"An error occurred". Why is this the same story with every Government procurement portal ever?

I tried "contact our Customer Support Team" about this error and the contact form sent me straight to this error page.

FFS stop wasting my time Proactis you bunch of cowboys.

What’s new in web typography?

This is a question I’ll be answering at this year’s https://webdayout.com

I’ll run along the cowpaths that have been paved and spend time with the new and shiny things that bring expressiveness, fine detail, responsiveness, consistency and efficiency to your work: variable fonts in all their glory, typographic units, drop-caps, hanging punctuation, `text-box-trim`, container-aware fonts and fluid type.

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#typography #css

Saddened to hear that the wonderful Drift Records will be closing its doors at the end Feb. Whenever I was in that part of the world (Totnes, Devon) I'd make a point of going there for a good rummage, and never came away empty handed.

I'll be sure to use my Drift tote bag next time I'm record shopping, and hope to bump into Drift founder Rupert, who is making my local shop (Resident Records) his new home.

https://driftrecords.com/blogs/drift/drift-records

In the early 1940s, Directors General of the BBC, Cecil Graves and William Haley spoke about the revolutionary technology of radio and television broadcasting.

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Now read that again, this time replacing ‘broadcasting’ with ‘AI’ and imagine how different things could be if the tech giants and their acolytes took that approach rather than the complete opposite.

#ai #bbc

TIL about `initial-letter-wrap` as a handy way to wrap text around a drop cap. Sadly its 'at risk' as there is no browser support at the moment. Good candidate for progressive enhancement though.

https://drafts.csswg.org/css-inline/#initial-letter-wrapping

#css #typography

Quick reminder that if you've got some UX training budget, @UXLondon ticket prices go up at midnight TONIGHT, so grab them while you can.

At @Clearleft we design UX London to provide the best training for *our* staff, so I'm pretty confident it'll work for you and your teams too!

https://2025.uxlondon.com/
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#ux #uxdesign

Me, my colleagues, and seemingly everyone else in the world who has to use Google products...

"I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that." anyone?