Hello (again) Firefox
I have recently returned to using Firefox as my main browser. I had been a Chrome user for many years. I switched shortly after it launched because it seemed much faster (remember when V8 was...
21 Nov 2019 My current podcast subscriptions
I listen to podcasts, a lot of podcasts. Over the last few years I’ve subscribed to a number of them that I listen to in the hours I’m travelling (after school dropoff, or commuting to/from...
25 Oct 2019 Git commit messages
A recent post from David Thompson, My favourite Git Commit, hit the top of Hacker News today and I thought I should jot down a few thoughts. When working on a small project alone, the...
18 Oct 2019 Infrequent Miscellany #3
This time: Flash, email, deep work & nuclear weapons
14 Oct 2019 URL ABC Updated
While trying to recover some of my long-lost posts from the Internet Archive I was reminded of this idea from Tim Van Damme. I figured being almost 10 years since I posted that it would...
09 Oct 2019 Infrequent Miscellany #2
This time: Postgres deep dive, tech stack, HTML attributes, machine learning and 21/9
22 Sep 2019 Infrequent Miscellany #1
This time: HTML email, Basecamp’s development processes, chiptunes and DeepFakes
11 Sep 2019 Introducing Infrequent Miscellany
It’s been a while since I’ve written regularly. To attempt to get back in to the habit I’m launching Infrequent Miscellany, an occasional digest of the latest interesting, weird and/or funny technology developments. I’ll try...
09 Sep 2019 Basic testing for mobile devices in a desktop browser
My browser of choice for development is Google’s Chrome Canary, a very frequently updated bleeding edge build of Chrome allowing you to preview upcoming features. One feature that I’ve been very fond of since its...
10 Jun 2016