Creativity, curiosity, and code
You probably thought I was a bit funny. I mean, you were the adult man on the pink, three-wheeled Barbie scooter, but *you* probably wondered what *I* was doing. I was in my car. I saw you from afar and had resolved to cheer you on. At first I wasn’t sure if you were a […]
I finally feel like I’m getting to grips with Laravel’s service container. I’ve understood HOW it works and WHAT is does for a while, but it’s taken a simple, real-world example to pull it all together and make it all “stick”. Disclaimer: I may still have all this wrong, in which case correct me in […]
Building a niche social network seems like an exciting prospect at first, but it only takes a little thought to realise that it's a bad idea.
This year's event was supremely well-run, full of quality content, and just what I needed as I head into a busy-looking year. Thank you to all involved.
Quite pleased with my first Lego stop-frame animation!
I'm speaking again at this year's WordCamp London. Find out more about my talk on screencasts for user training.
I don’t know JS So I’ve kinda got stuck in to learning JavaScript. I’ve previously said that I think JavaScript is like the assembler of the web: coding in vanilla JS isn’t really something you should do because it’s too easy to get things wrong, so you should have a layer of abstraction on top. […]
2016 was a year of transition. 2017? Well, it's started out with acceptance of things that must be.
Yes, it’s the third of January and I’m writing a blog post so you’d be quite entitled to think that I’ve started some new year’s resolution to write more and am already three two days behind. And, well, that’s not strictly true, but it is partly true. What I have been doing is putting together […]