Creativity, curiosity, and code
Gosh – no week notes since February! Partly this is because I wanted to automate the “Pins” part of making weeknotes, because it was a right bind to do manually, but also I just dropped the ball. But I love my weeknotes, they’re useful for me if no one else, and I’m keen to get […]
Technology presents so many opportunities for people to get involved in making public services data. And there are probably challenges too. If only the information was open!! Recycling data Our council here in Swindon recently changed the recycling rules. To inform people they produced a leaflet explaining which materials should go in which boxes. Now, […]
I hate my own business website. I built it quickly with a page builder. Like this site it’s kinda deliberately minimalist because I’m not a designer, and yes, it’s better than previous iterations. But there’s so much I don’t like about it. And I’m working, behind the scenes, with Statamic, trying to get to a […]
Note to self: this is why you should, and how you can customise form validation error messages in Laravel - even when using form requests
I’m SURE I must have done this before. Like…so many times. But this felt new today and is definitely worth remembering. When you’re using forms in Laravel, you sometimes want a “cancel” or “back” button or link that takes you to where you were before. And Laravel provides a handy url() helper that gets a […]
How to specify a specific policy/class when authorizing using the controller helper function in Laravel.
I’m speaking at WordCamp London on Sunday. And I ALWAYS learn something new when public speaking. I’ve been chatting with other speakers in the Speaker’s Slack Channel and I popped in and asked for tips: Who has super speaker tips? Assume nothing. I want all the basics. I gave a couple of my own for […]
A quick write-up of how I built the government petition tracker that I made and how it's performed over the last 24 hours of being quite a lot busier than normal.
Your definitive list of "Revoke Article 50" government petition resources.
Years in the thinking, not very long in the making, here's the What?, Why? and How? of my extra-geeky, new look website.