Life is so hard. Sometimes I think it’s the hardest thing there is.
A Hippocratic Oath for Software Engineers
13 August, 2021Tags
What developers and doctors might have in common - towards a professional code of conduct for the tech industry
Goals are meaningless, apart from the meaning they provide
23 December, 2020Tags
I started this year without much in the way of goals or resolutions. Just as well really, given what 2020 has brought for us all. I…
Ton up - on reaching 100 parkruns
13 July, 2020Tags
It took me 2 years to get from my first Parkrun to my 50th, and just over 2 years to get from 50 to 100. That might suggest a steady plod…
Ask In The Channel: Private Messages Considered Harmful
26 May, 2020Tags
Anti-patterns in instant messaging, and why teams need to get more comfortable about being vulnerable.
Always leave them wanting more
27 December, 2019Tags
Apparently Amanda Palmer is doing a 4-hour show of songs and talking. It sounds horrible. Not because I have a particular dislike of Amanda…
A new beginning - a first run in Lewes
03 September, 2019Tags
Exploring new running routes in Lewes - a first trip North along the Ouse, with a few wrong turns and some nettles.
There isn't a module for that already?
24 May, 2019Tags
Working with the grain of web technology to give clients what they need, rather than struggling against it to try and give them what they want. Along the way, introducing two new Drupal modules: CKEditor Datetime and Image Styles Display
The bigger picture and the smaller details
20 April, 2019Tags
The importance of taking time to think about where we're going
A framework for progressively decoupled Drupal: Introducing the SPALP module
15 December, 2018Tags
A new Drupal 8 module for managing single page JavaScript application configuration
Stopping SVG icons from going "blobby"
29 November, 2018Tags
TIL that applying a stroke colour with CSS can make SVG icons look strange
