Creativity, curiosity, and code
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.
Last week was half term holidays, made all the more interesting by my car’s drive-shaft breaking! Eeek! But I had two GREAT days of work in there and exciting things are happening – I even submitted a talk to WordCamp London and will await a response to that nervously. Projects: what I’ve been up to […]
My week in projects, posts and pages
Well, phew! The snow melted quickly and we got straight into the first week of the new routine. Though it turns out there is no such thing as a “normal” week in our family. Work-wise some small projects have been nudged along and I’ve had interesting conversations about some new ones. Projects: what I’ve been […]
I'm attempting to build a WordPress theme with no build tool using only "vanilla" CSS and JS. Here's some initial thoughts I've had after getting started.