Writing

• Goodbye Twitter... or whatever you're called these days

  7 September 2023, 2:43 pm

  Goodbye Twitter... or whatever you're called these days. We've certainly had an on-and-off relationship over the years haven't we!

• The "Climate Crisis": What to Make of It?

  31 May 2023, 12:28 pm

  In these times of being constantly overwhelmed by the deluge of information, I'm finding it trickier than ever to discern the true motivations and intentions behind what is presented as fact, with one such topic being the "climate crisis."

• Resonating with Albert Eistein

  14 February 2023, 10:08 am

  Some quotes by Albert Eistein that deeply resonate at the moment.

• My Front End Resources 2023

  12 February 2023, 5:36 pm

  The last time I shared a post on my list of frontend resources was back in 2019. I think it's about time I posted an update — seeing that's it's 2023 after all.

• World population growth

  21 September 2022, 10:00 pm

  This is both disturbing and mesmerising. Watching in ‘real-time’ the global population grow.

• Perspective

  5 April 2022, 5:41 pm

  It is interesting how a trauma or potentially bad news can snap one into focus. It has the liberating effect of pushing all the not so important things right to the back of the queue. It’s like life seems to gain this unexpected yet welcomed clarity.

• Redesigning in the open

  22 February 2022, 9:50 am

  I've decided to take the scary route (for me anyway) of redesigning and developing my website in the open. I've been inspired by others that have done this and thought it may be an interesting process. Not least because I'm a bit of a perfectionist and doing this may be a good way of weaning me off the need to have things completely polished before showing them. 😱

• "Do not ask your children to strive"

  26 January 2022, 5:46 pm

  A poem by William Martin.

• "The Guy in the Glass"

  11 January 2021, 2:43 pm

  I attended a dear family friend's memorial recently. A person who really was the salt of the earth. One of his nephews read out the poem, "The Guy in the Glass". It moved me deeply so I thought I'd share it here.

• Noisy times

  10 June 2020, 2:41 pm

  These are strange times for sure and all too often I’m finding myself overly concerned with the future and primarily its potential outworking for my kids. Most of which I have no way of controlling anyway; and yet these thoughts can end up taking up a big chunk of space in my mind and sapping me of energy.

• Peter Hart.

  12 May 2020, 9:16 pm

  Today I lost a very dear friend and I'm still reeling in disbelief. Pete's his name. Peter Hart.

• A front-end muddle

  11 April 2019, 11:33 am

  If you find yourself getting in a muddle about what front-end development entails these days.

• My Front End Resources 2019

  15 March 2019, 9:33 am

  I thought it may be nice to list out some of the people, blogs, resources and tools I find myself referring to a fair amount these days while doing the front-end design and developer thing. I'm indebted to many of the people here and am grateful that they've given so generously of their skills, experience and time.

• Blood, skin and tech wizardry

  1 May 2018, 8:54 pm

  I can't help thinking that there’s more at stake here if we merely get wrapped up in creating new technologies just because we can.

• Reset

  15 October 2016, 8:34 am

  It feels like a reset. A reboot on every level. Things I thought I knew for certain, I now question.