Alistair Shepherd

This year I saw 26 shows at the Edinburgh festivals, mostly Fringe but a couple of talks from the Book festival also.

If your advertising profile is similar to mine then there's a good chance you're familiar with Loop earplugs — it feels like every tech or tech-adjacent person I know has seen loads of ads from them online!

I'm not a big fan of analytics and tracking on the web — I use ad and tracking blockers in my browser, on my device, router, and built into the DNS service I use.

A media company demanded a license fee for an Open Graph image used on my twitter archive.

I really like ntfy — a service that allows you to easily send notifications to your phone with just a HTTP request.

Some answers to questions about my experience blogging here and in the past!

A post on the the HTMHell Advent Calendar about how to use rel="preload" to improve font-loading performance!

In agency and freelance web development, relatively often I'm asked by clients what I think about accessibility overlays, or asked to implement them.

I've had a pretty crazy 2024 so far — but to be honest I kinda say that all the time, maybe that's just my life?

Last weekend I was at State of the Browser in London.

In 2017, I made a small web app for interacting with the Spotify API — mostly to learn some new technologies.

This is my personal submission to the the Potential Remedies Working Paper from the UK's Competition and Markets Authority regarding mobile browser competition.

A short intro and code on how you can use Cloudflare workers on Cloudflare's free tier to proxy an image CDN like Cloudinary, CloudImage or Imgix.

This is a quick post, public but mostly for myself about how to do simple JS library compilation and bundling with esbuild.

I found a nice build tooling setup that can be integrated into non-framework websites where some part isn't controlled by the build tool.

Happy very belated new year!

A post on the the Web Performance Calendar with handy tips for an site performance audit Available in full on the Web Performance Calendar If you have any comments or feedback on this article, let me know!

A post on the the HTMHell Advent Calendar about how to get started with web performance including some tips!

The other day Brian Kardell asked about Interop project prioritisation on his blog and mastodon.

I recently enjoyed the web comic "I'm a Luddite (and So Can You!)"

It's been a very long time since I've been really excited about some new technology.

Need to look up a users' approximate location based on their IP address?

Need to look up a users' approximate location based on their IP address?

I've been using the Fediverse via Mastodon since October 2022, as a pretty much complete replacement for Twitter.

I do a lot of hillwalking and use OsmAnd for maps on my phone and route tracking.

In November 2022 I dropped my previous phone.

Happy Hogmanay, New Year, or January depending on what you celebrate!

This is my personal submission to the UK's Competition and Markets Authority regarding mobile browser competition.

I've recently published a library called Async Alpine that adds asynchronous or lazy loading of components to Alpine.js!

I've released a new side-project, a library called Async Alpine!

This is another post about the build of this website.

An issue many businesses and sites will have to deal with is cookie and tracking consent on their websites.

I've had a very chaotic few months at the end of 2021, with work, moving house and my first steps into giving tech talks!

When I was a kid growing up in the early 2000's, one of my favourite things was the family computer.

The world of Web Development is exciting and moves fast - particularly front end development in the past few years.

My previous blogpost was about how to load a :focus-visible polyfill only if the requesting browser doesn't support it.

The future of focus is :focus-visible!

As promised, now we're going to dig into the colour-changing effects of my new website.

I've finally finished my new website, and I am really happy with it.

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