how they could establish a broader design system.

I spent most of last week soaking up sunshine in Florida, as I’d been invited to speak at Front-End Design Conference (FEDC).

Here’s a video I watched some months back: Download the video I can’t stop thinking about it.

I’ve noticed a rhetorical trope in our industry.

A little over three years ago, Karen suggested we start a podcast.

A number of friends sent me this article on The Verge about Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) project, and wondered what I thought of it.

Left the gym, bought some milk and some cat food, and started the walk toward home.

In Malte Ubl’s response to some legitimate (and very direct) questions about the governance of Google’s Accelerated Mobile Project (AMP), there’s a section that jumped out at me: The discussion is happening here with the scope of AMP.