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Back from Spain with a good haul…
Monday session in Madrid.
On stage in Cáceres.
More street sessions in Cáceres.
Made a nice salad for lunch in Cáceres. 🥗
Last night’s fun.
Rooftop apartment.
Street session in Cáceres.
Enjoying a nice tapas crawl through Madrid.
Going to Madrid. brb
Wednesday session
Even a stopped watch is right twice a day.
Related: this week Don Trump said he’d like a united Ireland, and that all this talk of humanity-ending AI is bollocks.
tola.me.uk/blog/2026/02/12/how-i-think-web-apps-should-be-installed/
Some good ideas on how browsers could offer the ability to install the current site. Frankly, anything would be better than the current woeful situation!
Monday session
Reading Lake of Souls: The Collected Short Fiction by Ann Leckie.
Today I’ll mostly be listening to The Bothy Band, in memory of Paddy Keenan—what a piper!
Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam.
ronaldsvilcins.com/2026/08/30/native-html-and-css-features-that-replaced-javascript/
Modern HTML and CSS have gained a surprising number of features that cover interactions and layout problems we used to solve with custom scripts or libraries. JavaScript obviously isn’t going anywhere, and there are plenty of things that still require it, but in 2026 I find myself needing it less often for ordinary website interfaces.
buttondown.com/practicaltips/archive/on-artificial-intelligence/
I hope you’ll read and understand that for many of us, this isn’t a knee-jerk reaction or a culty, cosmic doomer rant. It’s about money, power, and quality of life for me and the people I share a planet with.
Matt’s position very much mirrors my own.
As long as I have a choice, and the economic means to keep a roof over my head and a set of reasonably firm values, I am opting out of first-person interaction with AI. And if any of my situation changes for the worse, before I accept AI as my lord and master, I will go down swinging.
Sunday session
Today is Bandcamp Friday: https://saltercane.bandcamp.com/album/deep-black-water
Tomorrow is Salter Cane Saturday: https://saltercane.com/tickets
Thursday session
aeon.co/essays/humans-did-not-invent-art-it-was-the-other-way-around
The question of when humans invented art leads us to imagine early humans much like ourselves, deciding one day to express themselves through symbols and figures. The assumption hidden in the question is that they already had minds like ours and simply chose, out of all the things they might have done on a frigid day in the Ice Age, to pick up ochre and make animal pictures. But the evidence, it seems to me, points the other way: it was the practice of making images, repeated over hundreds of generations, that occasioned the emergence of those minds we take for granted.
A fascinating essay by Celine Nguyen on the history of taste; not changing tastes but the very concept of taste throughout history.
Wednesday session
Mark Weiser, the person who framed ubiquitous computing, never said the goal was seamless. He warned that making everything seamless is the same as making everything uniform, and he argued for seamful systems, ones that let each part remain itself. Chalmers and MacColl turned this into a full design position: questioning the assumption that seamlessness is a requirement, and arguing that visible seams can be useful, even appropriated by people for their own ends.
Amid the dying embers, a resilient cohort of indie web bloggers, artists and creators will keep going, keep on talking to each other through their blogs, without tracking, pop-ups or invasive ads. Making fun websites, helpful websites, pointless websites (the best kind) that serve no purpose other than to manifest someone’s spark of creativity. Ignored by the lumbering giants that have gorged themselves into a stupor, keeping low under the radar of the hungry LLM crawlers eager to voraciously gobble up the last remaining crumbs of the free web.
