Checked in at Jolly Brewer. Good turnout for the Wednesday night session — with Jessica | Continue reading
I wrote a while back about the UX London 2023 scholarship programme. Applications are still open (until May 19th) so if you know someone who you think should apply, here’s the link. As I said then: Wondering if you should apply? It’s hard to define exactly who qualifies for a d … | Continue reading
This is how you advertise a role: https://jobs.barnardos.org.uk/jobs/vacancy/senior-design-engineer-15534/16489/description/ remote-friendly, a good cause, no frameworks mentioned, progressive enhancement! | Continue reading
Checked in at Dover Castle. Early evening Easter session — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checked in at The Ancient Mariner. Good turnout for the session! — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checked in at Jolly Brewer. Wednesday night session — with Jessica | Continue reading
Looking forward to playing some tunes in The Ancient Mariner in Hove tomorrow evening! | Continue reading
More music, this time with Salter Cane. | Continue reading
Started the weekend right with a great kitchen session to celebrate a friend’s 75th birthday. | Continue reading
Checked in at The Lord Nelson Inn. Thursday session 🪕 — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checked in at Jolly Brewer. Wednesday night session | Continue reading
Boom! The Clearleft podcast is back! The first episode of season four just dropped. It’s all about design transformation. I’ve got to be honest, this episode is a little inside baseball. It’s a bit navel-gazey and soul-searching as I pick apart the messaging emblazoned on the Cle … | Continue reading
I’d like to play it cool when I announce the latest speakers for UX London 2023, like I could be all nonchalant and say, “oh yeah, did I not mention these people are also speaking…?” But I wouldn’t be able to keep up that façade for longer than a second. The truth is I am excited … | Continue reading
Checked in at The Bugle Inn. Sunday afternoon session | Continue reading
Reading Circe by Madeline Miller. | Continue reading
Eight years ago today I published the first of 100 posts where I’d write exactly 100 words every day: https://adactio.com/journal/8577 It was fun! https://adactio.com/journal/tags/100words I should do it again sometime. | Continue reading
Techbros seem to love spelling their half-baked creations with capital letters to make them seem important. It’s a small act of resistance, but I write them as regular words. The added readability is a nice bonus. | Continue reading
Picture someone tediously going through a spreadsheet that someone has filled in by hand and finding yet another error. “I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam!” they cry. The year was 1821 and technically the spreadsheet was a book of logarithmic tables. The … | Continue reading
Checked in at Jolly Brewer. Wednesday night session — with Jessica | Continue reading
You know how when you’re on hold to any customer service line you hear a message that thanks you for calling and claims your call is important to them. The message always includes a disclaimer about calls possibly being recorded “for training purposes.” Nobody expects that any tr … | Continue reading
Checked in at The Bugle Inn. Sunday session 🎶🎻 | Continue reading
Post St. Patrick’s Day recovery session 🎻🎶☘️ | Continue reading
First session of the day ☘️🎶 | Continue reading
Here’s how the St. Patrick’s Day sessions are shaping up in Brighton: 2:30-4:30 The Fiddler’s Elbow 4-6 The Bugle 5-7 The Lord Nelson 6-8 The Dover Castle 8-10 The Jolly Brewer 10-? ??? | Continue reading
Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona daoibh go léir! I’m off to play a rake of tunes… | Continue reading
I presume that “ChatGPT” isn’t supposed to be said as one word—“chatgipit”—but rather the capital letters should be spelled out. So it’s pronounced “See Hat Jee Pee Tee.” | Continue reading
Reading The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier by Bruce Sterling. | Continue reading
Checked in at Jolly Brewer. Wednesday night session 🎻🎶 — with Jessica | Continue reading
I know I’m being tease, doling out these UX London speaker announcements in batches rather than one big reveal. Indulge me in my suspense-ratcheting behaviour. Today I’d like to unveil three speakers whose surnames start with the letter H… Stephen Hay, Creative Director at Rabob … | Continue reading
My brother is competing in the Barkley Marathons. Again. https://runningmagazine.ca/trail-running/whos-who-at-the-barkley-marathons-2023/ Last time he broke his collarbone on the second loop. #bm100 | Continue reading
The last talk at the last dConstruct was by local clever clogs Anil Seth. It was called Your Brain Hallucinates Your Conscious Reality. It’s well worth a listen. Anil covers a lot of the same ground in his excellent book, Being You. He describes a model of consciousness that inve … | Continue reading
Checked in at The Bugle Inn. Sunday session 🎻🎻 | Continue reading
Happy birthday to Information Management: A Proposal by Tim Berners-Lee https://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html | Continue reading
Checked in at Pulpeira de Melide. Clams, mackerel, tomatoes and tortilla — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checked in at Mercado Muncipal de San Agustín. Exploring the market — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checked in at Vermutería Martinez. Vermut — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checked in at O Viñedo de Tito. Scallops and razor clams — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checked in at O Merendeiro. Pulpo! 🐙 — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checked in at Jamón Jamón. Jamón! — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checked in at La Bombilla. Croqueta y cerveza 🍺 — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checked in at Vita K Galera 13. Pimentos de padron y Albariño — with Jessica | Continue reading
Strolling along the beach in A Coruña. | Continue reading
Social networks like Instagram, Facebook and Twitter that present a so-called algorithmic feed are really providing little more than continuous partial shadowbanning. | Continue reading