Reading The Rosewater Insurrection by Tade Thompson. | Continue reading
Checked in at The Lord Nelson Inn. Thursday night session 🎶🎻 — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checked in at Jolly Brewer. Fiddletastic session — with Jessica | Continue reading
I love that a photo I took 21 years ago is still available at its original URL on the Mirror Project: https://www.mirrorproject.com/mirror/?id=3997 (That’s not a thumbnail; that’s the photo—pixels were expensive back in the day.) | Continue reading
I was chatting with my new colleague Alex yesterday about a link she had shared in Slack. It was the Nielsen Norman Group’s annual State of Mobile User Experience report. There’s nothing too surprising in there, other than the mention of Apple’s app clips and Google’s instant app … | Continue reading
I had video call this morning with someone who was in India. The call went great, except for a few moments when the video stalled. “Sorry about that”, said the person I was talking to. “It’s the monkeys. They like messing with the cable.” There’s something charming about an inter … | Continue reading
Checked in at Tørstigbar. Drinking Weird Weather by Mikkeller — with Jessica | Continue reading
Ever get the urge to style a good document? No? Just me, then. Well, the urge came over me recently so I started styling this single-page site: A Few Notes On The Culture by Iain M Banks I’ve followed this document across multiple locations over the years. It started life as a ne … | Continue reading
Forms on the web are an opportunity to make big improvements to the user experience with very little effort. The effort can be as little as sprinkling in a smattering of humble HTML attributes. But the result can be a turbo-charged experience for the user, allowing them to sail t … | Continue reading
Checked in at Jolly Brewer. Wednesday night session — with Jessica | Continue reading
I shared this link in Slack with my co-workers today: Cultivating depth and stillness in research by Andy Matuschak. I wasn’t sure whether it belonged in the #research or the #design channel. While it’s ostensibly about research, I think it applies to design more broadly. Heck, i … | Continue reading
On this day fourteen years ago, I went to PaperCamp, a day dedicated to the papernet: https://adactio.com/journal/1546 Pics or it didn’t happen: https://www.flickr.com/photos/adactio/albums/72157612675826706 It was fun! | Continue reading
Checked in at Dover Castle. Monday night session | Continue reading
A few years ago, I wrote about how much I enjoyed the book Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson. Not everyone liked that book. A lot of people were put off by its structure, in which the dream of interstellar colonisation meets the harsh truth of reality and the book follows where that … | Continue reading
Checked in at Bierbuik & Bloemeke. Beer & frites — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checked in at Meert. Coffee and cake — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checked in at Au Vieux de la Vieille. Cheesy lunch — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checked in at La Capsule. Beer snacks — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checked in at Jolly Brewer. Wednesday night session — with Jessica | Continue reading
Some lovely people have recently made some lovely websites. Dan has launched his type foundry, Simple Type Co. and it’s gorgeous! For as long as I’ve been making websites, Dan’s designs have been an inspiration: Corkd, Dribbble, his own website; whenever he unveils something it a … | Continue reading
Reading Who Fears Death? by Nnedi Okorafor. | Continue reading
I gave blood yesterday. It was my sixteenth donation. Yes, that’s a humblebrag. I feel like the gamification of blood donation is entirely reasonable. Levelling up in blood donation feels like the opposite of frequent flyer points. Instead of a growing sense of shame at how your … | Continue reading
Checked in at Cat Inn. Anniversary Sunday lunch — with Jessica | Continue reading
Had a lovely afternoon playing jigs and reels. | Continue reading
Got a postcard from Antarctica! Thank you, @arielwaldman@xoxo.zone | Continue reading
Having a nice lazy day, much like Coco. #NotMyCat | Continue reading
This time last year when I was looking back on 2021, I wrote: 2020 was the year of the virus. 2021 was the year of the vaccine …and the virus, obviously, but still it felt like the year we fought back. With science! Science continued to win the battle in 2022. But it was messy … | Continue reading
Starting 2023 as I mean to go on: playing loads of trad. | Continue reading
Fiona Shaw was sitting near me on the flight back from Cork (she’s also from Cobh) but I resisted the urge to tell her I thought she was brilliant in Andor (didn’t want to be creepy). | Continue reading
I posted 1057 times on adactio in 2022. sparkline That’s a bit more than in 2021. November was the busiest month with 137 posts. sparkline February was the quietest with 65 posts. sparkline I blogged 91 times during the year. sparkline I shared 382 links. sparkline I posted 583 … | Continue reading
Here’s a highlight reel of some of my blog posts from 2022: Today, the distant future — 2022 was once unimaginable to some web folks. Installing progressive web apps — How I’m letting people know they can install The Session to their home screens. Starting and finishing — Some a … | Continue reading
Usually an end-of-year music round-up is a list of favourite recordings released in the year. But in 2022 I wasn’t paying very much attention to new releases. I bought a few albums on Bandcamp. They were mostly of—surprise, surprise—traditional Irish music. Still, I had a very mu … | Continue reading
Checked in at The Corner House. Playing in a session led by Matt Cranitch! 🎶🎻 — with Jessica | Continue reading
I read 25 books in 2022. I wish I had read more, but I’m not going to beat myself up about it. I think no matter how many books I read in any given year, I’ll always wish I had read more. 18 of the 25 books were written by women. I think that’s a pretty good ratio. But only 6 of … | Continue reading
Cheese, wine, and fire. 🧀 🍷 🔥 | Continue reading
My trip to California went well. It was bookended with a few days in San Diego on either end. I relished the opportunity to hang with family and soak up the sunshine. In the middle was my outing to San Francisco for An Event Apart. There were some great talks: Krystal talking abo … | Continue reading
Having a cosy Christmas Eve by the fire. 🔥 | Continue reading
Arrived into Cork airport to the sound of trad tunes! 🎶🎻☘️ | Continue reading
Reading The Star Of The Sea by Joseph O’Connor. | Continue reading
The API formerly known as Shared Element Transitions is now called View Transitions. Next up: the Geolocation API will henceforth be known as the Assassination Coordinates API. | Continue reading
Checked in at Jolly Brewer. Wednesday night session 🎻🎶🎻 — with Jessica | Continue reading
Bidding farewell to San Diego. | Continue reading