Mark Boulton
@markboulton.co.uk
Head of product design @checkout.com. Typographer. Cyclist. Likes tea.
Realised I’ve not been on here for ages. Hello again. What’s going on?
January 13, 2026 at 7:54 PM
Realised I’ve not been on here for ages. Hello again. What’s going on?
Reposted by Mark Boulton
Happy 35th Birthday WorldWideWeb – the first browser!
On December 25, 1990, at CERN, a British physicist and internet pioneer Tim Berners-Lee created the world's first web browser, called WorldWideWeb.
Try the browser emulator worldwideweb.cern.ch/browser/
#InternetHistory
On December 25, 1990, at CERN, a British physicist and internet pioneer Tim Berners-Lee created the world's first web browser, called WorldWideWeb.
Try the browser emulator worldwideweb.cern.ch/browser/
#InternetHistory
December 25, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Happy 35th Birthday WorldWideWeb – the first browser!
On December 25, 1990, at CERN, a British physicist and internet pioneer Tim Berners-Lee created the world's first web browser, called WorldWideWeb.
Try the browser emulator worldwideweb.cern.ch/browser/
#InternetHistory
On December 25, 1990, at CERN, a British physicist and internet pioneer Tim Berners-Lee created the world's first web browser, called WorldWideWeb.
Try the browser emulator worldwideweb.cern.ch/browser/
#InternetHistory
Reposted by Mark Boulton
Seeing as it's 5 November, something about Bonfire Night...
The topsy-turvy celebration of Guy Fawkes
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The topsy-turvy celebration of Guy Fawkes
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The topsy-turvy celebration of Guy Fawkes
Posted on Thursday 3 Nov 2022. 646 words, 1 link. By Matt Webb.
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November 5, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Seeing as it's 5 November, something about Bonfire Night...
The topsy-turvy celebration of Guy Fawkes
interconnected.org/home/2022/11...
The topsy-turvy celebration of Guy Fawkes
interconnected.org/home/2022/11...
Youngest daughter and her friends are watching The Shining on their Halloween sleep over. It’s been going like this…
‘Omg, is so boring!’
‘What *is* this film about!?’
‘Shit! Oh, it’s so creepy’
‘I don’t like it’
‘Can we come and sit with you?’
‘Don’t turn the lights off!’
‘Did you hear that?’
‘Omg, is so boring!’
‘What *is* this film about!?’
‘Shit! Oh, it’s so creepy’
‘I don’t like it’
‘Can we come and sit with you?’
‘Don’t turn the lights off!’
‘Did you hear that?’
October 31, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Youngest daughter and her friends are watching The Shining on their Halloween sleep over. It’s been going like this…
‘Omg, is so boring!’
‘What *is* this film about!?’
‘Shit! Oh, it’s so creepy’
‘I don’t like it’
‘Can we come and sit with you?’
‘Don’t turn the lights off!’
‘Did you hear that?’
‘Omg, is so boring!’
‘What *is* this film about!?’
‘Shit! Oh, it’s so creepy’
‘I don’t like it’
‘Can we come and sit with you?’
‘Don’t turn the lights off!’
‘Did you hear that?’
Been vibe coding a cycling app. It’s like a cross between being a hovering art director and a baby sitter.
October 13, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Been vibe coding a cycling app. It’s like a cross between being a hovering art director and a baby sitter.
Superman. Superdog. Funny droids. Clearly I’m 42 years too old for this film.
September 27, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Superman. Superdog. Funny droids. Clearly I’m 42 years too old for this film.
Me.
Browse > Raindrop it > 11ty publishes it once a day.
Browse > Raindrop it > 11ty publishes it once a day.
September 26, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Me.
Browse > Raindrop it > 11ty publishes it once a day.
Browse > Raindrop it > 11ty publishes it once a day.
Carb loading for a bike ride tomorrow and am approx 80% bagel and jam, 10% banana bread, 7% orange juice, and 3% gaviscon.
September 20, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Carb loading for a bike ride tomorrow and am approx 80% bagel and jam, 10% banana bread, 7% orange juice, and 3% gaviscon.
Liquid Glass is upsetting.
September 18, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Liquid Glass is upsetting.
Ok, so the responsive mobile view is less than ideal, and I need to refactor to use my own tokens etc. But still, one step at a time.
September 10, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Ok, so the responsive mobile view is less than ideal, and I need to refactor to use my own tokens etc. But still, one step at a time.
It’s been fun. This is all with a view of actually building my own bespoke, useful dashboard. So many cycling apps throw the kitchen sink at you. I just want a few specific things I’m tracking from a good data source.
Always be tinkering.
Always be tinkering.
September 10, 2025 at 6:12 PM
It’s been fun. This is all with a view of actually building my own bespoke, useful dashboard. So many cycling apps throw the kitchen sink at you. I just want a few specific things I’m tracking from a good data source.
Always be tinkering.
Always be tinkering.
It’s a mix of indoor training and outdoor rides. Still work to do around making them easily navigable and performant. The svg maps and HR/Power data plots was a bit of a challenge.
All of this is being built with Eleventy, the Strava API, the Intervals.icu API together with open street map.
All of this is being built with Eleventy, the Strava API, the Intervals.icu API together with open street map.
September 10, 2025 at 6:11 PM
It’s a mix of indoor training and outdoor rides. Still work to do around making them easily navigable and performant. The svg maps and HR/Power data plots was a bit of a challenge.
All of this is being built with Eleventy, the Strava API, the Intervals.icu API together with open street map.
All of this is being built with Eleventy, the Strava API, the Intervals.icu API together with open street map.
Made a thing on my website.
markboulton.co.uk/rides/
For a while I’ve been wanting to continue to own my own data and I do a fair bit of riding with a lot of data. So putting them up on my site and tinkering felt like a nice thing to do.
markboulton.co.uk/rides/
For a while I’ve been wanting to continue to own my own data and I do a fair bit of riding with a lot of data. So putting them up on my site and tinkering felt like a nice thing to do.
September 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Made a thing on my website.
markboulton.co.uk/rides/
For a while I’ve been wanting to continue to own my own data and I do a fair bit of riding with a lot of data. So putting them up on my site and tinkering felt like a nice thing to do.
markboulton.co.uk/rides/
For a while I’ve been wanting to continue to own my own data and I do a fair bit of riding with a lot of data. So putting them up on my site and tinkering felt like a nice thing to do.
I have opinions about notebooks. The Midori MD A5 gridded notebook is almost perfect. From its lay-flat design and the weight of the paper. But its cover is rubbish. Light weight and gets destroyed by travel. And the separate covers aren’t that great.
I’m not going to make my own but I’m tempted.
I’m not going to make my own but I’m tempted.
September 9, 2025 at 9:03 AM
I have opinions about notebooks. The Midori MD A5 gridded notebook is almost perfect. From its lay-flat design and the weight of the paper. But its cover is rubbish. Light weight and gets destroyed by travel. And the separate covers aren’t that great.
I’m not going to make my own but I’m tempted.
I’m not going to make my own but I’m tempted.
That is a very good idea. Ours are continually chipping. How are you attaching them? And would your fabricator do antique nickel?
September 2, 2025 at 12:39 PM
That is a very good idea. Ours are continually chipping. How are you attaching them? And would your fabricator do antique nickel?
I stuck it in the fridge
August 29, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I stuck it in the fridge
It’s been 25 years since I’ve seen G Love & Special Sauce and tonight they treated us to the entire first album and a few extras. Just a wonderful experience.
August 28, 2025 at 10:14 PM
It’s been 25 years since I’ve seen G Love & Special Sauce and tonight they treated us to the entire first album and a few extras. Just a wonderful experience.
During the first lockdown, I blogged about making a bit of an aggregated feed reader (I guess I was doing a lot of doomscrolling).
markboulton.co.uk/journal/my-o...
I hadn't looked at it ages, but it feels like a scary, depressing, triggering time capsule.
broadsheet.markboulton.co.uk
markboulton.co.uk/journal/my-o...
I hadn't looked at it ages, but it feels like a scary, depressing, triggering time capsule.
broadsheet.markboulton.co.uk
August 26, 2025 at 2:16 PM
During the first lockdown, I blogged about making a bit of an aggregated feed reader (I guess I was doing a lot of doomscrolling).
markboulton.co.uk/journal/my-o...
I hadn't looked at it ages, but it feels like a scary, depressing, triggering time capsule.
broadsheet.markboulton.co.uk
markboulton.co.uk/journal/my-o...
I hadn't looked at it ages, but it feels like a scary, depressing, triggering time capsule.
broadsheet.markboulton.co.uk
I hope Alien Earth gets better.
I think what it hasn’t nailed is that, like the shark in Jaws, the xenomorph’s horror lies in its absence. It was so quiet, so fast, so stealthy, that you have no chance of witnessing it take someone.
I think what it hasn’t nailed is that, like the shark in Jaws, the xenomorph’s horror lies in its absence. It was so quiet, so fast, so stealthy, that you have no chance of witnessing it take someone.
August 17, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I hope Alien Earth gets better.
I think what it hasn’t nailed is that, like the shark in Jaws, the xenomorph’s horror lies in its absence. It was so quiet, so fast, so stealthy, that you have no chance of witnessing it take someone.
I think what it hasn’t nailed is that, like the shark in Jaws, the xenomorph’s horror lies in its absence. It was so quiet, so fast, so stealthy, that you have no chance of witnessing it take someone.
Back on the weeknotes. markboulton.co.uk/journal/week...
Weeknotes 39 - Mark Boulton
Some notes of the week
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August 15, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Back on the weeknotes. markboulton.co.uk/journal/week...
Not seen episode 1 yet!
August 15, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Not seen episode 1 yet!
Oh no! I have high hopes!
August 14, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Oh no! I have high hopes!
Just digging around a four year old Eleventy build of my blog going ‘huh?’. I reckon I may have to zero the desk if I’m going to rebuild this thing
(Zeroing the desk: markboulton.co.uk/journal/zero...)
(Zeroing the desk: markboulton.co.uk/journal/zero...)
August 11, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Just digging around a four year old Eleventy build of my blog going ‘huh?’. I reckon I may have to zero the desk if I’m going to rebuild this thing
(Zeroing the desk: markboulton.co.uk/journal/zero...)
(Zeroing the desk: markboulton.co.uk/journal/zero...)