While I’ve been listening to Hounds Of Love, I’ve also been reading Orbital by Samantha Harvey. Here’s a passage from an early chapter as the crew of the International Space Station watch a typhoon forming: How wired and wakeful the earth seems suddenly. It’s not one of the regular typhoons that haphazardly assault these parts of the world, they agree. They can’t see it all, but it’s bigger than projections had previously thought, and moving faster. They send their images, the lat...| Adactio: Journal
The album Hounds Of Love by Kate Bush turned 40 years old this month. It has really stood the test of time. It still sounds like nothing else. It’s kind of two albums in one. There’s the A side with all those perfect pop songs—Running Up That Hill, Hounds Of Love, Cloudbusting, The Big Sky—each one brilliant and self-contained. Then there’s the B side, The Ninth Wave. It’s like its own concept album within an album. It’s weird and challening, but I love it. At times it’s downr...| Adactio: Journal
If you work at a clever company, then you should let them know about sponsoring Web Day Out. All the details are in this PDF sponsorship pack. Basically there are three (and only three) spots available, at three different levels of sponsorship. One of the best things about the venue for Web Day Out is that always having an excellent auditorium, the Studio Theatre has a really nice space for the breaks. It would be the perfect spot to set up a stand and chat with all the smart attendees. All t...| Adactio: Journal
I was going to save this announcement for later, but I’m just too excited: Harry Roberts will be speaking at Web Day Out! Goddamn, that’s one fine line-up, and it isn’t even complete yet! Get your ticket if you haven’t already. There’s a bit of a story behind the talk that Harry is going to give… Earlier this year, Harry posted a most excellent screed in which he said: The web as a platform is a safe bet. It’s un-versioned by design. That’s the commitment the web makes to you...| Adactio: Journal
Half of the line-up of speakers for Web Day Out is already on the site. One more is already confirmed. I’m ridiculously excited about the way the line-up is taking shape, and judging by the zippiness of ticket sales, so are lots of my peers. Seriously, don’t wait to get your ticket or you might end up missing out completely. I’ve already got a shortlist of other people I could imagine on the line-up, but I’m open to more suggestions. If you’d like to speak at Web Day Out—or you kn...| Adactio: Journal
A one-day event all about what you can in web browsers today: Brighton, March 12th, 2026. Tickets are just £225+VAT!| adactio.com
When I was talking about monitoring web performance yesterday, I linked to the CrUX data for The Session. CrUX is a contraction of Chrome User Experience Report. CrUX just sounds better than CEAR. It’s data gathered from actual Chrome users worldwide. It can be handy as part of a balanced performance-monitoring diet, but it’s always worth remembering that it only shows a subset of your users; those on Chrome. The actual CrUX data is imprisoned in some hellish Google interface so some kind...| Adactio: Journal
Using generative large-language model tools? Sleeping well at night?| adactio.com
Whether you’re generating slop or code, underneath it’s the same shoggoth with a smiley face.| adactio.com
The best of the web is under continuous attack from the technology that powers your generative “AI” tools.| adactio.com
Technically, websites can do just about anything that native apps can do. And yet the actual experience of using the web on mobile is worse than ever.| adactio.com
Self-hosted sabotage as a form of collective action.| adactio.com
There is a crack, a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.| adactio.com
Citing Frank Chimero, Debbie Chachra, and Lisa O’Neill.| adactio.com
Progressive enhancement, developer convenience, and isomorphic JavaScript.| adactio.com
Defining the inputs instead of trying to control the outputs.| adactio.com
You can launch web apps as standalone apps on Mac now.| adactio.com
Enhance your website, progressively.| adactio.com