26 Jan - Giving 'the bird' the bird!
I am feeling a bit sad really... but everything moves on.
6 Nov - Bring forth the Sourdough - V2
It has been (checks notes) 7 whole years since my last foray into Sourdough. Time to try it again.
- 8 Oct - I was today old when I realised I could amend my git commits
You may be a 'Git pro' - I know just enough to be dangerous... but I am learning.
- 10 Aug - Lint has been schooling me about 'inset'
We all get stuck in our ways coding things in a certain way - a recent project's tooling has been making me look as alternatives.
- 26 Jan - How grey can you go?
We know that designers just love multiple tones of grey on projects, but just how light can you go on a standard white background and pass WCAG checks for accessibility?
- 18 Jan - Termush - a dystopian novella
I mean I am so astute when it comes to writing and English that I had never heard of a Novella :) I can get on board with a short story, especially if it is super bleak.
- 15 Jan - Obfuscating email using Netlify functions
No one wants their email address to be harvested for spam so let's use a Netlify function to hide it away.
- 2 Jan - Ultra-Processed People
Why do we all eat stuff that isn't food... and why can't we stop?
- 1 Dec - Linocut Christmas Cards
A print making technique I haven't used for quite a while
- 31 Oct - It's pumpkin time again!
Do you recall a cartoon called Trapdoor? This years effort reminds me of 'Bony'
- 1 Dec - Advent Window
And the dinosaurs played happily on.
- 31 Oct - Pumpkin carving time
Who doesn't love carving a pumpkin?
- 11 Dec - Covid comes a knocking
Felt we had done pretty well as a family to get so far through the pandemic but on the eve of my booster jab Covid had other ideas!
- 1 Sep - 30 Days of running
"What could possibly go wrong! After being 16 seconds off my personal goal of a 25min 5k before lockdown I haven't ran at all since. Obviously the best way to jump start things is by trying to run in some form for every day in September."
- 1 Jun - No news is good news
The weeks leading up to lockdown were a blur of shifting sands of work sources, projects changing and agencies suffering. Sadly the one I had been regularly helping out had seen their projects stall and as such I was a first thing to be cut.
- 4 Mar - Let me be your glue
This post is partly me wondering why I don’t seem to fit in, a slight moan at how unrealistic job adverts seem to be and a wish for simpler times!
- 7 Jan - A new process for the New Year
After trying and failing to keep up with 'to do' lists using digital methods I have turned to analogue!
- 21 Nov - Creating complex layouts using CSS Grid
- 17 Sep - The future of micropayments - enter Coil
- 8 Sep - On a weak note
- 1 Sep - Are the summer holidays perfect training for studio management?
- 18 Jun - A new cycle route - but people still being crazy
- 5 Apr - Back to Basics - CSS & HTML
- 25 Mar - Back to Basics - Better Form User Experience
- 4 Mar - Websites are not for designers and developers, they are for users
- 6 Feb - 3 mistakes small businesses make with Wordpress
- 21 Jan - The best bike I ever bought... so far.
- 21 Dec - Well that went quickly...
- 4 Oct - We are ALL idiots... to an extent
- 17 Jun - World Cup Dinners 2018
- 24 May - The Sun will still rise tomorrow
- 27 Feb - NET Magazine - Design Challenge
- 2 Feb - Prepare for GDPR - Understand your data
- 24 Jan - GDPR for small businesses
- 15 Jan - Time spent trying to be productive
- 8 Jan - Static Site Generators and JAMStack.
- 29 Nov - Know when to hold them... know when to fold them.
- 17 Sep - And that is why you don't want to spend too much time swimming and snorkelling!
- 24 Jun - Summer Solstice 2013 - A #microadventure
- 6 Jun - Getting Started with Responsive Design
- 16 May - It is OK to hoard... you never know when you might need something!
- 15 May - 10 ways to back up your design work
- 15 May - 10 ways the role of 'web designer' is changing
- 13 Mar - Time waits for no one
- 2 Mar - Can you really design purely in a browser?
- 26 Feb - How do you support your ongoing clients with website updates/support? Do you use a retainer or charge hourly?
- 20 Feb - There is something about the darkside...
- 18 Feb - #ecomchat - Enhancing Ecommerce with Mobile
- 23 Jan - The problem with Getting things done...
- 18 Jan - Taking the blinkers off