I almost missed this well-camouflaged animal next to my house

My toddler loves the book Room on the Broom and the song The Parting Glass, so we’ve ended up with this mashup situation.

Thanks for showing up for the replay Homer! Everybody else, this is what I do when I am not playing guitar on the couch. Pls mainly think of me as rare-guitar-couch-guy but yes also if you have Cypress tests I’m here to go way over on calls with you about accessibility.

In progress: "Crow", pencil crayon/graphite on watercolour paper, 9x12" #art #wip #birds

Morning guitar noodle that successfully entertained the cat

I should mention this is an instrumental acoustic bass ukulele cover of Mad World by Gary Jules, so that it’s truly gonna find its niche.

The bass ukulele rides again.

I should be reading this more

Goodnight nerds

The before bed couch guitar’s back! This is how I (somewhat) play Raglan Road

. moment in the afternoon .

Really enjoy all of these @corwijtman.bsky.social

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Spilled coffee on Starship controls And now We’re lost in space I made us miss The wormhole #jump Which froze us All in place Think Captain Is unhappy— He is screaming In my face And he’s Gone scream forever Cuz for us Time hit the brakes. #vss365

Ana’s always doing the coolest CSS things

Small break noodling on Butch Ross’s arrangement of the moonshiner

The view from Lansdown - Tom Davey , 2025 .

Ahhh VueConf being in Atlanta will be great!

One again, late night couch music

Todd and Paula are great people, and fighting with health insurance is awful. If you see this and you can help them out, please do

I wrote something at work about writing automated tests for the new ARIA Notify API, ended up being a bit of a tour of various Cypress commands and things you can do. Thanks for the shout-out @frontenddogma.com!

This is (kind of) Bristlecone Pine? I’ve also gotten pretty close to having a dedicated music noodling corner.

Interrupting whatever to bring you some bass ukulele from the couch

I just backed Pat Ingoldsby - 20 years of Dublin street life in poems on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/pat...

I like this one a lot

For #SealeyChallenge /1 book a day #Day1 Re-issue of Canadian poet Erin Moure's Pillage Laud @bookhugpress.bsky.social (experimental computer generated prompts circa 1998 meet queer eros poetics.) Wrestling intimate meaning from structural systems. #gaza fundraise @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social

I’m glad you can still get poems in the post

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Thrilled to see Back to Alabama out in the world!

Just finished this signed book of poems by @valeriesmithpoetry.bsky.social that I got from my wife the other week. It’s fantastic and creative and I feel like every poem is just right. I love how many different kinds of poetry are in this one book.

This talk is too hot and is already out of date a bit: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS7L...

Soupy Friday

Very sad news tonight about Paul Durcan RIP. A great loss to Irish poetry. Here’s an old interview I did with him from the 90s.

We’re trying a rather radical new approach at Piccalilli by doing real world projects — for real clients — in the open. This gives us a context to provide genuine high quality, real world education for free at the point of entry.

I follow a lot of people on here who post poetry or programming images without alt text and it quietly reduces your impact in ways you might not be aware of, since many people have a preference for interacting with accessible content even if they don’t “need” it.

Just gonna leave this here...

Wayfaring Stranger in the style of a budget airline - which is to say, there is an unnecessary delay. #tonewoodamp2

A great way to photograph a cat is to line it up between the ears of another cat

I’m quite liking the vaguely spooky sounds of the Tonewood amp

Last week I recorded a podcast!

It’s gotta draw you in with the dramatic tension and stakes, ppl will read the middle third of a resume if you come across as troubled yet brilliant, a talented programmer torn between the old job of past and the new job of future, will u make the leap? Yes for a $20k salary bump. Also u do React.

My wife Lauren is the author of this DELIGHTFUL picture book that you can now get in all the places you get books. It’s a lovely story, and as you can see in this link, Susan’s illustrations are amazing.

They stayed close because they knew I’d be reading poems about cats & this pleases them.

Appropriate for the day that’s in it

Woke to read about Pat Ingoldsby’s death today. Like a lot of us, I had a few chats with Pat on the street as he was selling books of poems over the years. The chats and the poems both made a big impression on me. RIP

RIP Pat Ingoldsby a much loved poet. Connected with people of all ages. Probably the first real life poet many of us saw as kids on TV or on the streets of Dublin selling his poetry collections.

Good list! I’d add Open Hand Atlanta, it has volunteer roles for packing meals but also can always use drivers to deliver them, even if you only have occasional availability.