• Thoughts on AMP

    Some un-structured thoughts on Google's (AMP) project and Facebook's Instant Articles and how they might affect small publishers.

  • Pre-schooler tip

    Pre-schooler tip: Turn your parent into a blubbing wreck by writing their name inside a heart on your doodle board.

  • What will WordPress be?

    Change is upon us! If you work with WordPress, that is. I won’t go into details on the WordPress REST API that’s going to be a part of the software soon, or of “Calypso” which is a new tool forĀ edit content and managing WordPress sites (both wordpress.com and self-hosted wordpress.org) that uses an API (or […]

  • Bombs

    I tend not to comment quickly on things. I like to think. And, actually, quite often I don’t have time enough to think. I was travelling today. Travel time is good. It’s restful and gives me time to think. And I was catching up with my Twitter timeline from last night. The night that our […]

  • Not so rapid application development

    I recently re-launched hasyourbabyarrivedyet.com, my super, super simple birth announcement service. I’ve rewritten it in Laravel: a PHP-based rapid application development framework. And one thing I learned is that launching even a super, super simple web application in public is a far from rapid process. Hasyourbabyarrivedyet.com is basically a big red button that changes the […]

  • Sketching: a history of art

    I've decided to try and learn to sketch. I'm going to tell you why and to describe my thoughts as I go. Here's some history and an introduction.

  • Letting go – a parenting revelation

    I don’t write much about parenting and Isaac. This isn’t a parenting blog. But something has happened recently which has been quite monumental and I think it’s worth writing about. Background There’s a bit of background needed here. The first thing is that we’ve taken an approach to parenting that fits a lot of the […]