Creativity, curiosity, and code
This is from a great episode of the ChangeLog podcast that interviews Tim Bell, the founder and creator of CS Unplugged: a collection of free teaching material that teaches computer science through engaging games and puzzles. I struggle with how much screentime our kids have. Perhaps this quote will inspire is to do more creative things […]
Yesterday I was struggling with getting Vue components to do non-AJAXy things and wondering why on earth this was so difficult.
In which I lament my own utter incompetence, but also switch back from VS Code to PHPStorm in a flash and cry quietly over programming languages.
I'm using Test Driven Development (TDD) for the first (and second) time on a couple of side projects. Here are some further reflections on the process and issues I've come across.
I'm going on the journey of building a simple, private, self-hosted, cookie-free analytics tool that I'm calling Kownter. I may fail. But it will be fun and interesting! Come along!
Here's a thread designed to help non-web people understand how something that seems trivial on a website can lead to so many micro-decisions needing to be made.
Laravel uses token auth by default, here's how to switch it out for simple cookie-based auth for quick and easy API tinkering for logged-in users.
Last night I gave a talk at the Cheltenham WordPress Meetup on the amazing toolkit called "(Developer) Tools" in your web browser. The group is very mixed in terms of technical ability so this was a great topic, and I put "Developer" in brackets because there's something in Developer Tools for all website creators, regardless of […]
Coding News: I swapped my super-duper IDE for a less-functional text editor – you’ll never guess what happened next! Actually, it was a really good exercise, and here’s why. I was chatting with my friend Keiron today about text editors. I recently followed him in transitioning from Sublime Text to PHPStorm. But I explained to […]
I finally feel like I’m getting to grips with Laravel’s service container. I’ve understood HOW it works and WHAT is does for a while, but it’s taken a simple, real-world example to pull it all together and make it all “stick”. Disclaimer: I may still have all this wrong, in which case correct me in […]