Category: General

  • WordlePress and nerding out about WordPress function names

    2022-03-27

    Given all the “Wordle” hype these days, I think I was one of the first (of many) people to wonder about what “WordlePress” might look like: Not long after, Taco Verdo did buy the domain, with the aim of preserving it for the good of the WordPress community. Then, one bored weekend, I came up […]

  • Hang on, PHP IS a static site generator!

    2021-12-18

    Regular followers will have heard me talk about Turbo Admin. And you may also know that I am, where possible, trying to #DitchTheBuild and use vanilla HTML, CSS and JS as much as possible. So for the Turbo Admin website I kinda wanted to embrace this philosophy, get cheap-and-easy, static-file hosting, and make my build […]

  • Sunday morning links

    2021-05-02

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

  • Apple M1/Apple Silicon Day 1 LIVE

    2020-11-17

    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

    2020-07-12

    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”

    2020-05-18

    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

    2020-01-23

    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

    2020-01-03

    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.