Bruce Lawson

@brucel

Web standards Lovegod, 'like a punk jesus'. Works . Co-wrote 'Introducing HTML5'. Has MS. Poetry/ music/ puns fan. Liberal atheist. RT≠+1 ❄️♿🕉️🎸🇬🇧♂️

Birmingham, UK
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Joined January 2007
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    13 Oct 2017

    I disagree with what you say, but will defend to death your right to say it. But that doesn't mean I want to waste my time listening to you.

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  2. 31 Dec 2018

    Signing off to rest, read and recharge (I've never liked New Years Eve). Whether you're resting, partying or something in between, have a good evening. See you all in 2019 for more high fashion and web standards get-off-my-lawn-ing. You're all totez adorbz. xxx

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    30 Dec 2018

    "Mobile is the future" -

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  4. 31 Dec 2018

    Mucking about with GitHub and listening to Pet Shop Boys loud to fend off the melancholia that New Year always gives me.

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  5. 31 Dec 2018

    2018: A Smashing Year In Review "We’re not just the publishers of an online magazine or conference organizers, we are people who work in the web industry."

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  6. 31 Dec 2018

    Firefox with ads on New Tab Page - doesn't seem to send info to 3rd parties, but to turn it off, uncheck 'snippets' in preferences.

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  7. 31 Dec 2018

    Can't believe it's only one day until the Year of the Linux Desktop.

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  8. 31 Dec 2018

    Just been to the police station with Simon, my pet snail. He was coming back from the pub last night and two tortoises mugged him. The police asked him to describe them but apparently it all happened too fast.

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  9. 31 Dec 2018

    Serves me right. I'd been doing well with the continuous deployment from GitHub to the Smashing Site, so confidently pushed to Master on Saturday between Xmas and New Year. Deploy failed. In classical Greece, this over-confidence was known as "GitHubris".

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    30 Dec 2018

    I write a talk especially for each year. They have released the video of my talk from 2018 which is mostly about sizing and alignment in CSS Grid. Watch it here and find slides and resources at

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  11. 30 Dec 2018

    More of the intrepid souls at the Birmingham tech drinkies last night.

    Brum tech drinks!!
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  12. 29 Dec 2018

    It wasn't my brother, it was my dad's brother.

    Me: I saw Elastica before they were famous : I can beat that; I saw the Jam before they were famous Me (worried): I can beat that; my dad saw Queen before they were famous : my dad saw the Rolling Stones before they were famous. And my brother supported. Goddammit.
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  13. 29 Dec 2018

    Pontificating about web standards to the great and the good of the Birmingham web scene. Or those still standing after an 11 hour pub crawl. (I showed up 2 hours ago.)

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  14. 29 Dec 2018

    Stop adding cancer-causing chemicals to our bacon, experts tell meat industry < Yes, not deliberately adding carcinogens seems like quite a good idea, tbh.

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  15. 29 Dec 2018

    Tidied up a recent recording of a song I wrote in my teens when I was a big Buzzcocks/ Undertones fan. Bass is guide only, whole thing needs mixing.

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  16. 29 Dec 2018

    (Friends of mine in the Chrome team know that this isn't an anti-Google tirade, btw. I know they want a diverse eco-system, too. But I'm just making it explicit, in case anyone misunderstands this as me being anti-Chrome or anti-Google.) </missive>

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  17. 29 Dec 2018

    If you don't know of Facebook Container, here's the details: . Here's the splendid Grid Inspector: I also appreciate the much lighter RAM use than Chromium browsers; I like a quiet laptop! .

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  18. 29 Dec 2018

    Part of my switch is for 'meta' reasons; protecting , and protecting my privacy. Container tabs for Facebook is brilliant, and I trust them not to misuse my data. But also, with Servo etc, it's a bloody fast browser and dev tools for CSS Grid etc are indispensable.

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  19. 29 Dec 2018

    But once gets his arse back into the office and implements it, I'll be on Firefox for Android, too.

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  20. 29 Dec 2018

    Switching to Firefox as my default desktop browser, because we need to protect Mozilla now the world's going Chromium. But phone browser is still Opera Mobile because when I zoom on small text, it reflows it to avoid horizontal scrolling - a killer feature for an Oldie like me.

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  21. 28 Dec 2018

    Now gonna drink 3 bottles of vodka and write my medium post on Bandersnatch, quantum mechanics,the multiverse, and Schrodinger's cat, called "Quandercats".

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