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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, […]
This is the cool kid I get to hang out with on Thursdays. ?
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.
As a developer, I think I'm coming around to the idea of the new WordPress Gutenberg editor. Here's my updated thoughts and reflections.
TDD is a BIG change of mindset for development. Here's my initial thoughts after paddling around in the shallow end for a little bit.
Gutenberg will be great for new projects going forward, but I've yet to be convinced that enabling it for all sites when they update to WordPress 5.0 is a good idea. So my plan is not to.
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.