Advent of Patterns Wrap-up

Sometimes, website authors change the URL of a feed without adding a redirect. This causes a problem for people subscribed to the feed: without the redirect, the software used to subscribe to the feed will have an out of date URL. After seeing Artemis, the calm web reader that I run, try to retrieve several dozen feeds that now return 404s, I...

This article is the twenty-fourth and final edition of the Advent of Patterns series. In this series, running from December 1st to December 24th 2024, I will document one design or programming pattern I have noticed recently. Read more about this series.. When I am working on content management tasks, I often make reference to the list of all...

Artemis, the calm web reader I am developing, is out of beta. You can sign up with the invite code “coffee”. Since launching Artemis, I have added several features. The highlights are as follows: You can use the Artemis feed recovery wizard to find updated feeds if a feed URL is broken. This appears as a red “Fix” button in your Authors page...

This article is the twenty-third edition of the Advent of Patterns series. In this series, running from December 1st to December 24th 2024, I will document one design or programming pattern I have noticed recently. Read more about this series. When I was designing Artemis, a calm web reader, I started to reflect on the importance of user...

This article is the twenty-second edition of the Advent of Patterns series. In this series, running from December 1st to December 24th 2024, I will document one design or programming pattern I have noticed recently. Read more about this series. Knowing the status – or “state” – of a system or task is an essential part of interaction design....