Back in July 2023 I went into the studio along with the rest of Salter Cane. We had been practicing a whole lot of new songs for over a year beforehand. Now we were ready to record them. We went in with a shared approach. We were going to record everything live. We were going to … | Continue reading
Giving the Salter Cane website a fresh lick of paint: https://saltercane.com/ | Continue reading
Yesterday I watched Martin Scorsese’s Rolling Thunder Revue. Today I’m watching Martin Scorsese’s The Last Waltz. The highlight in both of them is when Joni Mitchell sings Coyote. | Continue reading
I’ve been tagged in a good ol’-fashioned memetic chain letter, first by Jon and then by Luke. Only by answering these questions can my soul find peace… Why did you start blogging in the first place? All the cool kids were doing it. I distinctly remember thinking it was far too la … | Continue reading
Reading Short Stories In Irish by Olly Richards. | Continue reading
I’m going to be hosting Research By The Sea on Thursday, February 27th right here in Brighton. I’m getting very excited and nervous about it. The nervousness is understandable. I want to do a good job. Hosting a conference is like officiating a wedding. You want to put people at … | Continue reading
Anyone who doesn’t understand the old gods has never looked up at the sky. — Denise Wilton | Continue reading
When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find that far more, and far more hideous, crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion. — C.P. Snow | Continue reading
I’ve been reading lots of modern takes on Greek classics. So when I saw that there was going to be a short of run of Sophocles’s Electra at Brighton’s Theatre Royal, I grabbed some tickets for the opening night. With Brie Larson taking on the title role in this production, it’s b … | Continue reading
Reading The Last Song Of Penelope by Claire North. | Continue reading
It always annoys me when a politician is accused of “flip-flopping” when they change their mind on something. Instead of admiring someone for being willing to re-examine previously-held beliefs, we lambast them. We admire conviction, even though that’s a trait that has been at th … | Continue reading
When I was looking back at 2024, I mentioned that I didn’t give a single conference talk (though I did host three conferences—Patterns Day, CSS Day, and UX London). I almost spoke at a conference though. I was all set to speak at an event in the Netherlands. But then the line-up … | Continue reading
The new Salter Cane album is available on Spotify now: https://open.spotify.com/album/3MeUNUs1EKdleklacQMaQB | Continue reading
Back in 2019 I had the amazing experience of going to CERN and being part of a team building an emulator of the first ever browser. Remy was on the team too. He did the heavy lifting of actually making the thing work—quite an achievement in just five days! Coming into this, I t … | Continue reading
I can’t wait to play this song live! https://saltercane.bandcamp.com/track/something-underwater “There’s something in the water Like the holy face of God It’s out there on the borders And rising inside us” | Continue reading
The new Salter Cane album just dropped on Bandcamp! https://saltercane.bandcamp.com/album/deep-black-water | Continue reading
If you want to watch me and Remy presenting live, join us here at 7:30pm https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XONerj4rE2I | Continue reading
People of Brighton—myself and Remy are giving a talk this evening at AsyncJS; you should come along! https://asyncjs.com/built-www-in-5-days/ There will be pizza! | Continue reading
His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead. — James Joyce, The Dead | Continue reading
Withdrawing from a conference I was supposed to be speaking at later this year. The line-up currently shows that out of a total of 73 speakers, a grand total of 8 are women. | Continue reading
There goes 2024. It was a year dominated by Ukraine and Gaza. Utterly horrific and unnecessary death courtesy of Putin and Netanyahu. For me personally, 2024 was just fine. I was relatively healthy all year. The people I love were relatively healthy too. I don’t take that for gra … | Continue reading
Athbhliain faoi mhaise daoibh go léir a chairde! | Continue reading
People spent a lot of time and energy in 2024 talking about (and on) other people’s websites. Twitter. Bluesky. Mastodon. Even LinkedIn. I observed it all with the dispassionate perspective of Dr. Manhattan on Mars. While I’m happy to see more people abondoning the cesspool that … | Continue reading
I’ve been keeping track of the books I’m reading for about seven years now. I do that here on my own website, as well as on bookshop.org. It has become something of a tradition for me to post an end-of-year summary of the books I’ve read in the previous twelve months. Maybe I sho … | Continue reading
Nollaig shona daoibh go léir a chairde! | Continue reading
Playing Elizabeth Kelly’s Delight (slip jig) and Patsy Geary’s (jig) on mandolin with Jessica on fiddle: https://thesession.org/tunes/953 https://thesession.org/tunes/9076 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rgCRPPTo40 | Continue reading
The Session has been online for over 20 years. When you maintain a site for that long, you don’t want to be relying on third parties—it’s only a matter of time until they’re no longer around. Some third party APIs are unavoidable. The Session has maps for sessions and other event … | Continue reading
Feature suggestion: an end-of-year Spotify Unwrapped thingy but for Wikipedia contributions (maybe it would encourage me to contribute more). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Adactio | Continue reading
Reading Europe at Dawn by Dave Hutchinson. | Continue reading
Looking up the translation for the word “cute” in another language, it’s listed in a dictionary as “cute, a.F” where “a.F” stands for “adjective, Familiar” …but that is not how I read it at first! | Continue reading
I’ve updated my website’s posting interface to allow me to selectively POSSE to Mastodon and/or Bluesky (previously I was using RSS-to-micro.blog for Bluesky syndication) | Continue reading
Sitting in the front row at the Duke Of York’s to see Danny Boyle’s Sunshine projected on the big screen. It’s daylight saving time! | Continue reading
Lunching and talking design with Daniel and Chris. | Continue reading