• Tinkerwell for WordPress Developers

    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!

  • Catching a Tailwind: My components revelation

    A huge number of people in my tech circles seemed to love Adam Wathan's Tailwind CSS framework. But, for some reason, I just didn't get it. Until I had this revelation about components that has caused me to go and take a serious look.

  • Understanding web "components"

    The pre-amble to my Tailwind thoughts in which I lay down my goal to properly get to grips with "components"

  • Statamic: First impressions

    While the confusion over the launch of WordPress’s new “Gutenberg” editor continues, I’ve been considering some other options. As someone who also works in the Laravel world, Statamic is making a pretty big blip on my radar. It’s a content management system that ‘runs on a “flat file” engine based on Markdown and YAML files’. […]

  • Websites without photos

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

  • Thoughts on AMP

    Some un-structured thoughts on Google's (AMP) project and Facebook's Instant Articles and how they might affect small publishers.

  • What will WordPress be?

    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 […]