Notes from the front end data panel at Edge Conf.

Notes from the security panel panel at Edge con.

Recently I've played a couple of board games that use apps as an integral part of play. These are X Com - The Board Game and Alchemists.

Aaron Gustafson was talking about where do we go from here at Responsive Conf, these are my notes from his talk.

Lyza Danger Gardener was talking about being a generalist on the web, these are my notes from her talk.

Rosie Campbell was talking about designing for screens that don't exist yet at Responsive Conf, these are my notes from her talk.

Zoe Mickley Gillenwater was talking about Flexbox at Responsive Conf, these are my notes from her talk.

Ruth John was talking about Web APIs at Responsive Conf, these are my notes from her talk.

Jake Archibald was talking about progressive enhancement at Responsive Conf, these are my notes from his talk.

Heydon Pickering was talking about using CSS at Responsive Conf, these are my notes from his talk.

Jason Grigsby was talking about responsive images at Responsive Conf, these are my notes from his talk.

Peter Gasston was talking about web components at Responsive Conf, theser are my notes from his talk.

Alla Kholmatova was talking about modular design at Responsive Conf, these are my notes from her talk.

Rachel Shillcock was talking about accessibility and responsive design at Responsive Conf, these are my notes from her talk.

Alice Bartlett was talkning about the business case for accessibility at Resposnsiv Conf, these are my notes from her talk.

I've been noticing a steady shift in reactions to the big announcements shows from Google and Apple. They're still presented with as much - if not more - of a fanfare about the new; revolutionary; beautiful; engaging; utopian; pick your hyperbole of choice; products and features that will change our lives. However, despite using the language of revolution people have seen enough of these by now to know that the reality is going to be incremental change some time in the future.

Recently I was looking at something on an Amazon Fire phone and, specifically, the user agent string of the Silk browser. What I found is a perfect demonstration of the main problem associated with sniffing user agents: they are very unreliable.

I've been using Google Now for a while and have found it moderately useful. However, for all the virtual intelligence it shows when it's useful it's the lack of intelligence it shows when it's not that means that - whilst I use it - I don't trust it.

The E Ink Kindle e-readers feature a web browser as standard but, due to the technology that makes them good e-readers, they are a very constrained environment for a web browser. I have a number of Kindles in my device lab and, whilst I do not do in-depth testing on them, I do use them to check sites I build are accessible on these devices. This is a summary of information about these devices and how that affects web browsing.

Allison House was talking about making it happen at Dot York, these are my notes from her talk.