Spent the evening in my happy place, playing in a sublime session with the finest fiddlers and pipers! | Continue reading
Checked in at The Empire Music Hall. Zoe Conway kicking off Belfast Trad Fest! — with Jessica | Continue reading
Starting a six-week sabbatical …now! | Continue reading
Back when South by Southwest wasn’t terrible, there used to be an annual panel called Browser Wars populated with representatives from the main browser vendors (except for Apple, obviously, who would never venture onto a stage outside of their own events). I remember getting into … | Continue reading
Went for a nice walk along the cliffs yesterday. | Continue reading
I love how this timeline of Irish inventions starts with the ancient Ogham writing system and culminates in the creation of the spice bag: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TimelineofIrishinventionsand_discoveries | Continue reading
Kind of miffed that this evening’s traditional Irish music session in the Jolly Brewer has been cancelled because of the men’s football—I was looking forward to playing some tunes! | Continue reading
I was having a discussion with some of my peers a little while back. We were collectively commenting on the state of education and documentation for front-end development. A lot of the old stalwarts have fallen by the wayside of late. CSS Tricks hasn’t been the same since it got … | Continue reading
Reading Ithaca by Claire North. | Continue reading
Thank you, Brighton library — you did it! https://adactio.com/journal/21135 | Continue reading
The most stupid sentence ever published by Mozilla: “To avoid confirmation bias and subjective interpretation, we decided to leverage language models for a more objective analysis of the data.” Just use everyone else’s biases! | Continue reading
Went for a nice walk in the countryside yesterday. | Continue reading
My phone rang today. I didn’t recognise the number so although I pressed the big red button to answer the call, I didn’t say anything. I didn’t say anything because usually when I get a call from a number I don’t know, it’s some automated spam. If I say nothing, the spam voice do … | Continue reading
I had a nice long walk along Brighton seafront today. | Continue reading
Listening to the brilliant Maggie Appleton at #UXlondon. | Continue reading
Happy Bloomsday, happy father’s day, happy Valentina Tereshkova day, and Eid Mubarak! | Continue reading
My bug report on Apple’s websites-in-the-dock feature on desktop has me thinking about how starkly different it is on mobile. On iOS if you want to add a website to your home screen, good luck. The option is buried within the “share” menu. First off, it makes no sense that adding … | Continue reading
Apple announced some stuff about artificial insemination at their WorldWide Developer Conference, none of which interests me one whit. But we did get a twitch of the webkit curtains to let us know what’s coming in Safari. That does interest me. I’m really pleased to see that on d … | Continue reading
I see that Brighton Library still hasn’t fixed its deeply insulting shelf-labelling issue. https://adactio.com/journal/21135 | Continue reading
My stint as one of the hosts of CSS Day went very well indeed. I enjoyed myself and people seemed to like the cut of my jib. During the event there was a real buzz on Mastodon, which was heartening to see. I was beginning to worry that hashtagging events was going to be collatora … | Continue reading
Heading home after another excellent #CSSday in Amsterdam — it was an honour to be the host for day one. Thank you to all the great speakers and organisers! | Continue reading
Kicking off CSS Day with the morning recitation of A Dao Of Web Design. | Continue reading
I haven’t spoken at any conferences so far this year, and I don’t have any upcoming talks. That feels weird. I’m getting kind of antsy to give a talk. I suspect my next talk will have something to do with HTML web components. If you’re organising an event and that sounds interest … | Continue reading
Jeremy Keith drops a truth bomb about Google, MDN and other corps real biggest asset. | Continue reading
Remember that Hustlechad who announced he’s done a “website heist” by generating SEO spam with AI? Some real Daniel Day Lewis “I drink your milkshake” vibes. | Continue reading
One of the first ever personal websites—long before the word “blog” was a mischievous gleam in Peter’s eye—was Justin Hall’s links.net. Linking was right there in the domain name. I really enjoy sharing links on my website. It feels good to point to something and say, “Hey, check … | Continue reading
The output of generative tools based on large language models gives me the ick. This isn’t a measured logical response. It’s more of an involuntary emotional reaction. I could try to justify my reaction by saying I’m concerned about the exploitation involved in the training data, … | Continue reading
Reading The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood. | Continue reading
Wishing I could be in Köln this evening for the premiere of “This Is What I Want To Do”—mein FOMO ist groß! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48YdZrCsafA | Continue reading
Socialising in England usually follows a set pattern. You work during the week. You go out on the weekend. This week I’ve been doing the exact opposite. I’ve been out every weeknight and I plan to stay in all weekend. Monday On Monday Jessica and I took a trip up to London. Dinne … | Continue reading
Thank you to @wienerlibrary@zwezo.o-k-i.net for last night’s screening of The Zone Of Interest with director Jonathan Glazer. | Continue reading