Note archive: July, 2020

Playing My Darling Asleep (jig) on mandolin:

https://thesession.org/tunes/76

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqKfFkirYhE

I think that was dConstruct 2015.

Eid Mubarak, Sara!

Playing An Ugly Customer (reel) on mandolin:

https://thesession.org/tunes/5480

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQgB-G_wJ8M

Playing The Blarney Pilgrim (jig) on mandolin:

https://thesession.org/tunes/5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ypb9LWQmFPc

There’s also the ongoing pitch drop experiments:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitchdropexperiment

• 100 years: https://www.futurelibrary.no/
• 693 years: https://universes.art/en/specials/john-cage-organ-project-halberstadt/
• 1000 years: https://www.amherst.edu/museums/mead/exhibitions/2015/-jonathon-keats-photographing-deep-time-

Looking forward to an excellent evening’s entertainment from @CassieCodes, @HankChizlJaw, @CarieFisher, @HolaSoyMilk, @MicheBarks, and @MxBck:

https://webclerks.at/vienna-calling/

It’s Vienna. But this means nothing to me.

The latest episode of the Clearleft podcast is out!

It’s all about design ops …no, wait! Come back! It’s more interesting than it sounds, honest!

https://podcast.clearleft.com/season01/episode04/

I just stumbled across this recording from a band I sometimes played with in Germany in the 90s doing a cover of Eisbär (I’m on bouzouki):

https://soundcloud.com/user-52736705/lunar-ride-eisbar-grauzone-cover-live-zmf-1999

I concur that impact is more important than motive.

That’s why I was surprised that you ascribed motive in your blog post (a motive that contradicts Apple’s stated motive).

I’m trying to make of it what you will, but you won’t tell me. 🙂

They claim one motive (privacy). You claim another (not wishing to expand the web platform).

Which one is true and which one is false?

Nowhere in published policy documents do Apple or Mozilla say that they do not wish to expand the web platform.

You wrote a blog post stating that Apple and Mozilla do not wish to expand the web platform.

So you’re not accusing them of lying?

You claim that they do not wish to expand the web platform.

What they have written published in policy documents is that they have privacy concerns.

Is what they are saying true?

You should be a politician.

It’s a “yes” or “no” question.

Are they lying?

Are they lying about their motives?

You say their motivation is that they do not wish to expand the web platform.

They say their motivation is privacy.

Is that a lie?

So you think they’re lying?

They also gave their reasoning (privacy concerns). You’re claiming their stated reasons aren’t their real motives.

Someone at Google, of all places, should know better than to ascribe shadowy motives to a company’s actions.

I agree. Competition is good. What isn’t good is talking about the competition using the language of conspiracy theories:

There is a contingent of browser vendors today who do not wish to expand the web platform…

I wrote about the differences in priorities here:

https://adactio.com/journal/17114

Playing The Gravel Walks (reel) on bouzouki:

https://thesession.org/tunes/42

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upC8ONLaQ6c

Playing The Kerfunten (jig) by @CuilAodhaHammy on mandolin:

https://thesession.org/tunes/139

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGXOQuKLKHE

Playing The Hills Of Coore (hornpipe) by Junior Crehan on mandolin:

https://thesession.org/tunes/2157

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKDvHYI1k5w

1. https://thesession.org/
2. https://resilientwebdesign.com/
3. https://huffduffer.com/
4. https://adactio.com/
5. https://podcast.clearleft.com

Playing Behind The Haystack (jig) on mandolin:

https://thesession.org/tunes/358

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5FmP22FU34

I have an SEO joke, skit, humour, funny, laughing, story, anecdote, gag.

Playing Jessica’s (polka) on mandolin:

https://thesession.org/tunes/1532

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4RgG-9cR9M

Bella the Beagle is the best co-worker!

Playing Old John’s (jig) on guitar:

https://thesession.org/tunes/57

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXJtadvYPcw

@LadyAdaKing Great work on the W3C Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct—I love the way it applies Postel’s Law!

https://www.w3.org/Consortium/cepc/cepc-20200716/

Playing The Maids Of Mount Kisco (reel) on mandolin:

https://thesession.org/tunes/432

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALTo9_0eJC8

For a moment there, I thought this was a tweet from @MagicRealismBot. 🙂

I tried to grok AMP 5 years ago:

https://adactio.com/journal/9646

Apple has Apple News. Facebook has Instant Articles. Now Google has AMP: Accelerated Mobile Pages.

The big players sure are going to a lot of effort to reinvent RSS.

It’s here! The latest episode of the @Clearleft podcast is all about the fantastic work the team did with @NHM_London on the website for the Wildlife Photographer Of The Year competition:

https://podcast.clearleft.com/season01/episode03/

If you watch that new Tom Hanks film Greyhound, you might hear a reference to huffduffing…

Playing The Jig Of Life on mandolin:

https://thesession.org/tunes/7575

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtYg5G70wY8

(From The Hounds Of Love by Kate Bush, 1985)

I hope you’re subscribed to the @Clearleft podcast …’cause you won’t want to miss the episode that’s coming tomorrow!

https://podcast.clearleft.com/

Playing The Chicago Reel on mandolin:

https://thesession.org/tunes/840

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwSIZe9SZh4

Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)

Playing Out On The Ocean (jig) on mandolin:

https://thesession.org/tunes/108

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hltHgUZQ—o

Watching Selma (2014).

I wrote a little something about that…

https://adactio.com/journal/17140

Playing The New Mown Meadows (reel) on mandolin:

https://thesession.org/tunes/2706

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15cuzPTOypE

Just finished reading Superior: The Return of Race Science by Angela Saini; a superbly researched and written book that had me thoroughly gripped. Highly recommended!

https://www.angelasaini.co.uk/superior

Beautiful!

The last time I saw a comet was Hale-Bopp (or was it Hyakutake?) in ’97 …before that it was Halley’s in ’86.

Comet vintages.

Went outside to watch the ISS fly right overhead, very bright! Saw comet NEOWISE too—what a beauty!

Go outside and take a look. Trace a path from the two stars at the base of the plough towards the horizon. Use binoculars if you have them.

Playing The Cordal Jig on mandolin:

https://thesession.org/tunes/864

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLqwc2b0Z6g

Playing The Steampacket (reel) on mandolin:

https://thesession.org/tunes/690

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOpfL5yS8c0

Playing The Walls Of Liscarroll (jig) on bouzouki:

https://thesession.org/tunes/9601

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJtmMP6yl4A

The second episode of the @Clearleft podcast is out!

https://podcast.clearleft.com/season01/episode02/

It’s all about service design and features @UXLondon talks from @KerryBodine, @Jamin, and @LouiseDowne (and a story from @Clagnut).

Playing Maudabawn Chapel (reel) by Ed Reavy on mandolin:

https://thesession.org/tunes/302

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdA_gMJHtkM

Hear, hear!

I mean…

Read, read!

If you haven’t yet subscribed to the @Clearleft podcast, you can rectify that oversight:

https://podcast.clearleft.com/

There’s a new episode coming tomorrow—’sgonna be goooood!

Playing Bill Harte’s (jig) on mandolin:

https://thesession.org/tunes/2788

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFWdVsbr4nQ

Playing The Sailor’s Bonnet (reel) on mandolin:

https://thesession.org/tunes/570

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcvZyQaa0r8

Playing The Ships In Full Sail (jig) on mandolin:

https://thesession.org/tunes/261

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQiftGz_GeE

Playing Speed The Plough (reel) on mandolin:

https://thesession.org/tunes/901

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgiB4Jmrvvg

Playing The Hag At The Churn (jig) on bouzouki:

https://thesession.org/tunes/829

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jzUUPgzaIU

Mr. Show’s pre-taped call-in show. Gets better every time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhVbLJvYP8s

Playing Tommy Peoples’ (reel) on mandolin:

https://thesession.org/tunes/192

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCDAgWP5Q5E

Yes! I can absolutely imagine writing a stylesheet where the only declarations inside media queries are updating custom properties.

Simultaneously nervous and excited as I put the first episode of the @Clearleft podcast live!

https://podcast.clearleft.com/season01/episode01/

It’s about design systems and features @LotteJackson, @PaulRobertLloyd, and @Amy_Hupe.

Playing The £42 Cheque (polka) on mandolin:

https://thesession.org/tunes/786

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWAq1YYR9Qw

Playing The Bank Of Turf (jig) on mandolin:

https://thesession.org/tunes/1819

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuYGGrdjGtY

Yay! Thank you, Sara!

I’ve been working on this for a while…

May I present …The Clearleft Podcast!

https://podcast.clearleft.com/

Subscribe today—the first episode drops later this week.

It’s going to be a bit different. Hope you like it!

Retweeted.

Did you see this article on A List Apart from last year? https://alistapart.com/article/accessibility-for-vestibular/

Playing Rakish Paddy (reel) on mandolin:

https://thesession.org/tunes/86

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akA0TrIAqn4

Sometimes, one egg is enough.

In France, one egg is un oeuf.

Playing Dunford’s Fancy (jig) by @SteveWickham on mandolin:

https://thesession.org/tunes/9759

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_yNyCfZgeE

Reading Superior: The Return of Race Science by Angela Saini.

Excellent idea—done!

https://adactio.com/feeds/subscriptions/

No, I have a bedroll (people who’ve stayed in my house), but I should really publish my OPML file somewhere.

’Sfunny, I just wrote a thing about machinery breaking down during lockdown:

The Machines Stop: https://adactio.com/journal/17089

Its beauty is unpresidented.

(Sorry. I’m sorry. I’m so sorry! …but do pass it on to @meetar; I think he’d be proud of me.)

Playing The Broken Pledge (reel) on bouzouki:

https://thesession.org/tunes/1423

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmRZKLsTVTs

A novel.

Strong same! 😢

Playing Patsy Geary’s (jig) on mandolin:

https://thesession.org/tunes/9076

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LizCXEb-dws

Thank you very much, Paul—that’s very kind of you.

It feels like everything is falling to pieces outside, but remember that fundamentally, most people are actually nice to each other and when people aren’t nice to each other, it’s generally out of fear and hurt.

—Dan Hon

Playing The Friendly Visit (hornpipe) on mandolin:

https://thesession.org/tunes/32

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1RK57ISXiE