Category: General

  • High standards, low expectations

    2024-01-05

    This phrase has been a huge change of mindset for me. Really transformative. And I'm much happier. Here's what I mean.

  • New Clothes!

    2024-01-04

    I don't buy many clothes. I don't like buying clothes. But I needed to buy clothes. And so I bought clothes. And it was fun!!

  • 2024, self-improvement, and habits

    2023-12-31

    I'm not a big end-of-year/start-of-year post guy. But 2023 did become rather chaotic, and I want to start 2024 with some energy and discipline. So... how?

  • WordPress REST API with a Laravel Zero CLI and Tinkerwell

    2023-12-06

    Today I decided to start work on a silly new thing. It will involve CLI commands, so I went for Laravel Zero. I needed to use the WordPress REST API. I figured someone must have written a Laravel HTTP client wrapper for this and Rick West delivered for me there! But then I wanted to […]

  • My simple EV terminology cheatsheet

    2023-06-17

    All the things you need to know about electric cars, written down as succinctly as I can (which isn’t very). Note that this is UK/EU specific and excludes and proprietary stuff (e.g. Tesla-specific tech) Units of power and battery sizes You will see the following units of power/energy/battery capacity: Examples: How big should my battery […]

  • Eeek! What does Gutenberg Phase 3 mean for Turbo Admin

    2023-03-25

    Turbo Admin features to be in WordPress core! 🙌 The WordPress Gutenberg Phase 3 announcement is very interesting for me. Why? Because it will be disruptive for my Turbo Admin plugin/browser extension. An admin redesign is in the works which, especially if done in React, may make Turbo Admin impossible to run. Fortunately they are also considering […]

  • The New Turbo Admin

    2022-12-17

    Turbo Admin 1.12.0 is a big release with better search, improved reliability, user and plugins search and integrations for WooCommerce and Gravity Forms. Phew!

  • On strikes and taxes

    2022-12-15

    Nurses, postal workers, train drivers, border force, paramedics: you have my support.

  • WordlePress – a silly (and very difficult) game for WordPress developers

    2022-11-27

    Announcing (or re-announcing) WordlePress: a silly function-name guessing game for WordPress developers (and anyone else stupid enough to try). This post serves as the help page/instructions for WordlePress until I get some proper help up on the actual WordlePress site. Earlier this year, the daily Wordle puzzle was all the rage. And early on I […]