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Thursday, January 1st, 2026

2026: The Year The Bubble Bursts

Tuesday, August 12th, 2025

I just found out that Stephanie “Steve” Shirley passed away.

She was an absolute hero to me.

Saturday, August 2nd, 2025

Mé seanding on the street pointing over my shoulder at a red brick building behind me.

Táim i gaeltacht Bhéal Feirste!

Wednesday, July 9th, 2025

Three young men sitting in a circle playing outdoors; two fiddlers and a piper.

Pipes and fiddles

Friday, May 16th, 2025

Proposal to rename language model benchmarks to Top Of The Slops.

Thursday, May 15th, 2025

A man playing guitar with another man playing Greek bouzouki.

Thursday session

Saturday, April 5th, 2025

A ridicously fluffly tabby cat lying splayed out on wooden decking, rubbing its ear with one of its paws.

Happy Caturday from Coco!

Thursday, May 16th, 2024

Today is a good day to revisit this episode of the Clearleft podcast with @cassiecodes@front-end.social, @tink@front-end.social, and @laura@mastodon.laurakalbag.com:

https://podcast.clearleft.com/season02/episode03/

#gaad

Friday, February 9th, 2024

It’s as if humans have a tendency to underestimate the difficulty of what other people do and overestimate the difficulty of what they themselves do.

Wednesday, January 3rd, 2024

A screenshot from Star Trek: The Next Generation where Data is telling Picard about 'the Irish Unification of 2024.'

We have within reach, now, the attainment of almost every dream of mankind.

— Gene Roddenberry

Thursday, September 21st, 2023

Checked in at Asador Carlos V. Lunch on the square — with Jessica map

Checked in at Asador Carlos V. Lunch on the square — with Jessica

Saturday, August 19th, 2023

Jessica in a red dress, me in a tux, both of us wearing masks. Me and Jessica dressed to the nines in black and white.

All dressed up.

Friday, July 7th, 2023

Replying to

There’s a chapter about it in the Francis Spufford book, Backroom Boys: The Secret Return of the British Boffin.

https://uk.bookshop.org/a/980/9780571214976

Thursday, July 6th, 2023

Replying to

That was Dunstan Orchard!

http://1976design.com/blog/

Monday, April 10th, 2023

Replying to

Love that book!

https://adactio.com/journal/12371

📚🚀

Friday, September 2nd, 2022

Replying to

I’m looking forward to the Temporal API (although that’s mostly because it sounds way cooler than it actually is—like it’s something to reach for when time travelling).

Thursday, July 7th, 2022

Three fiddlers, one standing and two seated, playing tunes on the street.

Seamus Sands, James Kelly, and Antóin Mac Gabhann—amazing fiddlers, and it turns out they all use thesession.org!

Thursday, March 17th, 2022

Up Cork!

Up Cork!

Thursday, October 28th, 2021

Replying to

Thanks! I highly recommend Learning Web Design by @Jenville

https://learningwebdesign.com/

Here are some more resources I’ve gathered:

https://adactio.com/tags/learning,beginner

Friday, October 22nd, 2021

In London.

In London.