Morgan Murrah on Morgan Murrah - morganwebdev.org

Audio Gear

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0000

I can kinda make some noise with this stuff?

I like recording memorable short samples and then being reminded of places, times, and spaces:

Sounds from Kung-fu movies and then chopping the sample to something smaller, that sounds like a drumbeat
Memorable vox pop quotes from friends
Memorable moments in time, such as my wedding day

More to come… but this is my gear:

EP-133

EP-136

EP-40

Ting Microphone

The ability to game

Mon, 27 Jul 2026 09:00:00 -0800

At some point, I started to lose the ability to have mindless fun. Workaholism affected me in many ways… then I let games back into my life.

The deadlines. The importance of the work. The meaningfulness of volunteering as adjacent work. It all started to weigh on me.

The assessment of my life in recent years was rough. Working too much, pouring oneself into volunteer work. Everyone was giving me signals to relax for my own benefit and somewhat of others.

New Horizons: like the dawn

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Sometimes it is good to reflect on past progress and difficulties, with the explicit desire to broaden one’s horizons.

By the term broadening one’s horizons I imply a desire to broaden ones perspective of what is possible in the future, out of more narrow options considered from recent experiences.

Lets consider what I intend by the term horizon, with an ode to the dawning of the day:

I think of the Dawn where new indirect sunlight filters into the sky. Thats seeing the horizon, before the sun hits directly. The Dawn is on the horizon, and it provides the first signals of the sun to come.

Introducing an HTML Resume

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 09:00:00 -0800

You can find my HTML Resume here, dated July 15

The purpose

Starting the middle of August, I will be hunting for a job or something more concrete than what I am doing now, which is essentially freelance and contract/project work.

The specs

A single HTML File, under 15kb uncached, easy to cache.

Tested with some screen readers such as VoiceOver and built with fluid typography, it is a simple design designed to please on mobile and desktop.

People, Planet, Prosperity: Sorted

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 12:00:00 -0800

As always, consider checking out the WSG’s, now with new content filters (top left).

Hot off the code presses- The Web Sustainability Guidelines now has the ability to filter by People, Planet and Prosperity content filters.

This allows you to see when and how various success criteria might impact. Need to prioritize short term wins? Or curious about the indeterminate (currently) longer term future? Its in there now!

This update almost seemed too small to update, I mean Ive been volunteering on the WSGs for a while and seen a lot of this content for a while in the works…

Return of CSS Outline

Sat, 04 Jul 2026 12:00:00 -0800

An example input that has keyboard focus and has a nice blue outline around it with CSS:

This is basically how it should be, and could look very differently in style, but it is important that it is there

Outlines around focused elements such as buttons and inputs are important for keyboard users and people with different vision levels to use your websites. Since 2022 there is little excuse against properly setting these up, but there is a history of issues with outlines on the web and not every resource explains the issue.

Impact.

Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

From the first day I knew of the Web Sustainability Guidelines I knew that there would always be a push to understand what the impact will be. Why should we do this? Tell us more.

Yesterday, The Web Sustainability Guidelines took a major step towards this approach with the world community of people who may be interested in its works:

Impact Measurement

The ratings and timeframes support prioritisation of guidelines based on expected impact and when that impact is likely to occur across people, planet, and prosperity.

June 2026: Life as a free agent and the year ahead

Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Im on the lookout for my next thing! What that might even be is up for consideration. Ive got a lot of support and stuff to keep me busy.

Now->August 19: Relaxing, re-envisioning, small projects, a bunch of words to say not much yet. Includes travel, one wedding, small project work.

2-6+ Months of searching for a new opportunity. All the usual. Job Boards, Networking, Research.

6-9+ If no new opportunity yet, consider retraining, doing certifications. Solidly considering whats a good fit and going there.

Marketing Operations: working in a regulated pharmaceutical website industry

Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:00:00 -0800

In the pharmaceutical and medical device industries, PRB stands for a Promotional Review Board. These boards are what I have been effectively working under the guidance of, indirectly, for the last three years. The marketers and regulatory staff I worked with reported to those boards to get their materials approved and had to make them agreeable to the board. My job was to build the thing as close as technically possible to what is approved.

Albums, Indie Games and Music Gear

Mon, 25 May 2026 09:00:00 -0800

I have three particularly loved hobbies in recent years. I have acquired a small but mighty collection of these three things:

Owning music significantly from Bandcamp. I have previously posted about my approach to music discovery.
Playdate games from significantly very indie Devs (note, I reviewed the Playdate).
Gear from Teenage Engineering for making music and sounds (previously posted about this).

Here are three lists. No links, just some albums, games and music gear names that I calculated with some basic DOM Scripting. This is not meant to celebrate consuming but to appreciate some curation and collection. Ive got some cool stuff I wanted to post it!

List of Lists May 2026

Sun, 24 May 2026 09:00:00 -0800

Hand-typed list of lists

Music

Amamelia
Shostakovich: Symphony #11 In G Minor, Op. 103, “The Year 1905” - 1. The Palace Square
Casino Royale soundtrack

Events

(past) IndieWeb Zinefest
(past) Ski to Sea Bellingham (attendee/viewer in Fairhaven)

Domain management

One is expiring soon, prepared it for expiry, letting it go!

De-googling

Moved email off Gmail for now.
Backed up a bunch of stuff, to prepare to decommission a google account

Fonts

Berkeley Mono on all my terminals and monospace environments

Books

Zines NZ by Bryce Galloway, reading this when it arrives!

Some Past Works

I still like this project, wsg-o-matic.

Taking a look at

HTMX 4 - using it experimentally on my own static site.

Sensible Defaults?

VS Code using its new integrated browser by default sort of annoyed me

Learning Linux

MX Linux - for home usage
Raspberry Pi - not sure what to do with it
MeshCore - Trying out a radio device

The beauty of partnership and teamwork to improve access

Fri, 15 May 2026 12:00:00 -0800

There was a phrase I used back in the day. It came from my heritage, and inspired by the ideals I learned from being the son of a vietnam veteran who was drafted and resisted war afterwards for the rest of his life.

Neither Master Nor Slave - an emotive phrase that expressed a value for peership, collaboration, over top down power structures.

In this world we have a few roles. We are either a breaker of chains or we are chained, or we put the chains on others. Sometimes these roles change, and develop, and change back again. We contain multitudes.

Obsidian: works for me, and what I put in will work for the future.

Fri, 01 May 2026 09:00:00 -0800

The problem

Ive been in a malaise. Many software products around notes and knowledge keeping are not quite a good fit, and the effort Ive put into them seems lost years later. You can tap stuff into them… or write big important notes… and they just dont seem handy or manageable afterwards.

Keep, Apple Notes, Evernote… Ive tried a few. They did not feel built to last.

Keep and Apple Notes are locked into the walled garden system in a database and not as easily worked with. Often they dont sync with file systems or work well with common file management tools. Basically I might put a few grocery lists in there, but all my actual important thoughts seemed too important to put there.

Morgan Murrah Technical CV Info 2026

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000

This information focuses in on formal educational background and core technical experience from several roles in my career.

NEW!: See my most recent HTML Resume here

Undergraduate Degrees

LLB – Bachelor of Laws 2013

Major: Law – Otago University, Dunedin, New Zealand. Newspaper Article of 2013 LLB Ceremony in Otago Daily Times

BA – Bachelor of Arts 2013

Major: Classics, Minor: English – Otago University, Dunedin, New Zealand. Newspaper Article of 2013 BA Ceremony in Otago Daily Times

Professional Remote Worker Technology Career 2017-2026+

CG Life, 2025 - June 2026 Delivered high quality responsive websites in a multi skilled role requiring attention to detail. Tools used include JavaScript, CSS, HTML, .YML, Puppeteer, Adobe Experience Manager. Prepared and Quality Assured many important updates and launches for brands in the heavily regulated medical product space. Took on the title of Operations Specialist in July 2025.

Celebrating Three year work anniversary

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:00:00 -0800

Ive been employed for three years at one agency, CG Life. It has and continues to be incredible good experience and a great place to work.

I make websites. I problem solve. I get a lot done.

Playdate Review: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Sun, 05 Apr 2026 09:00:00 -0800

I ordered my Playdate in 2024 and its still going incredibly strong in my inventory!

Premise, Promise, Motivation

The ads for Playdate show it just lying on a table, calm and resting, independent and curated, pick up and play. No online chaos, at least not yet… that feature is coming for those who want it!

For now, mostly an offline experience. A dose of something different.

Loved the first season

Whitewater Wipeout. Casual Birder. Echoic Memory. All of them engaged my attention!

Benefits of static or mostly static web pages

Fri, 13 Mar 2026 09:00:00 -0800

In this post Ill attempt to use three example static websites I have made… and highlight one thing I like about them and maybe a drawback.

I have a lot of potential projects to keep maintained and do at least partly for fun. These projects are meant to be a impementation of some static or client sided experience that is helpful but done with minimal footprint.

WSG-o-matic example. You can do a lot with URL Params on a static website

Basically you can load in some param information from the URL to load from static content. For this example website, https://wsg-o-matic.com/, WSG-o-matic allows you to revisit the specific guideline of the Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSGs) from a URL Param contained inside a data format loadable on the client side such as potentially JSON as in this example:

Causes I like in March 2026

Wed, 11 Mar 2026 09:00:00 -0800

Today I thought about that adage, “Think globally, act locally”. Sometimes I get a chance to act a little global too- in narrow volunteer technical work, as an Invited Expert at the W3C.

Right now there are three organizations which give me a lot of life:

Global: The World Wide Web Consortium
State-wide: Whole Washington
Local: Community First Whatcom

W3C - The World Wide Web consortium

Ive been engaged at the W3C for a few years as a volunteer. Recently I wrote this and got a great response:

Update on Whatcom Public Hospital Education: What about the board?

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 09:00:00 -0800

The website WhatcomPublicHospital.org continues to grow.

Now to start adding sections about candidates processes…

Some things for a start:

Teamwork - long terms, long term projects, need someone who is going to stick around and do the work!
Leadership - Politics do matter. The whole point of electing someone is that they need to best represent the people as much as possible.
Accountability - Someone who can see if they have a gap or need to defer. This skill is often associated with humility.

Pixel 7 Battery Eruption: 2.75 years old phone lifespan

Sat, 28 Feb 2026 09:00:00 -0800

It started gradually. The battery level seemed to be changing sometimes I checked the phone. I sensed something seemed weird.

Then it started switching off randomly… I knew its life might be short…

I started to react immediately. I plugged it in and ensured android backups were being updated and taken with my google account I connected it to my computer and made extra backups of photos and downloads and data that I could with Android File Transfer.

Unbundling my phone, Taking photos with my eyes

Fri, 27 Feb 2026 09:00:00 -0800

It is sometimes said that in the beginning, online was a place you went to and then left when you were finished. In most representations this was the usage of a desktop computer on a 56k connection, which basically meant when the internet connection was turned off it was off for everyone in the house.

Now, most of us realize that the online can follow us everywhere in our pockets. Data streamed to us everywhere, on the pocket computer.

Tangata Tiriti and what it means for me

Mon, 16 Feb 2026 09:00:00 -0800

Check out TangataTiriti.org

It is a work in progress but the content is a faithful reproduction of the documents of the treaty in different languages with commentary.

The Treaty of Waitangi established the basis for all people in New Zealand to be. It is a foundation for my family having lived there and become citizens.

The basic thing we can do is acknowledge it, honor it, and consider our continuing goals of partnership into the present.

Caw-fe ☕

Sun, 15 Feb 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Caw page under caw-nstruction!

Samples of Dub/Reggae

Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -1000

Samples 20s duration

I made these with the sounds that came with the EP-40 factory. I selected the drums, rhythm, melody and some special effects to make the samples. This is meant to illustrate the ease of making some nice sounding starter loops.

Sample 1 "Bouncy"

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Sample 2 "Dub"

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Sample 3 "Reggae"

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Sample 4 "Riddim"

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Sample 5 "Sample"

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Sample 6 "Style"

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About Morgan Murrah

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 12:00:00 +0000

👋 Hey there! My name is Beau Morgan Murrah.

I reside in Washington State, USA. I like reading, learning and working on interesting projects with teams of people.

In terms of hobbies I like walking, gaming, reading, coffee, and volunteering. I also have a nearly decade long career in web technology and worked as a law clerk some years before that.

Culturally I am a part of a small group of American New Zealanders (American by birth, gained New Zealand citizenship by residency and meeting requirements). There are less than 40k of us.

An Original Layering Machine: Part 1

Sun, 18 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -1000

Unboxing an exciting piece of Reggae inspired music gear

Known as a EP-40, this arrived in the mail today:

It is a interesting music sampler with a lot of features. Check it out! The artwork is amazing to me…

This is the microphone called the Ting- it is comparably lo-fi to the main board.

The Ting accepts a USB-C input and can be configured with JSON of all things! Im learning more about this.

Coffee Crawl 2026

Fri, 09 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0000

DONE for 2026! This was a lot of fun

5th Annual Bellingham Coffee Crawl (Morgan-inspired edition)

May 16th 2026 - Saturday - 11am-4pm - Bellingham, WA

Four locations, Fun on a Saturday the 16th!

Avellino’s 11am-12:15pm
- Where we will start for breakfast food- and coffee!
Short walk to Camber but take our time…
Camber 12:30pm-2pm
- A classic
Ashuri 2pm-3pm
- Another classic, a staple, get a strong wonderful turkish coffee I’d say!
Cafe Velo 3pm-4pm
- The atmosphere and beer make this a good end of the event location!

Making An Updated TheProject.html

Thu, 01 Jan 2026 09:00:00 -0800

Visit this hyperlink: https://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

It is, to my knowledge, a strongly faithful source code reproduction of the original world wide website.

And it works

In 2025, on a modern browser, it just works. When inspected with the verbose mode enabled on the W3C Validator, in 2025, it comes up with several errors, warnings and information items. But it works. It works either served on CERN’s website, or as a local HTML file opened in a browser, or served locally with a server. It. Works.

About Skip Links

Tue, 16 Dec 2025 08:00:00 -0800

The first thing I notice

When I attempt to operate a website with a keyboard, which I do regularly, if a website has a skip link is one of the very first things I notice.

I notice particularly:

Does one exist? Should it exist?
Does it work as predicted by its accessible name (i.e skip to a main content, or skip navigation)?

We save ourselves from clutter all the time, skip links are a way of extending it to more people

If you are sighted, when you go to a mobile website you may be accustomed to the menu being hidden away in a collapsed menu. This is sometimes called a hamburger menu due to its common appearance in icons. This is to save the clutter of the menu away from taking up much of the screen. Take this principle, and expand it, and you have the same thing as a skip link.

All is water

Fri, 12 Dec 2025 12:00:00 -0800

As I write this tens of thousands are evacuated from areas of my surrounding area of Whatcom and Skagit Counties due to historic flooding. The sun came out today, but the rain is apparently due to return, and I do not know how many have been able to return to their homes.

If you want to see coverage, you can find it in a local newspaper the Cascadia Daily News that has made their coverage of the flooding free. Ron Judd has a particularly good capturing writing of the waters.

Happy Open Source: My first contribution to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)

Sat, 08 Nov 2025 12:00:00 -0800

I raised an issue in the WCAG Repository. It was accepted as valid in two days and then fixed in the code base within a week. This is pretty darn good considering the scale and consensus nature of many of the topics within the repository which are years long strategy issues for the roadmap kind of thing.

Basically, I found the low-hanging fruit and I grabbed it!

I had something to offer

In the course of working on Guideline-journey.com I had traversed and inspected a great deal of the JSON published by WCAG of the guidelines. I am still working through issues in my own app. I was sure others have taken a look at the JSON but it is relatively recently published so possibly I was the first to consider raising an issue I found.

Guideline-journey.com: an interactive experiment with WCAG JSON

Sat, 01 Nov 2025 12:00:00 -0800

Guideline-journey.com

Guideline-journey.com is an experiment I made in making the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) interactive in a slightly bespoke way. It is a small HTML/CSS/JS application using JSON formatted data from the guidelines.

The new stuff

Several versions of WCAG were recently released in JSON format. This project aimed to make use of this format into a small application, and giving proper credit back and linking back to the “mother project” of WAI and WCAG.

WSG-o-matic: Small Sustainability Wins

Sat, 01 Nov 2025 11:00:00 -0800

WSG-o-matic

Re-launched this website with an update on its own domain and on green hosting!

This website now gets 100’s on Ecograder, Lighthouse, Excellent WebPageTest results also.

The concept was simple and hopefully fun…

I would take the wonderful draft Web Sustainability Guidelines and provide a bite sized sample of the guidelines to hopefully spark further interest in the reader. Throw in a little randomness and whimsy with it as well to make it stick with people!

Simple Accessibility Tooling

Thu, 09 Oct 2025 08:00:00 -0800

Simplicity: “Worse is Better”

My approach to software acceptance has a history: “worse is better”, a term from a 1989 essay by Richard P. Gabriel (designer of Common Lisp). In essence, a simpler tool may be more readily adopted and improved upon than a complex tool being adopted and learned out of the gate.

In the influential essay it was argued that “worse” solutions could have better survival characteristics than the more complete solution that may be more complex for users to accept initially. The “worse” solution may in fact be better eventually because it could be improved upon until it was nearly as complete as the more “ideal” solution to start with.

From Spotify top 0.5% listener to exploring mixed media in 2025: Vinyl, CDs, MP3s and more

Fri, 03 Oct 2025 08:00:00 -0800

This article introduces an approach to enjoying music intended for an avid streaming service user who is questioning their reliance on any given streaming platform. It proposes a “mixed media diet” of physical media, digital media and streaming as needed but being intentional and realistic about it all.

I have listened to a lot of music in my life and likely you have too.

However, were you ever in the “top 0.5%” of Spotify listeners multiple years in a row? As a remote worker who loves my headphones and music, I earned this distinction several years in a row. The number of hours I clocked up was staggering. Then something changed… But things have always been changing.

Responsive Images: Pōhutukawa tree example

Tue, 09 Sep 2025 08:00:00 -0800

A beautiful tree

I recently re-learned some about responsive images, and have a practical demonstration to see the difference in action. If you visit this awesome website on a mobile phone in portrait mode, it will serve you a smaller and a different cropped resource than if you view it on landscape. This is done using the srcset attribute on an img tag as well as the picture element for greater control.

My inventory of websites

Thu, 28 Aug 2025 12:00:00 +0000

Domains currently deployed by me:

1. This website, Morganwebdev.org

My personal website, my presence and tech and civics information. Static website, minimal, has an accessibility statement.

2. WSG-o-matic, wsg-o-matic.com

An educational project in support of the W3C, thinking globally in favor of sustainability. Detailed here

3. Guideline-journey, guideline-journey.com

A journey through Web Content Accessibility Guidelines with JSON from the official project. An entry level attempt at making web accessibility interactive to explore on the client side.

4. Treaty of Waitangi Texts, tangatatiriti.org

A historical dedication to the Treaty of Waitangi, aspiring to be Tangata Tiriti - good faith, partnership promoting - in its representation. Uses semantic HTML practices, lang tags and details and summary elements intended to be more accessible.

5. Whatcom Public Hospital, whatcompublichospital.org

An important local policy explainer website I made. Extremely simple HTML CSS website.

+ Many Netlify and also some Cloudflare hosted projects.

Defining Optimism for the web

Fri, 08 Aug 2025 12:00:00 -0800

First, some 1989 web history

It is possible to take a very short tour of the history of the web from CERN. It is an excellent micro-history and summary of key facts and dates:

The Web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated information-sharing between scientists in universities and institutes around the world.

However, the narrative of the world wide web as something like hypertext had its origins in the scientific world before this.

Recent work and a look into Accessibility (A11y)

Sun, 27 Jul 2025 12:00:00 -0800

I strongly believe the concept that accessibility is for everyone; beneficial for everyone in practice and necessary for some. Indeed, it will be very relevant to all of us at some stage of our lives.

I would consider myself a journeyman web developer including for accessibility. I am above novice – but not yet a subject matter expert – but able to wield tools and make progress. I am humble to the experts that exist around me and before me and teach me.

Accessibility Statement

Sun, 27 Jul 2025 12:00:00 +0000

for Morganwebdev.org

This is an accessibility statement from Morgan Murrah.

Measures to support accessibility

morganwebdev.org takes the following measures to ensure accessibility of Morganwebdev.org:

Include accessibility as part of our mission statement.
Assign clear accessibility goals and responsibilities.
Align as much as possible to meet WCAG Standards.

Conformance status

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) defines requirements for designers and developers to improve accessibility for people with disabilities. It defines three levels of conformance: Level A, Level AA, and Level AAA. Morganwebdev.org is partially conformant with WCAG 2.2 level AA. Partially conformant and aiming for full conformance in future means that some parts of the content do not fully conform to the accessibility standard in that they haven't been strongly tested.

RUM for a small race-car website: Trying out SpeedCurve, RUMvision, mPulse

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:00:00 -0800

This Real User Monitoring (RUM) journey all started because this website is not likely to ever make it to the CrUX report. The logic for excluding small websites from the CrUX report makes sense: it must be publicly discoverable and there must be a large enough number of visitors in order to create a statistically significant dataset. Not every website can be included.

Still, I felt like I was missing out so I went looking for RUM solutions for the ’little guy’ i.e Morganwebdev.org who was not sufficiently popular. This led me trying three different services as a trial user and this post is my informal recap of my experience.

Web Sustainability Guidelines Facts

Fri, 11 Jul 2025 08:00:00 -0800

The following website is little project I cranked out in a short time to show my appreciation for the ongoing work going into sustainability at the W3C:

WSG Facts

Just listing some facts here as well, current as of July 11 2025-

92 Guidelines covering UX, Web Development, DevOps, & Business / Product Strategy.
254 Success Criteria to meet the guidelines on various aspects of sustainability.
160 advisory Techniques provided to meet Success Criteria.
2,500+ Resources (URLs) to assist with implementation of guidelines.
150+ contributors from over 20 nations around the world.
Iterated upon on by 48 participants (including 27 Invited Experts) representing 15 organizations in the Sustainable Web Interest Group.
Discussed in over 47 meetings. 24 + 12 Committee Meetings of the Community Group and 11+ Meetings of the Interest Group (ongoing).
The draft Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG) are under development.

An introduction to Custom Elements.

Sun, 01 Jun 2025 08:00:00 -0800

Web components are an interesting set of technologies with broad browser support… with a few constraints. In this lecture I talk about one of the fundamental building blocks of web components: custom elements.

The talk will hopefully present you with a useful perspective for any continued learning in the area. “Keep Calm and Use the Platform” as is sometimes said in the Web Component world!

YouTube Link: Video 37 Minutes

Thank you to the wonderful organizers of LFNW and the people who inspired this talk!

The Web's core power is the hyperlink

Sun, 01 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000

I retired this links page! no longer a static page, but rather, to be referenced in posts with tags, rather than a static list of links.

This is partially due to maintenance and wanting to reduce.

Find more on the site Thank you!

Hyperlink: an art project, exploring links

Sun, 11 May 2025 12:00:00 -0800

Prior Art: A bunch of hyperlinks – Recent inspiration

Art project: Hyperlink’s as subject, in historical context

Started with a repository…

Now it is deployed here:

Hyperlink deployment – a project linking out to others

Thinking of what browsers enable is truly astonishing. As Hypermedia Systems the book says: Hypermedia is a universal technology today, almost as common as electricity.

Invited Expert at the W3C: My role

Sat, 19 Apr 2025 12:00:00 -0800

On January 2 of this year I became an Invited Expert volunteer at an interest group of the W3C:

There is a formal and important process to ensure you are a good candidate to be invited to join and each group has its own policies and you can view the Sustainable Web Interest Group Policy that I joined under. I passed the test and committed to following the agreement when I was invited. It is no small thing!

Celebrating Loomio, 11 years on from social investment

Sun, 06 Apr 2025 08:00:00 -0800

See a great open source project: Loomio.

See The Crowd Funding Celebration page, 2014.

11 years on and I am happy I donated. And that organisations I volunteered for donated.

Today I heard someone ask about running an instance of Loomio and it gave me enormous joy. It is used by a variety of organizations and I believe helps make better decisions, to fulfill its mission.

More about why I like it later, but basically Im so happy to have donated. It is still a relevant and good project years on.

Some Highlights of the Web Almanac 2024

Tue, 12 Nov 2024 08:00:00 -0800

Appreciating the good work, people doing the effort

The community led organization of contributors behind the web almanac is something to behold and admire. Just look at their organization – the enormous effort put in – it is truly impressive. Lets just list some of the virtues of this project made of:

Values led, data driven

Look at the chapter on sustainability, particularly What’s New. See the effort put in to the research and the science basically, it is so good.

My General Thoughts On Web Performance

Thu, 08 Aug 2024 12:00:00 +0000

👋 Hello!

More to come here…

News: Web Sustainability Guidelines Drafts (WSG)

Sun, 07 Apr 2024 08:00:00 -0800

Check out the recently released Draft Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG)

Also, see the homepage for the group

As of recently I am now a participant in the W3C community group and if things go well I will be able to contribute something to an important set of guidelines!

Link to my volunteer Github issues and contributions

See release notes for D2, D6 for examples of @airbr being credited for contributions. That is me!

Why Test Website Performance?

Sat, 25 Feb 2023 08:00:00 -0800

Enjoyment. I get excited and intrigued from reading website performance tests of various kinds.
Civic duty. The performance of the web is generally a public interest issue.
Someday… work will call for it. The skills involved in understanding web performance issues are transferrable and important skills

WebPageTest offers a premium web service on top of OSS. It is possible to setup a private instance and I am working towards that goal. I am a big fan of WebPageTest, so much so that I ran out of my 1000 runs well before my plan renewal:

Zines

Tue, 17 Feb 2015 09:00:00 -0800

What is a Zine?

A zine is sometimes hard to define but you can pretty easily know one when you see one. Its about the spirit of the publication.

There are whole festivals and events around them, making them, sharing them often called zinefests. Typically a zine is a small run publication made in a DIY fashion. Zines evoke themes of independence, creativity and sometimes ephemerality. They can be free or sold.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000