Man sitting at table reading book

Book with jams and chutneys

Book with bird seed

Book on table with caption ‘cartoons from the Church Times’

It's publication day for The PCC Strikes Back, my latest book, published by @canterburypress.bsky.social. It's collection no 9 of my cartoons from the Church Times. Photos taken at The Cafe, aka Essex Wildlife Trust Langdon, where lots of the cartoons were drawn. A link to buy the book is below.

Why promote cycling? Climate and many other things matter | David Andrew Walker | TEDxChengdu YouTube video by TEDx Talks

Posting (with considerable apprehension) my TEDx talk. Topic: My case for cycling as a way to mitigate against climate change. The talk didn't happen quite as originally planned, so it was filmed, in China and Essex. Please forgive any imperfections in my delivery. www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9cT...

Hand drawn graph, with title ‘on a day like today’. Vertical axis is ‘level of achievement’, ranging from zero to high. Horizontal axis is ‘time’. There’s two lines in the graph. One: a very low ‘target’ line, horizontal, just above zero. And 2, an ‘actual’ line that wavers just above or below the ‘target’ one. At the bottom, text: ‘And that’s ok’

Drawn last week, when I wasn’t doing that well. For anyone who is struggling a bit, for whatever reason. It’s OK to have days when we just get by.

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Free family of hyperlegible® fonts designed to improve legibility and readability for people with low vision.

H/t @fredgatesdesign.bsky.social.

www.brailleinstitute.org/freefont/

Two figures holding banner saying ‘appy ew ear’, the h, n and y from the beginning of each word having fallen to the floor.

Latest issue of Diagram Club, my cartoon-based newsletter (No 68).

- The newsletter is pivoting
- A new feature is revealed
- One reason for optimism in 2026
- Also I have a new hat

diagramclub.substack.com/p/068-one-re...

Restarting this little project.

My friends in Austria sent this and I can't stop watching...wait for the end. 🤗💜

I look forward to seeing colour combinations that make me wonder if my drink has been spiked

Link (Amazon UK): amzn.to/4pSA2ym

Also available on Amazon US, Europe, etc, by searching ‘Household Problems’.

Book with title Household Problems - Domestic Incompetence in Diagrams. By Dave Walker. Colours are purple and teal. Black and white pictures - someone sweeping stuff under a rug, a printer with a sad face, some trays that don’t stack, a spilled drink, and someone tripping over something.

News! A new book. Household Problems: Domestic Incompetence in Diagrams. It’s a collection of more than 44 cartoons, as seen in my Diagram Club newsletter. A bit late in the year? Sure, but still available for Christmas delivery. Amazon UK link: amzn.to/4pSA2ym
(available internationally too)

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

Graphic saying 'New at dvaewalkershop.com'. There's a picture of a Christmas t-shirt and jumper, a t-shirt for children, and a mug. All of the products have cycling cartoons on them, such as Santa riding a bike, or bicycle design with text 'this machine fights climate change'.

Without trying to be too Black Friday about things, (but, let's face it, failing), today's the ideal day to buy someone a cycle cartoon gift from my shop. There's free UK postage and 10% off with code TAKE10 davewalkershop.com

Journal: Why use React?


Or, more precisely, why use React *in the browser*?


🔗https://adactio.com/journal/22265

Why use React? Or, more precisely, why use React *in the browser*?

I wanted to write about this for a long time, but @adactio.com did it first and definitely better. Web frameworks should be invisible to the user, they serve us developers. Users don't care, and shouldn't pay the price neither.

Providers Web browsers provide you with great features for free. Why would you choose to use tools that stop you taking advantage of that?

“I think that most developers have the mental model of JavaScript frameworks completely backwards. They believe that the framework saves them time and effort …. Instead these frameworks are simply limiting the possibility space of what you can do in web browsers today.”

adactio.com/journal/22235

A dude pouring a hilariously over-sized olive oil bottle over a normal sized bowl of salad leaves. He is captioned as developers and the oil is captioned as JavaScript. The salad is captioned as website

bringing this one back because it shouldn't die with twitter

#061 Please assemble in the telephone box I don't know why your houseplants die / White paint (waste of)

Latest newsletter posted. In Diagram Club #061:
- Why houseplants die (no idea)
- Photographs from my week (annotated)
- Why painted cycle lanes aren’t generally worthwhile
- Hand-drawn paragraph breaks as usual
- [Paid] Updates from China

diagramclub.substack.com/p/061-please...

Medieval frieze in Notre Dame, Paris, showing several figures in the window of a building, which looks like a Punch & Judy show.

Saw this and thought of @robbsutherland.bsky.social. I believe that this frieze in Notre Dame in Paris is saying that after his resurrection Jesus appeared in a Punch & Judy show.

#057 From China, part two: Taiyuan Making movies / The book event

Part 2 of my visit to China. Welcomed incredibly warmly, amazing book launch event, filming the TEDx talk that couldn’t happen, finding my second-favourite cafe in the world (etc). open.substack.com/pub/diagramc...

Your trip sounds absolutely incredible, congratulations.

BINÄRY SEARCH Binary search is a fast algorithm for finding the position of a value within a sorted array. It reflects the way people intuitively guess numbers by repeatedly asking Is your number bigger or smaller ...

Idea Instructions is a web site showing computing algorithms as @ikea non-verbal instructions.
idea-instructions.com/binary-search/

This is one of the best talks I’ve ever seen. Give it 20 minutes of your weekend.

Advocacy and hope at Greenbelt 2025 This year’s Greenbelt Festival brought together art, activism and hope, and stood for justice and solidarity with Palestine amid global turmoil

Advocacy and hope at Greenbelt 2025

This year’s Greenbelt Festival brought together art, activism and hope, and stood for justice and solidarity with Palestine amid global turmoil

By Jonathan Stirling

@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
@greenbeltfestival.bsky.social

Diagram with two axes. On vertical axis: 'Have got' at top, 'Have not got' at bottom. On horizontal axis: 'That' on left, 'This' on right. The key underneath says X = You. The X is in the top right of the diagram, next to 'Have got', and 'This'.

New diagram: Pep talk

I am so sorry, Kieran was a phenomenally gifted man, full of grace. My prayers are for your family.

We Don’t Just Miss Webrings - We Fixed Them - Webring Studio Webrings died for a reason. We fixed it. No dead ends. No loops. Just a better way to connect sites that belong together.

People say “I miss the old web.” So I built something new that revives what worked back then and fixes what didn’t.

Here’s how I rebuilt webrings for 2025:

webringstudio.com/we-dont-just...

#indieweb #webrings #nostalgia #rebuildingtheweb

Talking Low Income Communities at General Synod My words about Low Income Communities Funding from Saturday’s session of General Synod.

I have been way too busy to update my blog lately. I just managed to grab a few moments to share the video in which I shared my thoughts on Low Income Communities Funding with #GeneralSynod.

JavaScript broke the web (and called it progress) We replaced simple websites with complex apps nobody asked for. Now it takes a complex build pipeline just to change a headline.

“But good DX doesn’t guarantee good UX. In fact, it’s often the opposite. Because the more comfortable we make things for developers, the more abstraction we add. And every abstraction creates distance between the thing being built and the people it’s for.”

h/t @piermario.bsky.social 3/3

Happy birthday Harry 👍