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Monday session
Monday session
Chimes at Midnight—Asterisk
It’s been an idea for over three decades. How did the clock that will run for 10,000 years become a reality?
Playing Lucy Campbell, The Providence and Greig’s Pipes (reels) on mandolin with fiddles, flute, and pipes: https://thesession.org/members/1/sets/95567 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lV3eHtPnss
Playing Lucy Campbell, The Providence and Greig’s Pipes (reels) on mandolin with fiddles, flute, and pipes:
Making the new Salter Cane website
With the release of a new Salter Cane album I figured it was high time to update the design of the band’s website.
Here’s the old version for reference. As you can see, there’s a connection there in some of the design language. Even so, I decided to start completely from sc...
Ó Lá Fhéile Bríde amach, Bíonn na héin ag déanamh nead, Bíonn na caoire ag breith na n-uan, Is an lá ag dul i bhfad.
Ó Lá Fhéile Bríde amach, Bíonn na héin ag déanamh nead, Bíonn na caoire ag breith na n-uan, Is an lá ag dul i bhfad.
Friday morning kitchen session
Friday morning kitchen session
Lighthouse says https://saltercane.com is 🎉 💯💯💯💯 🎉
Lighthouse says https://saltercane.com is 🎉 💯💯💯💯 🎉
Just heard the sad news that Marianne Faithful has passed away. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHrsv0NVa6k
Just heard the sad news that Marianne Faithful has passed away.
Deep Black Water
Back in July 2023 I went into the studio along with the rest of Salter Cane.
We had been practicing a whole lot of new songs for over a year beforehand. Now we were ready to record them.
We went in with a shared approach. We were going to record everything live. We were go...
Giving the Salter Cane website a fresh lick of paint: https://saltercane.com/
Giving the Salter Cane website a fresh lick of paint:
6 CSS Snippets Every Front-End Developer Should Know In 2025 · 19 January 2025
nerdy.dev/6-css-snippets-every-front-end-developer-should-know-in-2025
- Springy easing with
linear()- Typed custom properties
- View transitions for page navigation
- Transition animation for
dialogandpopover- Transition animation for
details- Animated adaptive gradient text
There are plenty of non-men in tech to speak at your conference - Stephanie Stimac’s Blog
blog.stephaniestimac.com/posts/2025/1/conference-speaker-line-ups/
I’m going to share this with the organisers of that conference I pulled out of recently.
Yesterday I watched Martin Scorsese’s Rolling Thunder Revue. Today I’m watching Martin Scorsese’s The Last Waltz. The highlight in both of them is when Joni Mitchell sings Coyote.
Yesterday I watched Martin Scorsese’s Rolling Thunder Revue.
Today I’m watching Martin Scorsese’s The Last Waltz.
The highlight in both of them is when Joni Mitchell sings Coyote.
Really enjoying Dreamytime Escorts + Patients at The Albert
Really enjoying Dreamytime Escorts + Patients at The Albert
Blog Questions Challenge
I’ve been tagged in a good ol’-fashioned memetic chain letter, first by Jon and then by Luke. Only by answering these questions can my soul find peace…
Why did you start blogging in the first place?
All the cool kids were doing it. I distinctly remember thinking it was far...
Build for the Web, Build on the Web, Build with the Web – Web Performance and Site Speed Consultant
csswizardry.com/2025/01/build-for-the-web-build-on-the-web-build-with-the-web/
If I was only able to give one bit of advice to any company: iterate quickly on a slow-moving platform.
Excellent advice from Harry (who first cast his pearls before the swine of LinkedIn but I talked him ‘round to posting this on his own site).
- Opt into web platform features incrementally
- Embrace progressive enhancement to build fast, reliable applications that adapt to your customers’ context
- Write code that leans into the browser, not away from it
I’m not against front-end frameworks, and, believe me, I’m not naive enough to believe that the only thing a front-end framework provides is soft navigations, but if you’re going to use one, I shouldn’t be able to smell it.
Reading Short Stories In Irish by Olly Richards.
Reading Short Stories In Irish by Olly Richards.
Wednesday session
Wednesday session
Research By The Sea
I’m going to be hosting Research By The Sea on Thursday, February 27th right here in Brighton. I’m getting very excited and nervous about it.
The nervousness is understandable. I want to do a good job. Hosting a conference is like officiating a wedding. You want to put peop...
Justified Text: Better Than Expected? – Cloud Four
Some interesting experiments in web typography here.
Software Folklore ― Andreas Zwinkau
Detective stories and tales of bughunting in software and hardware.
Sometimes bugs have symptoms beyond belief. This is a collection of such stories from around the web.
The New York Good Times
Moving on from React, a Year Later
kellysutton.com/2025/01/18/moving-on-from-react-a-year-later.html
Many interactions are not possible without JavaScript, but that doesn’t mean we should look to write more than we have to. The server doing something useful is a requirement for building an interesting business. The client doing something is often a nice-to-have.
There’s also this:
It’s really fast
One of the arguments for a SPA is that it provides a more reactive customer experience. I think that’s mostly debunked at this point, due to the performance creep and complexity that comes in with a more complicated client-server relationship.
> Anyone who doesn’t understand the old gods has never looked up at the sky. — Denise Wilton
Anyone who doesn’t understand the old gods has never looked up at the sky.
On Transient Slash Pages • Robb Knight
This is a great idea that I’m going to file away for later:
I like the idea of redirecting
/nowto the latest post tagged asnowso one could see the latest version of what I’m doing now.
What I’ve learned about writing AI apps so far | Seldo.com
seldo.com/posts/what-ive-learned-about-writing-ai-apps-so-far
LLMs are good at transforming text into less text
Laurie is really onto something with this:
This is the biggest and most fundamental thing about LLMs, and a great rule of thumb for what’s going to be an effective LLM application. Is what you’re doing taking a large...
> When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find that far more, and far more hideous, crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion. — C.P. Snow
When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find that far more, and far more hideous, crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.
— C.P. Snow
Monday session
Monday session
Elektra
I’ve been reading lots of modern takes on Greek classics. So when I saw that there was going to be a short of run of Sophocles’s Electra at Brighton’s Theatre Royal, I grabbed some tickets for the opening night.
With Brie Larson taking on the title role in this production, ...