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• Bear Notes – my new favourite Markdown editor and notes app

  2016-11-04

  New iOS/OSX Markdown notes app "Bear" isn't for everyone, but if you're an Apple-using, Markdown-writing power user, it's excellent. My new favourite.

• Anxiety is normal

  2016-10-02

  The people around you - your family, your colleagues, your friends, all probably have anxieties. You may never know it. Go easy on them!

• Parenting: Living someone else’s life

  2016-09-01

  And so we've come to see that one of the key facts of parenting is that you really truly do start living someone else's life.

• The Podcast Podcast — a satirical lesson in boring audio formats

  2016-08-10

  On my walk to work today I was listening to a podcast. I can’t help but think that format isn’t quite right. Here’s a transcript of how not to make a boring piece of audio. With apologies to anyone that makes podcasts — I actually admire and respect your work. Consider this “constructive feedback”, and I hope […]

• Software doesn’t have to be terrible

  2016-08-06

  TL;DR: We’re coding for the web all wrong. And it’s mostly because of the languages we’re using. We’re piling hack upon hack upon hack. Good coding principles and practices are becoming more common in web development, but I can’t help wishing we could take a few steps back and start with tools that help us write better […]

• Holidays with my favourite people

  2016-06-17

  Back from a brilliant family holiday week. Such a happy time with my favourite people.

• Pre-Brexit Price Risk-Reduction Tip

  2016-06-08

  "Brexit" is/might be coming. Is there an opportunity to get some cash in the bank and help out your customers at the same time?

• A photo of something less boring that politics

  2016-06-05

  I've been a bit of a Brexit/politics bore tonight. Feeling the need for some light-hearted relief. Here's a photo of a pre-schooler in dinosaur pyjamas brandishing a camera made of stickle-bricks. I challenge you not to smile.