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I need to add social sharing buttons to a website…

2018-02-21

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.
Where I’m at with WordPress: Gutenberg – as a business owner and developer

2018-01-10

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.
(Developer) Tools talk

2017-11-09

Last night I gave a talk at the Cheltenham WordPress Meetup on the amazing toolkit called "(Developer) Tools" in your web browser. The group is very mixed in terms of technical ability so this was a great topic, and I put "Developer" in brackets because there's something in Developer Tools for all website creators, regardless of […]
Websites without photos

2016-11-22

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

2015-12-03

Change is upon us! If you work with WordPress, that is. I won’t go into details on the WordPress REST API that’s going to be a part of the software soon, or of “Calypso” which is a new tool for edit content and managing WordPress sites (both wordpress.com and self-hosted wordpress.org) that uses an API (or […]
Job Titles

2014-11-11

I think that the distinction between developers and designers is actually an important one that we should keep, not throw away.
WordPress “Quick Image” plugin – alpha

2014-11-05

I'm building a little WordPress dashboard widget for posting quick images to your blog. Here's what it is and why I made it.
WebDevConf 2014 – full notes

2014-10-10

Introduction Today was my first time at WebDevConf in Bristol. I was taking notes as I went. These are currently un-edited, and will probably make more sense to me than they will to others. But there might be useful tips and links in there. I may edit/tidy up at some point. Here’s the silly intro […]
WebDevConf 2014 – Three things

2014-10-10

Three main things that stood out from WebDevConf 2014
Open Source vs Commercial Off-the-Shelf Software

2012-10-11

I think the key difference between open-source and proprietary (closed-source) software isn't openness, documentation, flexibility, or cost. It's that people who write OpenSource software give a damn. They care.