Category: Techie

  • Where do I fit?

    2019-01-10

    I'm a bit stuck with my plans for 2019. The big question really, is: where do I fit in the world of web development?

  • Skirting the iOS/Safari audio auto-play policy for UI sound effects

    2019-01-07

    In some cases involving asynchronous operations, Safari's auto-playing media policies seem to prevent playing sounds, when playing them should be OK and when other browsers are fine with playing them. Here's a dive into it with example code and a workaround!

  • Statamic: First impressions

    2018-11-22

    While the confusion over the launch of WordPress’s new “Gutenberg” editor continues, I’ve been considering some other options. As someone who also works in the Laravel world, Statamic is making a pretty big blip on my radar. It’s a content management system that ‘runs on a “flat file” engine based on Markdown and YAML files’. […]

  • Beat the Street – tinkering with a virtual version of the game

    2018-09-29

    In Swindon at the moment there is this brilliant “game” called “Beat the Street” intended to get people out and about and walking and cycling. They have put more than 170 boxes around the town, strapped to lampposts, and they have given out thousands of fobs and cards. The way the “game” works is that […]

  • Helpful IT notice: emails with your password in!

    2018-09-21

    Yesterday I looked in the spam box in my email account, and found that there were some messages in there that had an old, out-of-date password in the subject line. These were quite scary-looking messages trying to blackmail me. But the presence of an actual password that I used to use made them seem very […]

  • CSS and… err …job titles?

    2018-09-12

    I think it's easier to switch languages than to switch disciplines. We need job titles that better describe our disciplines.