Checked in at Jolly Brewer. Wednesday night session — with Jessica | Continue reading
You can split the web in many ways. Lionel Dricot wrote about one of those ways in a blog post called Splitting the Web. In it, he outlines an ever-increasing divide he sees on the web. On the one hand you’ve got people experiencing the advertising-driven, tracking-addicted big p … | Continue reading
Checked in at The Bugle Inn. Sunday afternoon is | Continue reading
Checked in at The Garrick. Last session of the festival | Continue reading
An afternoon session in The Duke Of York. | Continue reading
Checked in at Kelly’s Cellars. First session of the day! | Continue reading
Checked in at Kelly’s Cellars. A session with John Doyle — with Jessica | Continue reading
Reading An Immense World by Ed Yong. | Continue reading
Checked in at Maddens Bar. Playing in a massive session led by Angelina Carberry — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checked in at Maddens Bar. Listening | Continue reading
Checked in at Fountain Lane. In the session | Continue reading
Checked in at Kelly’s Cellars. The sessioning continues! — with Jessica | Continue reading
Celebrating with the birthday girl. | Continue reading
Checked in at The Sunflower. Kicking off Belfast tradfest! — with Jessica | Continue reading
Eating my way across Belfast. | Continue reading
Learning about our business plan from our business expert. | Continue reading
Day two in the studio with Salter Cane. | Continue reading
Setting up for the next three days in the studio with Salter Cane. | Continue reading
You know what day it is today, right? Time to fire up the time machine: https://apolloinrealtime.org/11/ It’s T minus 4 hours, 42 minutes to launch! | Continue reading
These are the clock-makers I know: https://social.vasilis.nl/@Vasilis https://front-end.social/@Mia https://mastodon.social/@genmon https://mastodon.social/@Edent That’s a cool gang of nerds. | Continue reading
Social networks come and social networks go. Right now, there’s a whole bunch of social networks coming (Blewski, Freds, Mastication) and one big one going, thanks to Elongate. Me? I watch all of this unfold like Doctor Manhattan on Mars. I have no great connection to any of thes … | Continue reading
Checked in at Jolly Brewer. Wednesday night session — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checked in at Dover Castle. Tuesday night session — with Jessica | Continue reading
Back when the web was young, it wasn’t yet clear what the rules were. Like, could you really just link to something without asking permission? Then came some legal rulings to establish that, yes, on the web you can just link to anything without checking if it’s okay first. What a … | Continue reading
Reading The Silence Of The Girls by Pat Barker. | Continue reading
Checked in at The Fiddler’s Elbow. Monday night session | Continue reading
On Inishbofin he looked to the sky and saw fires on the moon. — Kevin Barry, Roethke in the Bughouse | Continue reading
Hanging out with the cat and my mandolin. | Continue reading
Listening to this album of cover versions that we (Salter Cane) recorded years ago—live in the studio with no overdubs—and thinking it sounds pretty damned good, actually! https://soundcloud.com/saltercane/sets/joy | Continue reading
Checked in at The Ancient Mariner. Thursday night session 🪕 — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checked in at Jolly Brewer. Wednesday night session 🪕 — with Jessica | Continue reading
Reading That Old Country Music by Kevin Barry. | Continue reading
When I was hosting the DIBI conference in Edinburgh back in May, I moderated an impromptu panel on AI: On the whole, it stayed quite grounded and mercifully free of hyperbole. Both speakers were treating the current crop of technologies as tools. Everyone agreed we were on the … | Continue reading
A short talk delivered at a gathering in Brighton by the Design Business Association in July 2023 on the topic of “Web3, AI and Design”. | Continue reading
Quite a few people have been linking to this list on The Verge of what they consider the greatest tech books of all time. To be clear, this is a fairly narrow definition of technology. It’s really a list of books about the history of computing. But there’s some great stuff in the … | Continue reading
Checked in at The Bugle Inn. Sunday afternoon session | Continue reading
I just realised that Hanlon’s razor is like a memetic variation of the fundamental attribution error. | Continue reading
Checked in at The Lord Nelson Inn. Thursday night session | Continue reading
I’m looking forward to the Poker Face / Nomadland crossover, featuring Natasha Lyonne and Frances McDormand travelling across America, working minumum wage jobs and solving crimes while avoiding emotional entanglements. | Continue reading
Checked in at Jolly Brewer. Fiddletastic Wednesday night session — with Jessica | Continue reading
UX London 2023 is over. That feels weird. I’ve spent most of this year planning for this event. It’s been something that’s coming towards me. Now it’s in the rear-view mirror. Surreal. I’ve talked about this with other conference organisers. Some of them get the post-conference b … | Continue reading