Ashley Watson-Nolan

Of all the things that never happened, this is the thing that never happened the most. #16DaysUntilTheBeginningOfTheEND-IfYouVOTE 🗳️ ✅

We were chatting about this exact thing in our team last week – it's a habit that devs need to make sure they don't pickup: Don't be a meat proxy gruhn.me/blog/2026-08... #ai #dev

So I've just been messing around with herdr and moshi and I now feel like that bit in The Matrix where Neo chooses the red pill and fell down the rabbit-hole 🤣

This is sad news. At a time when gamers are already stretched financially, and console prices rising, Sony are killing off the 2nd hand game market for their games to stick the knife in blog.playstation.com/2026/07/01/p...

For anyone who knows a little person with a Yoto, check out Animal Facts. It’s a dynamic card app, narrated by my 7 yr old daughter Alice, which is now featured as part of the Yoto digital club collection. Check it out and let us know what you think!

Looking forward to a great day of talks at @pixelpioneers.co today!

We're hosting the Pixel Pioneers Warm-up at JET's Bristol office next Thursday 18th June, with talks from Molly India Nye, Jamie Maguire and Marwa Gorvan. The event is free – grab your ticket here: ti.to/pixel-pionee...

It's been a while, but I've been working on updating my site so that I can start posting again. To give an idea of how ancient the old code is, it uses RequireJS, Grunt, and floats for CSS layout (everywhere). Releasing the new version will be like removing a huge weight from my back 😆

If you're in Bristol the night before Pixel Pioneers, come to a meetup at the Just Eat offices for some lightning talks and chat. We're on the harbourside just along from the venue 👇

Candi Williams is bringing the words at @pixelpioneers.co Bristol 2026 — with a talk on how language shapes great UX. Because every button label, error message, and tiny bit of copy is doing more work than you think. 👀 📍 Arnolfini, Bristol 📅 June 19 🎟️ pixelpioneers.co/events/brist...

CSS is DOOMed! nielsleenheer.com/articles/202...

50 days to go! @pixelpioneers.co is back in Bristol on 19 June, this time covering: 🚀 Browser support 🧑‍💻 UI layouts 🌱 Web sustainability 🤝 Accessibility 𖨆𖨆𖨆 Better collaboration ✍ Content design 🎵 Music with HTML 📈 Web performance 🧩 Design systems Tix: pixelpioneers.co/events/brist...

reading: NHS Goes To War Against Open Source shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05... Sigh.

Most difficult thing about parenting at Easter - remembering that you’ve put chocolate eggs inside the oven, microwave, shower and balanced on cupboard doors and not using any of those things before they’re found in the morning

The 2026 WebAIM Accessibility Report is out, and honestly, it makes me a bit sad. After years of slow but steady improvement, accessibility on the web is getting worse again. Full report: webaim.org/projects/mil...

Some crazy stats in here about the number of satellites we’ve now launches into orbit. Nice visualisations too www.theguardian.com/science/ng-i...

Really love the new W3C logo – simple but modern change www.w3.org/blog/2025/w3...

I'm really interested to hear devs' thoughts on this – When interviewing, do you prefer Live Coding or Take Home tests? I've made a poll on Reddit, which would be great if you could respond to, but I'd love to hear any thoughts on here too! www.reddit.com/r/webdev/com...

If you want to fully dive down the rabbit-hole with CSS Layers, @css-tricks.bsky.social has (as ever) the go-to explainer css-tricks.com/css-cascade-...

Feel very late to the game, but I've been reading up today on CSS Layers, especially with regard to reset styles. This article gives a good intro to why you'd want to use them with your reset styles > mayank.co/blog/css-res...

Super cool to see Shopify Polaris (built on Web Components) has now become stable! www.shopify.com/partners/blo...

Amazingly, our very own PIE Design System has been nominated in the 2025 Design System Awards for Best Adoption! If you'd like to help us out, you can drop us a vote in that category on the link below 👇👇🙏 awards.zeroheight.com/voting/

Want to work with me? (don't let that put you off!) We're looking for a talented Frontend Developer to join our Design System team at JET, working on pie.design – based in either our Bristol or Berlin office. If you're interested, drop me a DM! careers.justeattakeaway.com/global/en/jo...

I’ve been hacking on a personal project the last couple of weeks. I’d almost forgotten how freeing it was to push code without waiting for code reviews and comments 😂

Really enjoyed speaking at the @pixelpioneers.co warmup event this evening! Good luck to all of the speakers tomorrow - tremendous line up of talks to look forward to

📣 We've teamed up with Just Eat to bring you a warm-up on the night before @pixelpioneers.co Bristol! Featuring talks by @gerireid.com and @ashn.uk and @whitep4nth3r.com! The event is free to attend, but as space is limited, please register to reserve your spot: pixelpioneers.co/events/brist...

In other news, I’ve been playing around using Cursor this week and enjoying it so far. It’s extremely good in certain use cases and can see myself using it a lot more > www.cursor.com/en

Wish the UK government would take more action in this area - mobile phones and social media do more damage to anyone under 16 than any supposed benefits www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I have covered presidential politics for 40 years. This was the most juvenile display by a President and Vice President I have ever seen. Other presidents treated their enemies with more respect. This is a low point and a dark day for the US. Totally embarrassing.

Also, I'm almost ashamed to say that I had no idea that there was now a <search> HTML element?! Just goes to show how easy it is to miss things when working with the fast moving worlds of CSS/JS now #PracticalA11y

Having that moment today after watching just enough of #PracticalA11y that I realise how hard some areas of our site must be to navigate for screen reader users. Learnt a lot about landmarks this week and the best way of using them to signpost content.

Don’t let anyone ever tell you that web components aren’t performant They can absolutely flyyy 😮‍💨

Happy to hear @syntax.fm predicting more Web Component usage on their 2025 Web Dev Predictions episode! I do feel like we're at a tipping point where more devs will start using them, as more tools like Web Awesome get released later in the year. syntax.fm/show/866/202... #web

In other news, I’m off to Amsterdam with work for a couple of days, and words can’t describe how excited I am to go back to the Tony’s Superstore and make my own chocolate bar again 😂

Feeling like I need a mute button in my head for anything Trump related for 4 years right now

Been v busy to start the year off, mostly discussing how to improve the performance of the JET Customer platform. Will definitely need to write up some of it all once we get going, as I reckon at least 50% of the things we find when auditing our sites are such simple perf issues

News like this is bad for everyone. Companies should have a stronger back bone, but money clearly talks… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Had our End of Year 2024 Team Celebrations today. It’s so motivating to actually stop, look back and realise what you’ve achieved together before mentally moving on to the New Year

Been reading a lot of web component articles lately. It’s clear that users fall into two categories - those who want encapsulation, and those who don’t want encapsulation, just the chance to reuse markup and styles natively

Asked for a Sausage breakfast roll with ketchup from Greggs. Opened on train - got a bacon breakfast roll with HP. Not sure what to believe in anymore

This Year's State of JavaScript Results are now out! Always good to see the current usage and sentiment of what's being used across the industry > State of JavaScript 2024 https://2024.stateofjs.com/en-US #js