Imagine a journalist thinking that John Mastodon was a tech entrepreneur! Everyone knows that John Mastodon was the actor in that movie, Goncharov. | Continue reading
Feeling a Mastodon instance cope with the latest influx of people is like being Han Solo in the Millennium Falcon: “Don’t worry—she’ll hold together! (You hear me, baby, hold together!)” https://www.patreon.com/mastodon | Continue reading
I’ll admit I was sceptical when An Event Apart pivoted to its new Broadway format, but #AEASF The Musical is great! | Continue reading
Good morning, San Francisco! | Continue reading
Had a lovely evening catching up with Tantek, talking about all the usual stuff: web standards, time travel… | Continue reading
Wow! This #AEASF talk by @mia@front-end.social is brilliant (as expected)! | Continue reading
Just gave a new talk on declarative design at #AEASF—now I can relax and enjoy the other talks! Thank you to everyone here for being such an attentive audience and allowing me to rant and rave. | Continue reading
Going to San Francisco. brb | Continue reading
Playing tunes at a house session in San Diego. | Continue reading
Greetings from San Diego, California. | Continue reading
Checked in at Jolly Brewer. Wednesday night session 🎶🎻☘️ — with Jessica | Continue reading
I decided to listen to what the universe was trying to tell me. Turns out the universe is mostly just sick and tired of being anthropomorphised. | Continue reading
My upcoming appearance at An Event Apart next week to talk about declarative design isn’t the only upcoming trip to San Francisco in my calendar. Two months from today I’ll be back in San Francisco for Leading Design. It’s on February 7th and 8th. This event is long overdue. We’v … | Continue reading
I’m not worried about AI coming for our jobs. I’m worried about AI coming for our hobbies. | Continue reading
People posting screenshots of AI-generated images and text, like parents proudly pinning their toddler’s latest scribblings on the fridge door. | Continue reading
Checked in at Dover Castle. Monday night session 🎶🎻🎻 — with Jessica | Continue reading
Reading The Táin translated by Ciaran Carson. | Continue reading
Jamie Freeman passed away yesterday. I first met Jamie as a fellow web-nerd way back in the early 2000s when I was freelancing here in Brighton. I did a lot of work with him and his design studio, Message. Andy was working there too. It’s kind of where the seeds of Clearleft were … | Continue reading
My friend Jamie passed away yesterday. I’m going to miss him. ❤️ | Continue reading
Checked in at The Bugle Inn. Sunday afternoon session 🎶🎻🎻🎻🎶 | Continue reading
I’ve always liked the idea that your website can be your API. Like, you’ve already got URLs to identify resources, so why not make that URL structure predictable and those resources parsable? That’s why the (read-only) API for The Session doesn’t live at a separate subdomain. It … | Continue reading
Sleepy #caturday. #NotMyCat | Continue reading
Today was Salter Cane band practice day with our new drummer, Matthew, who is excellent—it felt soooo good to play as a four piece again! | Continue reading
A few weeks back, a friend likened something I said to what Elon Musk would say. They retracted, but with each of Musk’s unhinged proclamations, the insult grows like a virus. I’m honestly not sure our friendship can get past it. | Continue reading
Fourteen years ago on this day I wrote about how one of my Flickr photos ended up in the first Marvel movie: https://adactio.com/journal/1530 | Continue reading
At the end of next week, I will sally forth to California. I’m going to wend my way to San Francisco where I will be speaking at An Event Apart. I am very much looking forward to speaking at my first in-person AEAs in exactly three years. That was also in San Francisco, right bef … | Continue reading
Checked in at Jolly Brewer. Monday night session 🎶☘️🎻 — with Jessica | Continue reading
Had coffee and a good chat with a talented young UX/UI designer who recently moved to Lewes from Ukraine: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anaida-bademian/ If you know of a UK-based opening for a junior role, let her know! | Continue reading
I am very excited to announce that UX London will be back in 2023! We’re returning to Tobacco Dock. Save the dates: June 22nd and 23rd. Wait …that’s only two days. Previously UX London was a three-day event and you could either go for all three days or get a ticket for just one d … | Continue reading
Checked in at The Bugle Inn. Sunday afternoon session 🎻🎶 — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checked in at The Winding Stair. Stopping for lunch in Dublin before flying home — with Jessica | Continue reading
Gerry talks about “top tasks” a lot. He literally [wrote the book]https://gerrymcgovern.com/books/top-tasks-a-how-to-guide/) on it: Top tasks are what matter most to your customers. Seems pretty obvious, right? But it’s actually pretty rare to see top tasks presented any diffe … | Continue reading
The stage is set …for Mám! https://teacdamsa.com/production/mam/ | Continue reading
Checked in at Tigh Cóilí. Mary Shannon on banjo! 🎻🪕🎻 — with Jessica | Continue reading
Oysters and Guinness in Tigh Neachtain. | Continue reading
Checked in at Tigh Neachtain. Sitting in a snug — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checked in at Tigh Cóilí. Listening to my favourite mandolin player ever—Declan Corey—playing in a cracking session! 🎶 — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checked in at The Crane Bar. Post-dinner session 🎶 — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checked in at Taaffes. A pint and some tunes 🎶 — with Jessica | Continue reading
Heading into the west, taking the train from Dublin to Galway. | Continue reading
If any of my fellow #mastodaoine play trad music, you can now get updates from https://thesession.org by following @thesession@mastodon.ie https://mastodon.ie/@thesession | Continue reading
Checked in at Dover Castle. Monday night session 🎶🎻 — with Jessica | Continue reading