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  • My Twitter Rules

    2021-10-30

    I recently saw a Tweet by a runner called Peter Sagal who outlined his “Rules of Twitter”. In response to narrowly spread demand, here are my Rules of Twitter. Note that each was learned by violating it repeatedly over the years, so don’t bother going back in my feed to find contradictions… trust me, I […]

  • The Electric Car Idea

    2021-10-23

    A revelation! Is the thing that stopping us thinking seriously about owning an electric car not, actually, a thing?

  • 10 things I learned about freelancing in ten years (with ten days to go) – Part 2

    2021-08-07

    More thing's I've learned from 10 years of freelancing.

  • 10 things I learned about freelancing in ten years (with ten days to go) – Part 1

    2021-08-07

    I stop being a freelancer soon. Here are some things I learned in the last ten years.

  • Turbo Admin! The command palette for (almost) ALL your WordPress sites

    2021-06-27

    The Turbo Admin browser extension give you a fast-action command palette for all your WordPress sites without needing to install a plugin.

  • PHP Short Functions and Scope

    2021-06-02

    Yesterday I took an interest in PHP internals looking into @enunomaduro‘s RFC for Auto-capturing multi-statement closures. (Have I said before that I loved studying compilers in CS?) This lead me down some interesting rabbit holes and I wanted to make some notes on what I found. Short vs Long closures There are a two forms […]

  • Browser Extensions: Self-hosted updates

    2021-05-31

    I’m currently developing a paid-for browser extension that will run on both Firefox and Chrome/Chromium browsers. I’ll write more about this (very-involved!) process soon. But in the last couple of days, I just made the decision to self-host updates for the Firefox version rather than host it on addons.mozilla.org. This post details the steps to […]

  • Tech Notes: Laravel hasOneThrough / belongsToThrough confusion

    2021-05-27

    How I found out that I wanted belongsToThrough, not hasOneThrough in Laravel Eloquent, and why it doesn't exist.

  • Sunday morning links

    2021-05-02

    A bunch of links I've added to my pinboard including tech, WordPress, Laravel, family, and creativity.

  • We need a common visual language for block editing

    2021-04-18

    Blocks are a new paradigm. They need complex new user interfaces. And we don't have a common visual language for them.

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