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  • Cartooning

    2018-08-21

    I’m rubbish at drawing. Not just bad; positively terrible. It’s actually properly difficult to tell the difference between my young son’s drawings and my own. But I do find some kinds of drawing fun. I tried to get into sketching for a while (and will have a go again sometime, I’m sure). Today, I took […]

  • What I do

    2018-08-18

    Further to writing about “Creating and Consuming”, I’ve been thinking about how some of the people I find most interesting on social networks are people who actually talk and write about what THEY are doing rather then repeating things that OTHERS are doing. So often we learn things small and large, technical and social, through […]

  • Creating and Consuming

    2018-08-18

    I find that there is a constant tension in my life, and I think particularly in my industry – working on the web – between creating content and consuming content. I always feel like I SHOULD create more content. But it’s hard because the content I consume always make my content feel low value, not […]

  • About SchoolBot

    2018-08-15

    I am NOT getting involved in school communications…but… I have school children now. And I kinda made a vow to not get involved in school communications. Mostly because the primary job of school staff is educating and caring for children to do, and they don’t want some geeky parent turning up with bright ideas that […]

  • Quotes on Intuition, Spirit and Creativity

    2018-06-27

    Regular readers/followers will have heard me talk about Rob Bell’s podcast before – take him with a pinch of salt. And these notes are from an interview he did with two other people who I think you should take with a pinch of salt. BUT…I’m intrigued by different forms of spirituality at the moment. These […]

  • On balance of creativity and passivity with kids and screentime

    2018-06-27

    This is from a great episode of the ChangeLog podcast that interviews Tim Bell, the founder and creator of CS Unplugged: a collection of free teaching material that teaches computer science through engaging games and puzzles. I struggle with how much screentime our kids have. Perhaps this quote will inspire is to do more creative things […]

  • Adding a “delete” link to a Vue component representing a Laravel model

    2018-06-14

    This very much falls into the category of “things that must surely be easier”. So let me know in the comments if it is actually easier. Here’s the thing, I’m tinkering with Vue and Laravel. I have a Vue component that represents a Laravel model object. I note that the component has a hierarchy of […]

  • Gardening, baking, connecting

    2018-05-21

    This comes with all my usual Rob Bell caveats – make of him what you will, because I’m not even sure myself – but I was listening to this interview about food, ecology, the earth, soil, people, education and being alive while making sourdough. It’s fascinating and inspiring. It made me glad that I have […]