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• Forays into WordPress Technical Developer Screencasts

  2016-12-21

  Perhaps I should be a teacher after all? The whys and hows of my first forays into technical developer screencasts.

• Websites without photos

  2016-11-22

  Examples of websites that use no, or very few photos, simplifying design choices, and making them super fast.

• 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.