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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.
I’m speaking again at this year’s WordCamp London. Find out more about my talk on screencasts for user training.
Perhaps I should be a teacher after all? The whys and hows of my first forays into technical developer screencasts.
The impact of a simpler, freer life is clear. How much do we miss out on experiences because of caution, rules, expectations? Perhaps, sometimes, the risk of ‘going ropeless’ is worth it.
I think that the distinction between developers and designers is actually an important one that we should keep, not throw away.
[Old post] Written around the time I left my old job, his is a vagely amusing email exchange with a cyclist colleague of mine that’s worth saving.
There’s a great discussion going on on Emma Mulqueeny’s blog that’s people giving advice to a young person who’s thinking about going to Uni to study computer science, or something similar. Here’s my take on the matter (slightly edited).
Oikos is having a boom. I’m doing exactly what I want to be doing in exactly the sector I want to be doing it in. I’m loving it!
OK, OK, yes, this post is partly blatent self-promotion, but it’s also a moment of honesty and a hopefully-interesting reflection on an interesting little test that I did today.
I’ve been thinking about how my journey to leaving my job started. It’s funny how a few words can have such a profound effect on your life.