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Wednesday, June 10th, 2026

Bicycles on a bridge over a tree-lined canal under a blue sky with greyish white clouds.

Strolling through Amsterdam.

Tuesday, June 9th, 2026

Going to Amsterdam. brb

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2026

25 years of The Session

The Session existed in a very basic form since the late 1990s. It was just me posting a different tune every week.

But The Session as it is today—a community website where everyone can add tunes—first went online on June 3rd, 2001. That’s 25 years ago today.

Considering the typical lifespan of a web page, I’m proud of having a website still online and thriving a quarter of a century after launching it.

At this point it’s fair to say that thesession.org is my life’s work. Though, really, I’m just the curator; the site would literally be nothing without all the contributions that people have made to it.

It’s been a great 25 years so far, and I’m looking forward to the next 25.

Saturday, May 23rd, 2026

Three women playing fiddle and one woman playing flute in a pub.

Saturday session in London.

Sunday, May 17th, 2026

A man playing fiddle while another fiddler listens.

Sunday session

Friday, May 15th, 2026

A screenshot of two consecutive posts on Mastodon. The first, from Toby, is in Irish and reads “Chonaic muid scannán darb ainm Trad. Bhí sé suimiúil, tá giota beag Gaeilge ann fosta!” The second, from Paul Campbell, says “Blogged! This time about my renewed interest in the Irish language and how Tito is doing its small part to participate in and encourage the Irish language revival”

Is breá leat é a fheiceáil.

Friday, April 17th, 2026

Reading Gideon The Ninth by Tamsyn Muir.

Buy this book

Wednesday, April 15th, 2026

A man with a bodhrán, a woman playing button accordion, and another woman playing fiddle all in a row at a pub table.

Wednesday session

Friday, April 10th, 2026

I know a young student in Germany who needs to learn about relevance of the Entscheidungsproblem and Alan Turing to today’s work in computation—who should I put them in touch with?

Tuesday, March 31st, 2026

A fluffy tabby cat curled up asleep on the sofa.

Coco’s napping

Thursday, March 19th, 2026

A man playing pipes next a woman playing fiddle in a pub.

Thursday session

Wednesday, March 18th, 2026

These assholes https://www.openui.com/ did not do any due diligence before choosing a name.

The only Open UI that counts is https://open-ui.org/

Tuesday, March 17th, 2026

Three young girls dancing in unison in a busy pub.

Interlude with dancers

Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona daoibh, a chairde!

Monday, March 16th, 2026

Just heard the sad news of Dolores Keane’s passing.

Ar dheis Dé go raibh a hanam.

Sunday, March 15th, 2026

A man looking right at the camera playing the button accordion with a fiddle on the table in front of him.

Sunday evening session

Thursday, March 12th, 2026

A group photo of everyone smiling in the green room.

What a fantastic bunch of speakers! Thank you all for making #WebDayOut so great!

Wednesday, February 18th, 2026

Looking forward to going to State Of The Browser in ten days.

I spoke at it eight years ago and I still like what I said then:

https://adactio.com/articles/14321

Sunday, February 15th, 2026

A group of musicians in a semi-circle around pub tables; mostly fiddlers with a banjo and bouzouki too.

Sunday session

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