Creativity, curiosity, and code
So… I’m not diagnosed with any form of ADHD or ASD, but I do often feel like I’m not neurotypical. If I am then I’m very high-functioning, with enough coping strategies that you probably wouldn’t notice. But I have a pile of books about topics like this ready to go. Jesse J Anderson is what […]
[Contains mild spoilers] I’m not sure how I came across Blake Crouch. Probably recommended by the Kobo algorithm. Or his book was in a sale and sounded cool. I remember downloading a free preview of “Dark Matter” and reading it and thinking it was good. Anyhow, I ended up reading “Recursion” first. “A compulsive, breathtaking […]
I’m a big fan of using RSS and I’ve loved the iOS and MacOs Reeder app for years. Recently a new version of Reeder came out that’s in many ways different, but in many ways similar. I immediately tried it out as Reeder is so good and I use it a lot. I was keen […]
I actually finished this a good while ago. I’d heard a lot about Brandon Sanderson, and – as is my probably-not-very-ethical-really way – I saw The Book of Kings on offer on Kobo and bought it to see if I could get into it. And WHAT a book. I mean, it’s epic. Literally. It’s huge. […]
All the things you need to know about electric cars, written down as succinctly as I can (which isn’t very). Note that this is UK/EU specific and excludes and proprietary stuff (e.g. Tesla-specific tech) Units of power and battery sizes You will see the following units of power/energy/battery capacity: Examples: How big should my battery […]
There’s a sort-of-joke that there’s a bunch of things that all developers are supposed to code from scratch at some point in their career. A blog. A to-do list app. The “canonical” applications. And one of these is a static site generator. I’ve actually never built any of these things from scratch. But while making […]
Some things I learned on my first in-depth WooCommerce build. Including how to do JavaScript logic on elements in the cart/price totals on the checkout page.
For experienced Laravel developers, version 8 and Jetstream are really exciting. But as someone who wants to introduce people to Laravel as a way to build cool stuff, I really feel like there are some issues here.
WordPress developers: Today I’m opening sign ups to a newsletter I’ll be starting soon called Beyond WP. It will be a resource that brings developer tools and ideas from outside the WordPress ecosystem to WordPress developers.