Rachel Andrew

  1. How do we talk about atproto to non-developers?

    The beauty of AT Protocol is that all of your data from different apps is available on your PDS, your own folder on the internet containing your stuff as JSON. This means that you can switch which app you use to view that data, without losing anything. It also makes it very easy to make ... How do we…

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  2. Understanding AT Protocol

    I’ve been playing around with AT Protocol. The posts on this site are now published to standard.site, and I’ve written a (very basic) WordPress plugin to display posts from my PDS on the Now page of this site. As a developer, I’ve spent a good chunk of my working life building apps that stored things…

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  3. Over 15 years of conference speaking

    I’m not someone who keeps a lot of memorabilia, but I do have a large collection of conference badges. Most of these are from events I spoke at, and a few from other memorable events. While decorating my new garden office I decided to pin them to a corkboard. It turned out that I had ... Over 15 years…

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  4. Where’s the holistic AI productivity data?

    For most of my career I ran a very small company. When you run a tiny company your resources (both time and money) are limited, and you want to use them on the things that will have the most impact. You have to quickly stop doing things that aren’t cost-effective, to avoid “throwing good money ... Where’s…

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  5. Joining the atmosphere

    I don’t post to or visit the social network formerly known as Twitter, but as a very early Twitter user, I can’t quite bring myself to delete all my old posts. There’s so much history there, not just personal history but the stories of a lot of the work I’ve done. This is the problem ... Joining the…

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  6. What would a 2026 CSS Anthology look like?

    In 2004 I published the first edition of The CSS Anthology with Sitepoint. The idea for the book was to take the entire CSS 2.1 specification, and come up with 101 examples to show people how to use all of the CSS that existed. I have a copy on my shelf, but recently discovered you ... What would a 2026…

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  7. The importance of people who care

    I had a few days off work last week. My daughter was visiting, and in the evening we sat and watched episodes of Being Gordon Ramsey, a documentary series following the chef as he opens a huge restaurant project in London. It’s an interesting watch, but the thing that comes across through every word…

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  8. Do you need AI for that?

    My social feed has divided mostly into two camps—those who can now only talk about how excited they are about AI, and those who are refusing to use it at all. I’m somewhat bemused by both of these positions, I see LLMs as a useful tool, in the way that I see spreadsheets as a ... Do you need AI for that…

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  9. Look into the future of the web platform

    Last week I spoke at the very lovely Web Day Out in Brighton. My talk was about browser support, based on the work I’ve done over the past almost five years on Baseline. I ran through the various things you need to consider when deciding whether to use features that don’t meet your Baseline target. …

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  10. Generative AI has broken the subject matter expert/editor relationship

    Some thoughts about managing a publishing pipeline in a world of generative AI.

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