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Friday, June 5th, 2026

Me on stage in a loud red paisley shirtt with a microphone in one and a clipboard in the other. Four passengers on the mocked-up London bus that reads: I heart UX London. I'm one of the faces poking out; we've all got beer bottles in our hands. Nine other Clearlefties and me, all lined up for a group photo; everyone's wearing black Clearleft T-shirts except for me in my blue denim shirt.

I had a thoroughly enjoyable three days of hosting UX London this week and met such lovely people at the event—thank you to everyone who came!

Saturday, May 23rd, 2026

Me posing like a chef outside the Irish Embassy in front of the Irish language sign. Me in a short-sleeved shirt a pint of Guinness on the roof of the Devonshire.

Londoning

Friday, May 22nd, 2026

Me dressed in a summery shirt posing next to a screenshot of The Session behind glass. The label reads: The Session, digital print, with permission from Jeremy Keith, The Session.

At the Royal College of Music Museum, where the new exhibit features thesession.org!

Monday, May 11th, 2026

WebKit Features for Safari 26.5 | WebKit

Fixed an issue on iOS and iPadOS where datalist suggestions were presented directly over the associated input, obscuring it.

Phew!

Sunday, April 19th, 2026

A row of fiddlers playing in a pub. An accordion player and two fiddlers playing in a row.

Sunday session

Monday, April 6th, 2026

Close up of Chris singing and playing guitar with me rocking out on bouzouki. We're both wearing sharp-looking suits. Salter Cane on stage: the guitar player is front and centre, flanked on one side by me on bouzouki, and on the other by Jessica on bass.

Thanks to everyone who came out to the Salter Cane gig on Saturday night—that was fun!

Sunday, March 15th, 2026

A man on bodhrán and another man on banjo. Two women playing fiddle in a pub.

Sunday afternoon session

Wednesday, February 25th, 2026

A man playing fiddle while a woman fiddler listens and smiles. A flute player and a piper.

Birthday session

Monday, February 2nd, 2026

A bowl of mussels topped with some bread. A half dozen oysters, straight up.

Carlingford mussels and oysters

Wednesday, January 21st, 2026

A man playing banjo, lost in the music. A woman playing fiddle, lost in the music.

Wednesday session

Sunday, January 18th, 2026

The datalist element on iOS 26

The datalist element is all fucked up on iOS. Again.

I haven’t “upgraded” my iPhone to iOS 26 and I have no plans to. The whole Liquid Glass thing is literally offputting. So I wouldn’t have known about the latest regression in Safari if a friend hadn’t texted me about the problem.

He was trying to do a search on The Session. He was looking for the tune, The Road To Town. He started typing this into the form on the home page of the site. He got as far as “The Road To”. That’s when the entire input was obscured by a suggestion from the associated datalist.

A screenshot of The Session on an iPhone during a search on the homepage. The search input is completely obscured by the text: The Road To Lisdoonvarna.

This is incredibly annoying and seems to be a pattern of behaviour for Safari. Features are supported …technically. But the implementation is so buggy as to be unusable.

I’ll probably have to do some user-agent sniffing, which I hate. And it won’t be enough to just sniff for Safari on iOS 26. Remember that every browser on iOS is just Webkit in a trenchcoat.

Time to file a bug and then wait God knows how long for an update to get rolled out.

Update: I filed a bug, but in the meantime it looks like user-agent sniffing is going to be impossible.

Friday, January 16th, 2026

Two fiddlers, a man playing and a woman listening. A woman playing fiddle and a man playing banjo.

Rob’s farewell session

Saturday, January 3rd, 2026

Three fiddlers. Flute and two fiddles. Fiddle and two concertinas. Guitar, flute, fiddle, and another flute.

Playing tunes in a kitchen on a Saturday night.

Thursday, January 1st, 2026

A modern hand-crafted oval-hole mandolin made in Australia. A classic bowl-backed mandolin from eastern Europe. A red wall covered with Italian bowl-backed mandolins of different sizes. A classic F-5 mandolin from Gibson with its distinctive scroll.

More mandolins

Wednesday, December 31st, 2025

A mandolina from Lviv hanging up against a yellow background. A beautiful mandolin from Naples made in 1764 hanging up against a red background. A style 4 mandolin from 1903 hanging up against a blue background. A black 10 string F-4 mandolin hanging up against a grey background.

Found myself unexpectedly with a day to spend in Phoenix, so I went to the excellent Musical Instruments Museum and ogled the mandolins.

Saturday, December 27th, 2025

Scaffolding and paint tins in front of a wall being painted with a mural of clouds. Graffitti on a wall above a pipe that reads: Make America Doubleplusgood Again.

Painting heaven and hell

Monday, December 22nd, 2025

The silhouette of a mountain range on the horizon at dusk. Green cactus pads against a pure blue sky.

Arizona

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2025

Fiddle, flute, and mandolin in a cosy pub. Guitar, flute, and fiddle players at a pub table.

Tuesday session

Thursday, November 13th, 2025

A handsome fluffy tabby cat outdoors. Profile of a handsome fluffy tabby cat outdoors.

Hanging out with Coco.

Wednesday, September 24th, 2025

Bowls of broth. A platter of chickpeas with pork fat and potatoes. Many different meats on two different plates. A table covered with the many courses of cocido; chickpeas, a jar of broth, and plates piled with meats.

Had cocido for lunch in Madrid yesterday and I’m still full today.