Notes

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Wednesday, November 27th, 2024

A man playing banjo alongside a woman playing fiddle at a pub table.

Wednesday session

Reading Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin.

Buy this book

Monday, November 25th, 2024

A man playing guitar accompanying a man playing tin whistle at a pub table bedecked with drinks.

Monday session

Sunday, November 24th, 2024

A fiddlers, guitar player and bodhrán player all in a row.

Sunday session

Wednesday, November 20th, 2024

A hand is holding a fiddle and bow in front of a man playing flute in a pub.

Wednesday session

Looking up the translation for the word “cute” in another language, it’s listed in a dictionary as “cute, a.F” where “a.F” stands for “adjective, Familiar” …but that is not how I read it at first!

Tuesday, November 19th, 2024

A screenshot of the posting interface on my website showing a form field with this note written it. Below there are two selected buttons: Mastodon and Bluesky.

I’ve updated my website’s posting interface to allow me to selectively POSSE to Mastodon and/or Bluesky (previously I was using RSS-to-micro.blog for Bluesky syndication)

Sunday, November 17th, 2024

A circle of musicians: fiddles and tin whistle accompanying a singer playing guitar.

Sunday session

Sitting in the front row at the Duke Of York’s to see Danny Boyle’s Sunshine projected on the big screen.

It’s daylight saving time!

Thursday, November 14th, 2024

Two men turned towards one another at a tabled bedecked with lots of small plates of food.

Lunching and talking design with Daniel and Chris.

Wednesday, November 13th, 2024

Close up of a fiddle lying on a table in front of an accordion being played.

Wednesday session

Replying to a post on shkspr.mobi

Super Toilets were supposed to last all summer long.

Genuine LOL—I reckon Brian Aldiss would approve!

I reckon Musk should’ve been put in charge of mass deportations—I mean, just look at the amount of people he’s already managed to get to leave Twitter.

Tuesday, November 12th, 2024

A man playing fiddle with a man playing bodhrán.

Tuesday session

Monday, November 11th, 2024

A man and a woman both playing concertina side by side at a pub table covered with drinks.

Monday session

Sunday, November 10th, 2024

A man playing whistle and a woman playing fiddle, both of them wrapped up warm.

Sunday session

Friday, November 8th, 2024

Well, #FFConf today was a wonderful balm for the soul.

The talks were excellent, and it was really, really good to see people I hadn’t seen in a while—I needed that.

Thank you, Julie. Thank you, Remy.

I think it is beautiful if people have a purpose. But it should be valid to lead a purposeless life too. … Maybe it is okay to not pursue potential and just be okay with being.

— Winne Lim

There’s a lot of great discussion at #FFconf about meaning and purpose, but I keep thinking about this terrific blog post by Winnie Lim on leading a purposeless life:

https://winnielim.org/journal/on-leading-a-purposeless-life/

Four white men standing and talking outside the conference venue.

The Shadow DOM discussion is happening outside #FFconf.

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