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adactio

@adactio@mastodon.social

Mediocre middle-aged white man from Ireland living in Brighton, England working with Clearleft.

I play traditional Irish music on mandolin and I play slide bouzouki in the band Salter Cane.

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adactio, to random
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Going to Belfast. brb

🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/20337

Luke, to random
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Headed to Giant’s Causeway & Belfast. Send tips.

adactio,
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@Luke How long are you going to be in Belfast? I’m heading there tomorrow.

🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/20335

adactio,
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@Luke No, I’ll be playing traditional Irish music all next week: https://www.belfasttraditionalmusic.com/

🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/20336

adactio, to random
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Learning about our business plan from our business expert.

🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/20334

adactio, to random
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Working in the song mines.

🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/20333

A tape machine.
A mixing desk with rows and rows of dials and faders.
Chris wearing headphones and singing into a microphone and pop shield.

adactio, to random
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Setting up for the next three days in the studio with Salter Cane.

🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/20331

A bass guitar and an amp surrounded by foam cushions.
A drum kit on a carpet.
A bouzouki and amp, all mic’d up.

adactio, to random
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You know what day it is today, right?

Time to fire up the time machine:

https://apolloinrealtime.org/11/

It’s T minus 4 hours, 42 minutes to launch!

🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/20330

adactio, to random
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The syndicate

🔗 https://adactio.com/journal/20323

adactio, to random
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Permission

🔗 https://adactio.com/journal/20315

Edent, to random
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Long shot, but does anyone have an explainer to how the Elite procedural generation algorithm worked?

(I know the source code is available, but I'm looking for something a little more hand-holding than that.)

adactio,
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@Edent There's a chapter about it in the Francis Spufford book, Backroom Boys: The Secret Return of the British Boffin.

https://uk.bookshop.org/a/980/9780571214976

🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/20303

adactio, to random
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Listening to this album of cover versions that we (Salter Cane) recorded years ago—live in the studio with no overdubs—and thinking it sounds pretty damned good, actually!

https://soundcloud.com/saltercane/sets/joy

🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/20299

shustone, to random

@Meyerweb very random question: back in the day (2003) I followed you, stopdesign, mezzoblue and others for some extremely helpful CSS stuff and design inspiration. There was a website in that circle where the header was a cartoon picture of a farm that actively changed based on the live weather. Do you remember who's site that was? It's been driving me crazy. Thanks in advance for any input!

adactio,
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@Meyerweb That was Dunstan Orchard!

http://1976design.com/blog/

🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/20296

adactio,
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@adrian I love that this twenty-year old blog post is still available at its original URL …and that I can read the comments from @anildash, @daveshea, and @beep.

🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/20298

adactio, to random
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Talking about “web3” and “AI”

🔗 https://adactio.com/journal/20291

ben, to random
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What was the last fiction book you read and LOVED?

adactio,
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@ben Circe by Madeline Miller.

🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/20285

adactio, to random
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I just realised that Hanlon’s razor is like a memetic variation of the fundamental attribution error.

🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/20283

Brilliantcrank, to random
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Chicken is not a viable breakfast meat. Convince me otherwise.

adactio,
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@Luke Here’s a chaser for the shot:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/adactio/263512030/in/album-72157594317693606/

🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/20280

beep, (edited ) to random
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here’s a question for the users: what’s your favorite site you subscribe to? like, you get a little excited when it pops up in your newsfeed

(edited to add: share a link if you can!)

(One final edit to say I’m muting this now, but only because of volume: thank you so, so much to everyone who weighed in!)

adactio,
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@beep

Maggie Appleton https://maggieappleton.com

Winnie Lim https://winnielim.org

Ava Zeldman https://avazeldman.com

Piper Haywood https://piperhaywood.com

Ana Rodrigues https://ohhelloana.blog

Chris Coyier https://chriscoyier.net

🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/20277

Edent, to random
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Always good to find that someone has written a blog post saying "what you're trying to do is impossible."
https://adactio.com/journal/14408
Thanks @adactio!

adactio,
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@Edent Mind you, the browser makers told us that container queries were impossible, and they told us an ancestor selector (:has) was impossible, yet here we are!

It might be time to re-petition the CSS powers-that-be.

🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/20274

adactio, to random
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Button types

🔗 https://adactio.com/journal/20259

adactio, to random
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Reminder: if you’re using the Web Share API on a website, I’d love to hear your use case:

https://github.com/adactio/share-button-type/issues/1

🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/20260

jensimmons, to random
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Dear web developers & designers,

Now that you know what’s coming in Safari 17 — as well as what shipped in Safari 16.2-16.5 — what do you need in WebKit next?

Which web technology that’s already been standardized is highest priority? What brand new idea do you need invented?

adactio,
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@jensimmons View transitions, please!

🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/20246

adactio, to random
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So long and thanks for all the bitterballen!

Another excellent !

🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/20228

adactio, to random
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> Building a personal site is a radical act in 2023.

— @sophie CSS Day 2023

🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/20226

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Going to Amsterdam. brb

🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/20224

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