• Sunday morning links

    A bunch of links I've added to my pinboard including tech, WordPress, Laravel, family, and creativity.

  • Apple M1/Apple Silicon Day 1 LIVE

    Follow up – day 3! So, overall I’m pretty happy with the 8GB M1 Air. Outstanding issues I have are: ScreenFlow and some Rogue Amoeba audio apps don’t work – I guess these are doing some clever low-level stuff. I’m having issues importing my MySQL databases from backup. This is not really an M1 specific […]

  • LiveStreams: Discovering Gutenberg

    I'm live-streaming reviewing Gutenberg block-editor plugin releases and exploring new block editor features. Here's some info and thoughts on that.

  • What is “kindness”

    This week is Mental Health Awareness Week and the topic is "Kindness". In one online community I hang out in the question has been asked: "What does kindness mean to you?" I thought my answer was worth posting here in public. So...

  • Stepping up the security ladder

    Security - not just on computers, but in other places too - is a trade-off of convenience for safety. Which internet security level are you on? And what could you do to get to the next level?

  • Freelance Routines

    My answer to the question “how do you fit everything in?” that’s often asked by family-focussed freelancers. Hopefully some useful tips for others.

  • Celebrating sensitivity

    People with a high attention to detail or years of experience may seem to be negative, disruptive, “no-go”’people that stand in the way of progress and disrupt innovation. But have super powers and you should celebrate them.

  • The Weeks: 14th and 21st October

    I’m still way behind with weeknotes – partly I’m still dealing with the fallout of some big emergency hosting and support stuff that came in, but also I’ve been ill with a cold that went on for WEEKS, and both my kids had a sickness bug. Sometimes, life just gets in the way of creativity. […]