Checked in at The Lord Nelson Inn. Monthly session in The Nelson 🎶 | Continue reading
Checked in at Jolly Brewer. Wednesday night session 🎶🎻☘️ — with Jessica | Continue reading
Speaking of in-person gatherings, I’ve got some exciting—if not downright nervewracking—events coming up soon. Next week I’ll be in London for Leading Design. Looking at the line-up that Rebecca is assembled, I’m kind of blown away—it looks fantastic! You’ll notice that I’m in th … | Continue reading
I had fun on the weekend, hanging out with my buddy Cider. | Continue reading
Checked in at Dover Castle. Sessioning — with Jessica | Continue reading
I’ve had the opportunity to gather with my peers a few times over the past couple of months. There was dConstruct, which I hosted. That was just lovely. Then a few weeks ago, in spite of train strikes and travel snags, I went to Bristol to give a talk at Web Dev Conf, a really ni … | Continue reading
Reading The Unreal And The Real: Selected Stories Volume 2: Outer Space, Inner Lands by Ursula K. Le Guin. | Continue reading
Another shout-out to Utopia.fyi! #SotB2022 | Continue reading
Shout-out to Utopia.fyi! #SotB2022 | Continue reading
A recurring theme in my writing and talks is “lay off the JavaScript, people!” But I have to make a conscious effort to specify that I mean client-side JavaScript. I thought it would be obvious from the context that I was talking about the copious amounts of JavaScript being ship … | Continue reading
Coco demonstrates correct laptop usage. 💻 🐈#NotMyCat | Continue reading
There’s a repeated catchphrase used throughout Christopher Nolan’s film Tenet: ignorance is our ammunition. There are certainly situations where knowledge is regrettable. The somewhat-silly thought experiment of Roko’s basilisk is one example. Once you have knowledge of it, you c … | Continue reading
Checked in at Dover Castle. Monday night session — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checked in at The Brunswick. Ye Vagabonds — with Jessica | Continue reading
Reading Patternmaster by Octavia E. Butler. | Continue reading
Pub lunch in the countryside (with dog). | Continue reading
dConstruct 2022 was great fun. It was also the last ever dConstruct. If you were there, and you’d like to re-live the magic, the audio from the talks is now available on the dConstruct Archive. Here they are: George Oates Lauren Beukes Daniel Burka Sarah Angliss Matt Webb Seb Le … | Continue reading
Lovely tunes at The Star tonight. | Continue reading
Got a good haul from Bristol’s second-hand bookshops. 📚 | Continue reading
Checked in at The Star Inn. Sessioning in Brizzle | Continue reading
Playing in a session in Charlie’s, my old watering hole in Cork from my Art College days three decades ago. | Continue reading
Checked in at Charlie’s. Back in Charlie’s after 30 years, this time for a session — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checked in at An Spailpín Fánach. Cork Folk Festival, like | Continue reading
I wrote recently about making the switch to logical properties over on The Session. Initially I tried ripping the band-aid off and swapping out all the directional properties for logical properties. After all, support for logical properties is green across the board. But then I g … | Continue reading
Checked in at An Spailpín Fánach. Sliabh Luachra abú! — with Jessica | Continue reading
Up and about in the morning. | Continue reading
As you can probably tell from the stuff I’ve been linking to today and today’s Clearleft newsletter, I’ve got design systems on my mind. What I like about design systems is they encourage systems thinking …in theory. I mean, it’s right there in the name, right? But in practice I … | Continue reading
Going for a morning perambulation on Shoreham beach. | Continue reading
Reading Clay’s Ark by Octavia E. Butler. | Continue reading
Checked in at Jolly Brewer. A full house of musicians for tonight’s session — with Jessica | Continue reading
Inside me there are two wolves. They’re both super cute. Look—that one’s wearing a bandana! Adorbs! | Continue reading
I keep thinking about this blog post I linked to last week by Jacob Kaplan-Moss. It’s called Quality Is Systemic: Software quality is more the result of a system designed to produce quality, and not so much the result of individual performance. That is: a group of mediocre prog … | Continue reading
Checked in at The Bugle Inn. Playing some tunes with Rowan | Continue reading
I was refactoring some CSS on The Session over the weekend. I thought it would be good to switch over to using logical properties exclusively. I did this partly to make the site more easily translatable into languages with different writing modes, but mostly as an exercise to hel … | Continue reading
Now we go live to @Figma announcing its acquisition by @Adobe… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsLH70BrnnM | Continue reading
Enjoying the classic Mary Bergin/Alec Finn combo of whistle and bouzouki. | Continue reading
dConstruct 2022 happened last Friday, September 9th. And what an event it was! All eight talks were superb. To have eight speakers and not a single dud is pretty great. To have eight speakers and each one be absolutely brilliant is more than I could’ve hoped for. Hidde has writte … | Continue reading
Still thinking about these good doggos from Bark In The Park yesterday. | Continue reading