Exactly sixteen years ago on this day, I wrote about Twitter, a service I had been using for a few weeks. I documented how confusing yet compelling it was. Twitter grew and grew after that. But at some point, it began to feel more like it was shrinking, shrivelling into a husk of … | Continue reading
Táim ar an teilifís! Blink and you’ll miss me and my mandolin at 1:01 and 35:21 (with some subsequent audience shots at the banjo recital) from Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy: https://www.tg4.ie/ga/player/seinn/?pid=6315816768112 | Continue reading
Reading The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers. | Continue reading
Checked in at The Bugle Inn. Made it back to Brighton in time for a session 🎶🎻 | Continue reading
Checked in at British Airways Galleries Club Lounge / First Lounge. Transiting through Philly — with Jessica | Continue reading
Bidding farewell to Florida. | Continue reading
If you ask me, the construction of a highway to the danger zone was an extravagant waste of taxpayer money in the first place. | Continue reading
Right now, Twitter feels like Dunkirk beach in May 1940. And look, here comes a plucky armada of web servers running Mastodon instances! Others have written some guides to getting started on Mastodon: An oversimplified guide to setting up Mastodon by Sarah Higley, An Increasingl … | Continue reading
I’ve been contemplating a checkbox. The label for this checkbox reads: This is a bot account Let me back up… In what seems like decades ago, but was in fact just a few weeks, Elon Musk bought Twitter and began burning it to the ground. His admirers insist he’s playing some for … | Continue reading
Two weeks ago I was on stage for two days hosting Leading Design in London. Last week I was on stage for two days hosting Clarity in New Orleans. It was an honour and a pleasure to MC at both events. Hard work, but very, very rewarding. And people seemed to like the cut of my jib … | Continue reading
Phwoar! Thank you, James Webb Space Telescope, for another beautiful shot! | Continue reading
Got to see the bright burn of the Artemis launch even from Saint Augustine beach far to the north, and even with cloudy skies! 🚀 | Continue reading
Instagram clichés gone wrong. | Continue reading
So saddened to hear of @carolune’s passing. I’ll always remember being so excited and enthusiastic at the very first Science Hack Day. A true champion of science and wonder. My deepest sympathies to her family. | Continue reading
Saint Augustine Beach, mid November. | Continue reading
Sitting on the porch, playing tunes on my mandolin. | Continue reading
Going to Saint Augustine. brb | Continue reading
Bidding farewell to New Orleans, @wordridden’s city of birth. | Continue reading
Had to be done. (But Morning Call is still tops) | Continue reading
It was an honour and a privilege to MC the in-person portion of #Clarity2022—I had a blast! | Continue reading
Simultaneously having a great time at #Clarity2022 in New Orleans while also feeling FOMO for #FFconf back home in Brighton. | Continue reading
Checked in at Sazerac Bar. Sazerac — with Jessica | Continue reading
Had a lovely evening enjoying live music outdoors in a New Orleans courtyard at the #Clarity2022 speakers’ gathering. | Continue reading
Got a sneaky tour of the National WWII Museum from our old friend Kim who’s a senior curator there! | Continue reading
Checked in at Dover Castle. A full house of fiddles! 🎶🎻🎻🎻🎻🎶 — with Jessica | Continue reading
So saddened by the passing of Mimi Parker—we’ve lost a beautiful voice. | Continue reading
Checked in at The Bugle Inn. Sunday session 🎶🎻 | Continue reading
When I wrote about my hopes and fears for the View Transitions API, a few people latched on to this sentiment: If the View Transitions API only works for single page apps, it could be the single worst thing to happen to the web in years. But I also wrote: If the View Transit … | Continue reading
Very, very good news indeed! 👏👏👏https://twitter.com/jaffathecake/status/1588839787229609985 | Continue reading
I am simultaneously very excited and very nervous about the View Transitions API. You may know it by its former name—Shared Element Transitions. The name change is very recent. I’ve been saying for years that some kind of API like this would be brilliant: I honestly think if br … | Continue reading
I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details, the way a planet looks smooth from orbit. — Ursula K. Le Guin, Solitude | Continue reading
All the speakers at #LDconf today were wonderful! | Continue reading
Time to introduce another trio of wonderful design leaders at #LDconf. | Continue reading
Getting ready to introduce the next trio of designers at #LDconf. | Continue reading
I spent Friday morning in band practice with Salter Cane. It was productive. We’ve got some new songs that are coming together nicely. We’re still short a drummer though, so if you know anyone in Brighton who might be interested, let me know. As we were packing up, we could here … | Continue reading
🎶 The Roebucks 🎶 and 🎶 Sea Power 🎶 | Continue reading
Checked in at The Bugle Inn. Sunday session — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checked in at Haus On The Hill. Sunday Roast — with Jessica | Continue reading
It’s been almost two years since I added audio playback on The Session. The interface is quite straightforward. For any tune setting, there’s a button that says “play audio”. When you press that button, audio plays and the button’s text changes to “pause audio.” By updating the b … | Continue reading
If you watch this video at 0.5 playback speed, it sounds like a angry drunk hobo slurring his speech has wandered onto the stage—so much better that way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8q03gUCB690 | Continue reading