The Session

This was originally posted on my own site. Gerry talks about “top tasks” a lot. He literally [wrote the book]https://gerrymcgovern.com/books/top-tasks-a-how-to-guide/) on it: Top tasks are what matter most to your customers. Seems pretty obvious, right? But it’s actually pretty rare to see top tasks presented any differently than other options. …

This was originally posted on my own site. I don’t know about you, but it seems like everyone I follow on Twitter is playing Wordle. Although I don’t play the game myself, I think it’s pretty great. Not only does Wordle have a very sweet backstory, but it’s also unashamedly…

This was originally posted on my own site. On June 3rd, 2001, I launched thesession.org. Happy twentieth birthday to The Session! Although actually The Session predates its domain name by a few years. It originally launched as a subdirectory here on adactio.com with the unwieldly URL /session/session.shtml That incarnation was…

This was originally posted on my own site. I told you about how I’m using the Web Audio API on The Session to generate synthesised audio of each tune setting. I also said: Except for some weirdness on iOS that I had to fix. Here’s that weirdness… Let me start…

This was originally posted on my own site. I spent the last couple of weekends rolling out a new feature on The Session. It involves playing audio in a web page. No big deal these days, right? But the history involves some old file formats… The first venerable format is…

This was originally posted on my own site. Probably fewer than a hundred people in the world have seen what you’re looking at right now. Jessica and I were taking turns at the microscope when we were told that. Let me back up a bit and explain how we found…

This was originally posted on my own site. I don’t talk that much on here about my life’s work. Contrary to appearances, my life’s work is not banging on about semantic markup, progressive enhancement, and service workers. No, my life’s work is connected to Irish traditional music. Not as a…

The Session This was my first time attending The Session and I had a fantastic day meeting magic friends old and new. Whilst attending just the Saturday of the three day event, I managed to catch most of the talks in between some jams and chats with fellow magi.