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  • npm-free LiveReload(ish): Simple scripts for asset watching and auto-reload in the browser

    2024-03-02

    A super simple asset-watching script and "LiveReload" functionality. All fitting with my values. Let's see what it looks like!

  • Keyboard Shortcuts – A 5 Minute Window

    2023-01-17

    You may be asking: "Where is the dock?" and "How is he switching apps without anything showing on the screen?"

  • Things all developers need to make in their career #17: A static site generator

    2021-06-20

    There’s a sort-of-joke that there’s a bunch of things that all developers are supposed to code from scratch at some point in their career. A blog. A to-do list app. The “canonical” applications. And one of these is a static site generator. I’ve actually never built any of these things from scratch. But while making […]

  • Tinkerwell for WordPress Developers

    2020-01-24

    Tinkerwell is a brilliant tool from the Laravel world that I believe can really help WordPress developers. Read up, watch my introductory video, and buy the darned thing!

  • CV tips from someone who’s not applied for a job for many years

    2019-11-03

    Some tips on writing CVs from someone who probably isn't qualified to give them!

  • Tech Note: Checking the integrity of npm modules

    2019-10-21

    Quick tech note on how to find and check the integrity hash value of an npm package.

  • Cordless family life

    2018-08-28

    Freed from the constraints of having to find an appropriate combination of socket, circuit breaker, and extension lead, I could now just grab-and-go.

  • (Developer) Tools talk

    2017-11-09

    Last night I gave a talk at the Cheltenham WordPress MeetupĀ 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 […]

  • Sublime to PHPStorm and Back: A coder’s text editor journey

    2017-09-01

    Coding News: I swapped my super-duper IDE for a less-functional text editor – you’ll never guess what happened next! Actually, it was a really good exercise, and here’s why. I was chatting with my friend Keiron today about text editors. I recently followed him in transitioning from Sublime Text to PHPStorm. But I explained to […]

  • Sketching: A tools update

    2014-10-18

    You'll be glad to hear, I now have some pencils for my sketching projects!

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