Category: General

  • Old tabs: Part 4

    2024-07-26

    The fourth set of ten links as I close down my open tabs on my mobile. Games, keyboards, static PHP builds, and The Death of Twitter!!

  • Old tabs: Part 3

    2024-07-25

    The third set of ten links as I close down my open tabs on my mobile. Webcomics, business models, dev tools, and nerdy PHP and WordPress stuff.

  • Old tabs: Part 2

    2024-07-24

    The second set of ten links as I close down my open tabs on my mobile. CSS selectors, Go examples, lifestyle businesses and "The Worst Programmer I Know:.

  • Friction

    2024-07-09

    I want to talk (again) about friction. Things that slow us down. How some friction is good, and some is bad.

  • Lots of new things

    2024-07-07

    I haven’t written for a while. I haven’t been creative in many ways of late. Not the normal ways anyway. Most of my coding projects are stalled. I’ve not been doing much deeper thinking about things. So what have I been doing? Well, mainly, I’ve been: So yes, lots of change. I’ll keep this post […]

  • A manifesto for small, static, web apps

    2024-02-17

    I’m having a lot of fun building small, static web apps. And there are certain principles I’m trying to stick to as I do it. Let’s see what they are… What is a manifesto anyway? As I started writing this, I asked myself: “Is this actually a manifesto? What is a manifesto?” But the definition […]

  • Static databases for static sites. Possible?

    2024-02-15

    Regular readers will know about my love of simple, static-hosted, web-based apps that are easy to build and maintain, and free to host. But they are held back by the lack of dynamic data. Sure, you can store data in local storage, but what if you want to share data between browsers? Is there a […]

  • How are those new habits going?

    2024-02-04

    I was putting some new habits in place to try and bring more energy and discipline to 2024. How’s that all going? Previously, I explained how I wanted to start some new habits to make 2024-me better. The top habits – the easy ones with the most impact – were: But there were others that […]