any decent answer to an interesting question begins, “it depends…”
red-route.org is the personal website of Malcolm Young.
Getting down to the nitty-gritty of migration
08 March, 2016Tags
Having eventually got my new VM up and running, I ended up down another rabbit hole for a little while. It took me longer than it should…
Looking forward to the end of my double life as Alan Partridge
08 March, 2016Tags
For the last 3 years, I’ve been staying in hotels at least 2 nights a week, and this is my last week of it. We’re moving back to London, and…
A day of yak shaving and narrowly avoiding being nerd sniped
04 March, 2016Tags
As I previously mentioned, I’d got a basic migration of configuration and content from the Drupal 6 Gallery Guide to a new Drupal 8 site up…
Showing my working
03 March, 2016Tags
After my first post about rebuilding The Gallery Guide on Drupal 8, it struck me that I wasn’t being open enough. I normally use Bitbucket…
Rebuilding The Gallery Guide in the open
02 March, 2016Tags
First steps on migrating a Drupal 6 site to Drupal 8, sharing what I learn along the way.
The rise of the engineers, the grunt hammer and artisanal analogue CSS
01 March, 2016Tags
The pendulum of complexity is swinging, but Grunt and Gulp are useful tools, just like Photoshop and ProTools
Why does there have to be an app for that?
22 February, 2016Tags
On the pointlessness of apps (especially ones built with public money) and the value of the web.
Pedantry, goat-getting, and excitement fatigue
18 February, 2016Tags
A gentle rant about some of the irritations of modern life, including the ridiculous hyperbole of Zane Lowe and Jonathan Pearce
Once you're wet you're wet
17 February, 2016Tags
Running in the rain isn’t that bad. Once you’ve started, you get used to it pretty quickly. You’re probably going to have a shower when you…
Seniority, strength, and serendipity - what makes a good lead developer?
09 February, 2016Tags
Some thoughts on the most important qualities for a senior developer.