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Monday, February 17th, 2025

A guitar in the foreground at a table with two concertina players.

Monday session

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

— Charlie Chaplin, The Great Dictator

Saturday, February 15th, 2025

Close up of a microphone. In the background, musicians are sorting out their instruments: guitar, drums, and bass.

Saturday morning band practice.

Saturday, August 24th, 2024

Waves breaking on a sandy beach where some people are standing or lying under a blue sky dotted with a few clouds.

Beach day

Wednesday, July 31st, 2024

Looking down on a green and brown coastal landscape where a river enters the sea. Looking down on a fort on an outcrop of land jutting into the ocean.

Enjoying the view

Wednesday, July 26th, 2023

Jessica in profile playing fiddle in full flow.

Fiddling in Belfast.

Monday, April 17th, 2023

Reading The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller.

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Sunday, March 26th, 2023

Reading Circe by Madeline Miller.

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Monday, December 5th, 2022

Reading The Táin translated by Ciaran Carson.

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Wednesday, November 23rd, 2022

Checked in at Taaffes. A pint and some tunes 🎶 — with Jessica map

Checked in at Taaffes. A pint and some tunes 🎶 — with Jessica

Monday, November 14th, 2022

Replying to

Yay! 🎉

Saturday, October 22nd, 2022

Michelle Barker on stage in front of a screenshot of the Utopia website.

Another shout-out to Utopia.fyi! #SotB2022

Friday, June 24th, 2022

Talking about style

I’ve published a transcription of the talk I gave at CSS Day:

In And Out Of Style.

The title is intended to have double meaning. The obvious reference is that CSS is about styling web pages. But the talk also covers some long-term trends looking at ideas that have appear, disappear, and reappear over time. Hence, style as in trends and fashion.

There are some hyperlinks in the transcript but I also published a list of links if you’re interested in diving deeper into some of the topics mentioned in the talk.

I also published the slides but, as usual, they don’t make much sense out of context. They’re on Noti.st too.

I made an audio recording for your huffduffing pleasure.

There are two videos of this talk. On Vimeo, there’s the version I pre-recorded for An Event Apart online. On YouTube, there’s the recording from CSS Day.

It’s kind of interesting to compare the two (well, interesting to me, anyway). The pre-recorded version feels like a documentary. The live version has more a different vibe and it obviously has more audience interaction. I think my style of delivery suits a live audience best.

I invite you to read, watch, or listen to In And Out Of Style, whichever you prefer.

Friday, January 7th, 2022

Replying to

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Saturday, January 1st, 2022

On this day in 1983 the ARPANET completed the switchover to TCP/IP, as planned by the late great Jon Postel:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc801

Happy 39th birthday, internet as we know it!

Saturday, August 28th, 2021

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Zürich vom Berg, Zürich vom See.

Thursday, August 26th, 2021

Funiculì, Funiculà

Funiculì, Funiculà

Gâteau, bateau. 🍰 ⛵️

Gâteau, bateau. 🍰 ⛵️

Wednesday, August 25th, 2021

Goodnight, Zürich!

Goodnight, Zürich!

Friday, August 13th, 2021

Hello, London!

Hello, London!