Note archive: August, 2025

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Thursday, August 28th, 2025

A man playing flute, a woman playing concertina, a man playing tin whistle, and a man playing guitar in the corner of a pub. — Thursday session

A screenshot of an accessibility auditing tool showing a score of 100% …even though we all know that you've got to manually test stuff. — Accessibility, performance, privacy, security, sustainability …some of the things I value more than “developer experience” when I’m working on thesession.org

A screenshot of PageSpeed Insights showing scores of 100 across the board for performance, accessibility, best practices, and SEO. — Accessibility, performance, privacy, security, sustainability …some of the things I value more than “developer experience” when I’m working on thesession.org

Thursday, August 21st, 2025

A man playing Greek bouzouki accompanying another man playing tin whistle at a pub table with a whistle hanging from it. — Thursday session

Thursday session

Wednesday, August 20th, 2025

A woman playing fiddle and a man playing accordion at a pub table with a fiddle on it and a banjo resting nearby. — Wednesday session

Tuesday, August 19th, 2025

A row of three men fiddling in a pub. — Monday session

Monday, August 18th, 2025

Did a live server migration over the weekend, switching over DNS like…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gU35Tgtlmg

Raiders Of The Lost Ark : Swipe Idol Scene

Tuesday, August 12th, 2025

I just found out that Stephanie “Steve” Shirley passed away.

She was an absolute hero to me.

Monday, August 11th, 2025

A banjo player and an accordion player at a table with a fiddle on it. — Monday session

Saturday, August 9th, 2025

Reading Bee Speaker by Adrian Tchaikovsky.

Float like a bee, sting like a butterfly.

Friday, August 8th, 2025

The last of the Apollo 8 crew is gone.

I’m somewhat obsessed with CMAT’s Euro Country. An opening verse in Irish and a blistering bridge that might single-handedly scupper Bertie Ahern’s presidential ambitions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SVNTv44C4g

Thursday, August 7th, 2025

A man playing banjo, a man playing uilleann pipes and a woman playing fiddle all in a row at a pub table. — Thursday session

Wednesday, August 6th, 2025

A woman playing fiddle and a man playing accordion at a table in the corner of a pub. — Wednesday session

Tuesday, August 5th, 2025

A crowd of fiddlers behind a piper. — Tuesday session

Monday, August 4th, 2025

Concertina, flute and guitar. — Monday session

Banjos, box and fiddle.. — Monday session

A line of three women playing fiddle and me playing mandolin. — Ceol sa cultúrlann i mBéal Féirste

Saturday, August 2nd, 2025

Men playing fiddles and flutes and a woman playing bodhrán. — Saturday afternoon session in Belfast

Mé seanding on the street pointing over my shoulder at a red brick building behind me. — Táim i gaeltacht Bhéal Feirste!

A woman playing pipes, a woman playing flute, and a man playing bouzouki at a café table under a sign saying “fáilte.” — Saturday morning session in Belfast

Friday, August 1st, 2025

Flute, fiddle and bouzouki leading a session. — Friday afternoon session in Belfast