Blog

  • (Developer) Tools talk

    2017-11-09

    Last night I gave a talk at the Cheltenham WordPress Meetup on the amazing toolkit called "(Developer) Tools" in your web browser. The group is very mixed in terms of technical ability so this was a great topic, and I put "Developer" in brackets because there's something in Developer Tools for all website creators, regardless of […]

  • Who’s under R2D2?

    2017-11-07

    How do you get from "Who's under R2D2?" to voice dubbing in iMovie? And why does nothing ever get done in our house?!

  • Doodles

    2017-10-03

    I’m very much NOT a visually creative person, but today have found myself doodling/sketching for a little project! The iPad is very forgiving and seems to add a flourish!

  • Sublime to PHPStorm and Back: A coder’s text editor journey

    2017-09-01

    Coding News: I swapped my super-duper IDE for a less-functional text editor – you’ll never guess what happened next! Actually, it was a really good exercise, and here’s why. I was chatting with my friend Keiron today about text editors. I recently followed him in transitioning from Sublime Text to PHPStorm. But I explained to […]

  • Unicoding

    2017-07-31

    I really really can’t tell you how very proud I am that my son made this for me. ❤️❤️❤️????It says: "82 111 115 115 (Ross)". He wrote Unicode!

  • Typical supper-time learnings: Will It Fly?

    2017-07-30

    A typical conversation over an evening bowl of porridge in the Wintle household. This is how a) one of our children learns random stuff and b) Bedtime takes FOREVER.

  • Parenting Jenga

    2017-07-18

    Parenting Jenga: a visual note about what life is like sometime