Category: General

  • Remembering your promises

    2018-09-01

    Weddings can be reminders of what practical, sacrificial, unconditional love is like. I can’t help but feel that that’s something the world needs more of right now.

  • On behalf of…

    2018-08-31

    I’ve been contributing to some discussions that have been happening this week about the new WordPress “Gutenberg” editor. Hopefully constructively. And I think its useful to note where I come from when thinking about Gutenberg. Firstly, there’s my own context. Mostly as a user of WordPress (I’m using it right now!) but also as a […]

  • What I (actually) do!

    2018-08-25

    The other day I wrote about writing about what I do. So I guess I should write about what I do! Some of my bio’s and “About” pages are a bit out of date – I must remedy that. For now, here’s some of the things I’m up to right now. Technology I’m a software […]

  • Cartooning

    2018-08-21

    I’m rubbish at drawing. Not just bad; positively terrible. It’s actually properly difficult to tell the difference between my young son’s drawings and my own. But I do find some kinds of drawing fun. I tried to get into sketching for a while (and will have a go again sometime, I’m sure). Today, I took […]

  • About SchoolBot

    2018-08-15

    I am NOT getting involved in school communications…but… I have school children now. And I kinda made a vow to not get involved in school communications. Mostly because the primary job of school staff is educating and caring for children to do, and they don’t want some geeky parent turning up with bright ideas that […]

  • Adding a “delete” link to a Vue component representing a Laravel model

    2018-06-14

    This very much falls into the category of “things that must surely be easier”. So let me know in the comments if it is actually easier. Here’s the thing, I’m tinkering with Vue and Laravel. I have a Vue component that represents a Laravel model object. I note that the component has a hierarchy of […]

  • Gardening, baking, connecting

    2018-05-21

    This comes with all my usual Rob Bell caveats – make of him what you will, because I’m not even sure myself – but I was listening to this interview about food, ecology, the earth, soil, people, education and being alive while making sourdough. It’s fascinating and inspiring. It made me glad that I have […]

  • Electronic voting

    2018-05-02

    It’s voting day in the local elections tomorrow. And this comes with apologies to my mum, who retweeted this poll and made it appear in my Facebook and subsequently got a passionate rant from her son. She’s awesome and I totally ❤️ her! But it’s a good excuse to get people thinking about this… I’m a […]

  • If you’ve ever felt like you owed me a beer…

    2018-03-09

    My college computing teacher, Ray Burcham, is raising money for the Great Western Hospital radiotherapy unit. This will mean that cancer patients don’t have to travel 30 miles to Oxford for daily cancer treatment. https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/raymond-burcham This man is the reason I’m writing code today. So if you’ve ever had some advice, good-value work, IT support, […]