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Thursday, January 15th, 2026

A man playing flute accompanied by a man playing Greek bouzouki in a nicely decorated pub.

Thursday session

Tuesday, January 13th, 2026

There should be a German word for the slightly smug warm feeling you get from using an obscure HTML element like dfn in your most recent blog post, like wot I did.

Elementenrichtigkeitsgefühl

Saturday, January 3rd, 2026

Three fiddlers. Flute and two fiddles. Fiddle and two concertinas. Guitar, flute, fiddle, and another flute.

Playing tunes in a kitchen on a Saturday night.

Sunday, December 28th, 2025

A cute doggo snoozing in a comfy dog bed.

Good night!

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2025

A woman playing fiddle and a man playing accordion at a pub table in the corner.

Wednesday session

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2025

Three women in a row playing fiddle in a pub.

Fiddlers three

Thursday, November 6th, 2025

“Fáilte go Knocka, fáilte go Knocka, gaelteacht nua i dtuisceart na cathrach!”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH772P6YbMQ

(Tá Kneecap ceart go leor, ach is fearr liom Kabin Crew!)

Wednesday, November 5th, 2025

A woman on stage with a keyboard. She’s dressed in a red Victorian mourning dress with lace fabric wrapped around her head.

Bhí RÓIS ar fheabhas anocht! Guth den scoth!

Monday, October 20th, 2025

Jessica and Mango the dog sitting side by side at a table with a coffee on it.

Having a coffee with Mango.

Confession: I can never remember the actual name of the coffee shop so in my mind it’s Mango’s.

Saturday, October 18th, 2025

Going to Cork (for real this time, I hope). brb

Tuesday, September 30th, 2025

Netflix’s House Of Guinness is schlocky trash but it’s schlocky trash with Irish subtitles available, so I’m thoroughly enjoying watching/reading it.

Monday, September 8th, 2025

My first book was published twenty years ago:

https://domscripting.com/

Back then, I never could’ve imagined that it might one day be ripped off to train a hallucinating autocomplete.

Follow your dreams, writers!

I’m sure the people who stayed in Omelas had lots of earnest discussions about harm reduction.

Monday, September 1st, 2025

A woman playing fiddle, a man playing concertina, a man playing flute, and a man playing guitar.

Monday session

Monday, August 18th, 2025

Did a live server migration over the weekend, switching over DNS like…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gU35Tgtlmg

Saturday, August 9th, 2025

Float like a bee, sting like a butterfly.

Friday, August 8th, 2025

I’m somewhat obsessed with CMAT’s Euro Country. An opening verse in Irish and a blistering bridge that might single-handedly scupper Bertie Ahern’s presidential ambitions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SVNTv44C4g

Monday, August 4th, 2025

Concertina, flute and guitar. Banjos, box and fiddle..

Monday session

A line of three women playing fiddle and me playing mandolin.

Ceol sa cultúrlann i mBéal Féirste

Wednesday, July 16th, 2025

A fiddle on a table in front of a man playing button accordion.

Wednesday session