Tag: web

  • Websites without photos

    2016-11-22

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

  • Thoughts on AMP

    2016-02-26

    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?

    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 […]

  • Not so rapid application development

    2015-11-26

    I recently re-launched hasyourbabyarrivedyet.com, my super, super simple birth announcement service. I’ve rewritten it in Laravel: a PHP-based rapid application development framework. And one thing I learned is that launching even a super, super simple web application in public is a far from rapid process. Hasyourbabyarrivedyet.com is basically a big red button that changes the […]

  • 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.

  • 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 […]

  • Where are you?!

    2010-08-20

    From the moment I first heard of Google Latitude I wondered why on Earth I'd want to tell the world where I was.