Reading Stories Of Ireland by Brien Friel. | Continue reading
Irgendwas geht los in Koblenz 🤔 | Continue reading
I’m heading to Amsterdam for CSS Day. It’s one of those events I try my best to get to every single year. I have no doubt that this year will be brilliant as usual. There’s another event the day before CSS Day: The Web You Want: What would the web be like if it was up to you … | Continue reading
I had a thoroughly enjoyable three days of hosting UX London this week and met such lovely people at the event—thank you to everyone who came! | Continue reading
The Session existed in a very basic form since the late 1990s. It was just me posting a different tune every week. But The Session as it is today—a community website where everyone can add tunes—first went online on June 3rd, 2001. That’s 25 years ago today. Considering the typ … | Continue reading
I few weeks back, I got an email with the subject line, Screenshot in an Exhibition: I am currently developing an exhibition celebrating the thriving folk musics of these islands for the Royal College of Music Museum and one of the showcases looks at the Sharing of folk music … | Continue reading
Signing in solidarity with Wiki Workers United: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiWorkersUnited_solidarity#Signatures | Continue reading
BhĂ me i Londain an deireadh seachtaine seo caite mar gheall ar an Gaeltacht cois Tamaise. CĂşpla lá iontach ba ea iad! BhĂ na ranganna ar siĂşl DĂ© Sathairn agus DĂ© Domhnaigh, ceithre huaire an chloig gach lá, i gColáiste na RĂ. BhĂ ceithre leibhĂ©al ann—tosathĂłiri, meanleibhĂ©al-is … | Continue reading
Happy birthday, Star Wars, responsive design, and Douglas Adams! | Continue reading
Saturday session in London. | Continue reading
At the Royal College of Music Museum, where the new exhibit features thesession.org! | Continue reading
Reading Sarah Canary by Karen Joy Fowler. | Continue reading
I enjoyed Kim Curran’s debut novel, The Morrigan, so when I saw a copy of her brand new book in the local library, I snapped it up. Like The Morrigan, Brigid is modern retelling of Irish mythology, but in a very different time period. Whereas The Morrigan was set in a mythical t … | Continue reading
Is breá leat é a fheiceáil. | Continue reading
When I told you about the schedule for UX London 2026, I said: After your afternoon workshop there’ll be one final closing talk at the end of each day before we head to the bar. These closing talks are a way of bringing everyone back into the same space after spending the a … | Continue reading
Hanging out with Sandy in the sunshine. | Continue reading
Lesbian necromancers in space. That’s the usual pitch for Gideon The Ninth and it’s not wrong. Though there’s a lot more necromancy than space or lesbianism. The book begins in an environment fairly dripping with death, all bones and darkness. It sounds like it should be grim, b … | Continue reading
Reading Brigid by Kim Curran. | Continue reading
If you’re voting in local elections in England today, don’t forget to bring your photo ID. And when you get to the polling station, don’t forget to make a formal complaint about having to bring your photo ID. | Continue reading
There’s just under a month to go until UX London 2026—exciting! You can peruse the full schedule if you need to decide wether you’re coming for just one day or for all three. The event is designed to flow together, from discovery day to design day to delivery day, but each indiv … | Continue reading
Taytos with Jack at Cork airport | Continue reading
I know people joke about everyone in Ireland knowing everyone else, but I just got off the plane in Cork and the customs officer is my cousin. | Continue reading
In the latest issue of Matthias’s excellent Own Your Web series, he describes the recent betrayal by Google: The search engine no longer says “here, go read what this person wrote.” It now says “here, I’ve already read it for you.” The contract is broken. He’s absolutely ri … | Continue reading
Nothing can travel faster than light. And if you manage to travel close to the speed of light, things get weird. Technically, we all experience time differently depending on how fast or slow we’re moving. But the differences are so imperceptible as to be non-existent. That’s how … | Continue reading
After reading The Morrigan I was hungry for more retellings of Irish myths and legends. I tracked down the 1994 novel Finn Mac Cool by Morgan Llywelyn. When I was devouring modern retellings of Greek myths, I commented on an interesting difference in the tellings: The bigges … | Continue reading
Reading Gideon The Ninth by Tamsyn Muir. | Continue reading
People talk about the effectiveness (or lack thereof) of large language models as though all tasks are comparable. But it strikes me that there are three broad categories of work that large language models are applied to: Compression. Transformation. Expansion. Compression is … | Continue reading