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🚂 Planes, trains, and automobiles – September’s roundup from tempertemper
October 1, 2024
What a month! I’ve been on the road with work, delivering accessibility workshops and putting on accessibility empathy labs. I’ve visited offices in London...
😅 Hard work taking a holiday! – August’s roundup from tempertemper
August 31, 2024
Even the most relaxing holiday is bookended by what feels like more work than normal: making sure everything is in good shape before closing the laptop, then...
🏅 Going for gold! – July’s roundup from tempertemper
July 31, 2024
The 2024 Olympic Games are upon us! I’m not particularly patriotic so it has been a good sit-back-and-enjoy experience so far. You’ll be happy to hear that,...
✅ Time to vote! – June’s roundup from tempertemper
June 30, 2024
There’s a general election here in the UK in a few days’ time; I’ll be down at the local polling station early to cast my vote. Aside from that, I’ll be...
😅 Global Accessibility Awareness Day! – May’s roundup from tempertemper
May 31, 2024
It has been quite the month! My team and I, alongside our network of Accessibility Champions, decided to go all-in on this year’s Global Accessibility...
🌤️ Here comes the sun! – April’s roundup from tempertemper
April 30, 2024
We’ve had a lovely sunny day and 17°C today in the North East of England! After a long, gloomy winter, that bit of warmth and the longer days makes...
🥚 Happy chocolate egg day!
March 31, 2024
It's Easter Sunday so for a lot of people that means one thing: chocolate! This morning, the kids on my street were out in numbers to hunt the eggs that the...
🐸 Leap year day! – February’s roundup from tempertemper
February 29, 2024
A slightly-longer-than-usual shortest-month-of-the-year has also proved to be my busiest month in a while… No articles for you this time round, but I did do...
✅ New Year’s resolutions – January’s roundup from tempertemper
January 31, 2024
Happy New Year! I’m settling into 2024 nicely and, after the indulgences over the festive period, am nicely back on track with good habits like daily...
🎅 Festive fun – December’s roundup from tempertemper
December 31, 2023
The festive period is nearly over and, like me, I hope you’ve eaten your body weight in rich food and chocolate. Still a day or two to eat, drink, and be...
🗓️ Advent calendars at the ready! – November’s roundup from tempertemper
December 3, 2023
We’re officially into the festive season, so presents are being bought, trees are up, and advent calendars have begun to be opened. I’m here to share the...
💀 Happy Halloween – October’s roundup from tempertemper
October 31, 2023
I’m just back from a fun evening trick-or-treating with the kids (or should I say Pikachu and Thing 1 from The Cat in the Hat) so, before I hit the sack, I...
🎂 Life gets in the way – September’s roundup from tempertemper
October 1, 2023
September is my favourite month of year; the days feel just the right length, the weather’s still decent, and it contains my birthday! I’ve been so busy with...
✈️ Summer holidays – August’s roundup from tempertemper
August 31, 2023
August brought with it a very welcome break with the family in Spain. I took a short break from writing about accessibility too, and instead wrote a couple...
👧🏻👦🏼 School's out! – July’s roundup from tempertemper
July 31, 2023
The school summer holidays are upon us! Our kids have been off for just over a week and, as a result of careful routine planning and some tactical days off...
🍎 WWDC excitement – June’s roundup from tempertemper
June 30, 2023
On the 5th of this month Apple held their World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) and it’s an event I look forward to watching every year. This year was a...
🗣️ Global Accessibility Awareness Day – May’s roundup from tempertemper
May 31, 2023
May the 18th was Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) 2023, a day where accessibility geeks like me make a big old fuss about designing and building...
👾 Star Wars Day’s nearly here! - April’s roundup from tempertemper
April 30, 2023
April kicked off with April Fool's Day, and the Easter weekend quickly followed, but my favourite day at this time of year is always May the 4th (Star Wars...
🌥️ Winter is over - March’s roundup from tempertemper
March 31, 2023
It’s finally feeling a bit warmer after what has felt like a long winter. Funnily enough, this month’s articles come with the two longest titles in my back...
👀 Blink and you’ll miss it! - February’s roundup from tempertemper
February 28, 2023
It never fails to surprise me how quickly February draws to a close. I had a week's holiday, which made it feel even shorter than normal, but I still managed...
🤝 Happy new year – January’s roundup from tempertemper
January 31, 2023
A busy start to the new year as we're finally approaching the end of a five year home renovation project. I'd've liked to have written more, but managed one...
🎊 It’s Hogmanay! – December’s roundup from tempertemper
December 31, 2022
2022 is nearly over, and what a year… again! Amongst the uncertainty at least one thing is still constant: I’ve written a couple of articles for you! Images,...
⚽️ Winter World Cup – November’s roundup from tempertemper
November 30, 2022
Being a Scotsman, I'm not a big fan of international football 😅 But I do enjoy catching the odd match when the World Cup's on; in between watching Spain,...
🧟♂️ Zombie! – October’s roundup from tempertemper
October 31, 2022
🪦🧟♂️ The zombies are out – October’s roundup from tempertemper It’s Halloween today and, in the lead-up, my 11 year old’s friends have been sharing creepy...
😳 Quite the month! – September’s roundup from tempertemper
September 30, 2022
September has been quite the month here in the UK; we’ve seen the death of a monarch, yet another new Government, and of course there’s been the annual rush...
💪 Hard fought – August’s roundup from tempertemper
August 31, 2022
Some articles take longer to write than others. I only published one in August but it was a long time in the making! I began writing it in March 2021, and it...
☀️ Scorchio! – July's roundup from tempertemper
July 31, 2022
After a month with the hottest temperatures ever recorded here in the UK, normal weather has thankfully resumed. Me? Despite the blistering heat, I've made...
🚴♂️ Cycle season – June's roundup
June 30, 2022
After working from home for more than two years, I've been enjoying the odd trip to the office recently. It's 15 kilometres away, which is a nice distance to...
🏳️🌈 Inclusivity and HTML – May's roundup
May 31, 2022
It's June tomorrow, which means the beginning of Pride Month; a time to celebrate how far we've come with civil rights, but a reminder that we still have a...
💡 One Thing – April’s roundup
April 30, 2022
May is nearly upon us, and on the 19th it’s Global Accessibility Awareness Day (or GAAD). I have a challenge for you! Take some time to do one thing to make...
🦠 Colds and Covid – March’s roundup
March 31, 2022
March began with a nasty cold that one of the kids brought home; then, after two very careful years, I caught COVID-19. Luckily, it didn't hit me as hard as...
🥞 Pancakes and posts – February's roundup
February 28, 2022
Every morning, I wake up nice and early to work on my blog before the kids surface, but tomorrow is pancake day so I’ll be using a bit of that writing time...
🏃♂️ Working off those festive calories – January’s roundup
January 31, 2022
I don't know about you, but I enjoy a wee bit of indulgence over the festive period: chocolate, good food, a few drinks with family and friends. But I've...
🥳 Happy new year! December’s roundup
December 31, 2021
As 2021 draws to a close, there's just enough time to put together your monthly roundup of the articles from my blog: Design for everyone Safari 15’s Tab...
🎄 The festive season is here – November's roundup
November 30, 2021
I think I might have broken an unwritten rule as we picked up our Christmas tree today and it’s not December until tomorrow… What else have I been up to this...
👻 Boo! October's roundup
October 31, 2021
It’s Halloween, I’ve just been guising with the kids, and they were given more chocolates and sweeties than they’ll ever manage to eat! If I could give you a...
📣 Talking the talk – September’s roundup
September 30, 2021
During September, a couple of presentations I gave went live on YouTube. The first from Content Folks, where my colleague Josie Linsel and I spoke about the...
🏖 Some end-of-summer downtime – August’s roundup
August 31, 2021
I took a wee bit of time off during August, so just a single post for you this month, but one well worth reading if you’re looking to make your website load...
🎉 A new-look website – July’s roundup
July 31, 2021
I kicked off July by releasing version 6 of www.tempertemper.net, the biggest visual change since 2014. I also wrote a couple of note-to-self posts so that I...
☀️ Ten scorching posts! – June’s roundup
June 30, 2021
May’s productivity carried over into June, with the number of posts reaching double figures. In particular, I’ve rediscovered Keynote, covered CSS’s...
☔️ Precipitation and productivity – May’s roundup
May 31, 2021
May was very wet here in the UK. But staying indoors meant I wrote plenty of blog posts! I started by continuing to look at git restore, shifted my attention...
👨🏻🍳 Cooking with gas* – April's roundup
April 30, 2021
It has been a good, productive month: our new kitchen is finally finished, and I wrote six blog posts and have four or five solid drafts in the works. *...
🌱 Spring is here – March newsletter
March 31, 2021
March is nearly over, the sun is no longer a distant memory, and lockdown restrictions are beginning to ease. Things are looking up! This month’s posts A bit...
⛄️ What a cold February that was! – tempertemper Newsletter
February 28, 2021
As lockdown continued for most of us, we’ve also weathered what felt like the coldest February for a long time; those two things together means I’ve been...
🤝 Happy new year – January’s roundup
January 31, 2021
It has been an eventful start to 2021, but that’s certainly not why you’re reading this 😅 So here are the blog posts I published in January: Accessible...
🎆 Happy Hogmanay! December’s roundup
December 31, 2020
The Christmas tree is down, the baubles packed away, and the strangest of years is drawing to a close. There's just enough time left to wish you all the very...
🧢 It’s Blue Beanie Day! November’s roundup
November 30, 2020
Being Scottish, I should probably be shouting about St. Andrew’s day, but web standards are too important, so Blue Beanie Day gets all my support! To find...
Halloween’s here 🎃🍂 – October’s roundup
October 31, 2020
Boo! 👻 It was a productive start to October, with five posts in the first fortnight. Then one of my kids caught a cold and wasn’t sleeping well, so my early...
🤓 September's roundup – tempertemper newsletter
September 30, 2020
Hi there! September has drawn to a close and my part of the UK is back in lockdown 🔒, which means I've had a wee bit more time for writing this month! I've...
🌦 August's roundup – tempertemper newsletter
September 3, 2020
Hello! It has been a wet month where I live ☔️ Despite being cooped up indoors, I only managed five posts, rather than the fifteen I managed the month...
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