Reading Stories Of Ireland by Brien Friel.
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Going to Amsterdam. brb
Going to Amsterdam. brb
Monday session
Monday session
Irgendwas geht los in Koblenz 🤔
Irgendwas geht los in Koblenz 🤔
Amsterdamming
I’m heading to Amsterdam for CSS Day. It’s one of those events I try my best to get to every single year. I have no doubt that this year will be brilliant as usual.
There’s another event the day before CSS Day: The Web You Want:
What would the web be like if it was up to you?
There’ll be workshops and talks, all absolutely free.
I’ll be giving a talk. It’s supposed to be about the web I want, but I’m going to do my usual shtick of looking back at the history of the web to see what kind of things we wanted in the past. It’s called The Web You Wanted.
Register your attendance and I’ll see you there. Or maybe I’ll see you at CSS Day. Or at the session in Mulligan’s on Wednesday night.
I had a thoroughly enjoyable three days of hosting UX London this week and met such lovely people at the event—thank you to everyone who came!
I had a thoroughly enjoyable three days of hosting UX London this week and met such lovely people at the event—thank you to everyone who came!
Thursday session
Thursday session
25 years of The Session
The Session existed in a very basic form since the late 1990s. It was just me posting a different tune every week.
But The Session as it is today—a community website where everyone can add tunes—first went online on June 3rd, 2001. That’s 25 years ago today.
Considering the typical lifespan of a web page, I’m proud of having a website still online and thriving a quarter of a century after launching it.
At this point it’s fair to say that thesession.org is my life’s work. Though, really, I’m just the curator; the site would literally be nothing without all the contributions that people have made to it.
It’s been a great 25 years so far, and I’m looking forward to the next 25.
Tuesday session in London
Tuesday session in London
Piccia Neri’s post on LinkedIn
What a slap in the face of every tech conference that claims it is simply not possible to have a truly representative line-up: multiple perspectives, multiple faces, multiple experiences, rather than the same default one we’ve all been staring at for decades (that’s a white middle aged man in case you’re wondering. I do love you, white middle aged man, but we’ve heard from you, and keep hearing from you. Time to hear from others, too).
Yes, my friend. It is possible. UX London has done it. The Clearleft team has done it. Go look for yourself.
AI and the Rise of Mediocrity
Simply put: AI thrives when our need for originality is low and our demand for mediocrity is high.
AI will fill the world with grindingly average texts, passable but derivative illustration and video, and unoriginal but functional new product designs.
What is being mechanized by AI is our tastes—our ability to discern quality (or originality) at all.
Thursday session
Thursday session
Picture at an exhibition
I few weeks back, I got an email with the subject line, Screenshot in an Exhibition:
I am currently developing an exhibition celebrating the thriving folk musics of these islands for the Royal College of Music Museum and one of the showcases looks at the Sharing of folk ...
Wednesday session
Wednesday session
Signing in solidarity with Wiki Workers United: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Workers_United_solidarity#Signatures
Signing in solidarity with Wiki Workers United:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiWorkersUnited_solidarity#Signatures
Three things about data
- Data is a risk.
- Data is distracting.
- It becomes a job.
Monday session
Monday session
Gaeltacht cois Tamaise 2026
Bhà me i Londain an deireadh seachtaine seo caite mar gheall ar an Gaeltacht cois Tamaise. Cúpla lá iontach ba ea iad!
Bhà na ranganna ar siúl Dé Sathairn agus Dé Domhnaigh, ceithre huaire an chloig gach lá, i gColáiste na RÃ. Bhà ceithre leibhéal ann—tosathóiri, meanleibhé...
Happy birthday, Star Wars, responsive design, and Douglas Adams!
Happy birthday, Star Wars, responsive design, and Douglas Adams!
Saturday session in London.
Saturday session in London.
Londoning
Londoning
At the Royal College of Music Museum, where the new exhibit features thesession.org!
At the Royal College of Music Museum, where the new exhibit features thesession.org!
Going to London. brb
Going to London. brb
Reading Sarah Canary by Karen Joy Fowler.
Reading Sarah Canary by Karen Joy Fowler.
Thursday session
Thursday session
Brigid by Kim Curran
I enjoyed Kim Curran’s debut novel, The Morrigan, so when I saw a copy of her brand new book in the local library, I snapped it up.
Like The Morrigan, Brigid is modern retelling of Irish mythology, but in a very different time period. Whereas The Morrigan was set in a mythi...
Wednesday session
Wednesday session
Netizen | Derek Sivers
1993 shaped how I think of the internet, and I’m keepin’ on in that original spirit.
Like picking up trash where you walk, even if the rest of the world is full of litter. You keep doing what you can to make things better.
The value is in the difficulty - Annotations
We’ve seen this arc before, and music is the richest analogy.
Like Bruce Sterling always says:
Whatever happens to musicians happens to everybody.
Sunday session
Sunday session