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  • Refactoring UI

    2018-12-13

    I love this kit. It's expensive, but it's an amazing tool for me. But it does also feel lacking/incomplete in its current form.

  • Statamic: First impressions

    2018-11-22

    While the confusion over the launch of WordPress’s new “Gutenberg” editor continues, I’ve been considering some other options. As someone who also works in the Laravel world, Statamic is making a pretty big blip on my radar. It’s a content management system that ‘runs on a “flat file” engine based on Markdown and YAML files’. […]

  • Beat the Street – tinkering with a virtual version of the game

    2018-09-29

    In Swindon at the moment there is this brilliant “game” called “Beat the Street” intended to get people out and about and walking and cycling. They have put more than 170 boxes around the town, strapped to lampposts, and they have given out thousands of fobs and cards. The way the “game” works is that […]

  • The week: 24th September 2018

    2018-09-24

    A summary of my week in projects, posts, and pins. This is probably as much for my benefit as anything, but let me know if you find it interesting or helpful. Use the comments – I’m happy to tweak the format to make it more useful for others. Projects: what I’ve been up to This […]

  • Helpful IT notice: emails with your password in!

    2018-09-21

    Yesterday I looked in the spam box in my email account, and found that there were some messages in there that had an old, out-of-date password in the subject line. These were quite scary-looking messages trying to blackmail me. But the presence of an actual password that I used to use made them seem very […]