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New Jan 13, 2026
Bytes I can delete after all this time [blog]
For the last few years my work-work has mostly focused on back end software (particularly around APIs). This meant that any front end work I was doing was for myself. Being an long-in-the-tooth old...
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New Jan 2, 2026
A Very Merry Murder (Malvern Farm Mystery, #6) [book]
Fine. Easy read. Guessed the murdered though 🤷 Grabbed it for the Christmas period (slightly annoyed I finished it on Jan 2nd). It's decently written, apparently part of a series (this being book 6)...
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New Jan 1, 2026
Books I read in 2025 [blog]
This post is mostly data driven (from my own web site's data) to give me a sense of the quality of the books I've read, otherwise individual reviews are all linked in this post or available on my...
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New Dec 31, 2025
My 2025 [blog]
I've been doing these posts ending my years, aiming to publish on the 31st, so I'm pleased that I've managed to get this post out the door. Mostly for my own reading, but perhaps yours...
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New Dec 18, 2025
The Satsuma Complex (Gary Thorn, #1) [book]
Light on the brain. Just the kind of read I wanted after a few longer books. Not 100% even throughout the book - but I'll come to that. The squirrel from the cover features a nice silly-ish part of...
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New Dec 6, 2025
Butter [book]
Made me hungry and could even smell the foods, but took me a long time to read which made it feel extremely stretched and disconnected. I really don't know why this book took me nearly 60 days to...
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New Dec 3, 2025
An opportunity to learn: Advent of Code [blog]
I've written about Advent of Code in the past, but that was 5 years ago, so this warrants a new post, and there's an extra opportunity, I...
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New Nov 29, 2025
Handing over to the AI for a day [blog]
Context: back in March 2025 I decided to put aside my scepticism and try AI driven development for the day. I appreciate that in 8 months, the AI landscape, particularly around agentic software dev...
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New Nov 22, 2025
FFConf 2025 [blog]
I've been wanting to write and share my experience of this year's event but a number of things have slowed me down - not least of all that it was Julie's birthday the following Tuesday (the first year...
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New Nov 12, 2025
Building an AI Sandbox with Docker [link]
As I think about how command line AI tools can be used, I know it's already a bit of the wild west not disimilar to the way we install npm modules. I've seen a bit of writing about how these tools...
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New Nov 12, 2025
Syntax Highlighting in Web Component Templates [blog]
A simple but effective fix to working with web components and VS Code. I wanted to get syntax highlighting and prettier support (to auto fix indenting, quotes, etc) in my component's templates. The...
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New Nov 4, 2025
Automerge [link]
Version control for your data: Automerge is a local-first sync engine for multiplayer apps that works offline, prevents conflicts, and runs fast. Interesting project, possibly for mini personal...
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New Oct 27, 2025
How has FFConf changed since it was known as Full Frontal? [blog]
Besides the name, the entire core foundation has changed. This question came up recently by someone who had either attended back in the early days or that knew of our event, but they (understandably)...
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New Oct 23, 2025
What Happened to Apple's Legendary Attention to Detail? [link]
I accidentally upgraded to Tahoe (I didn't know it existed and thought I was moving to Sequoia and the UI design is all over the place, and it's constantly reminding me how bad it is. This excellent...
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New Oct 6, 2025
Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI [book]
I'd recommend anyone who wants to understand the emergence of AI and OpenAI in particular to read this book. I do struggle reading non-fiction, and this book was no different. It took me nearly 2...
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New Oct 5, 2025
Making a low-budget conference look high-budget using an ATEM video mixer and a long USB cable [link]
Niels Leenheer goes through a detailed setup on how to take a single HDMI to projection into a mini event setup with holding screens. The technical detail is superb too, specifically considering power...
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New Oct 3, 2025
CSS HDR Gradients [link]
Very cool CSS gradient tooling by Adam Argyle.It's so pretty all I want to do is play with UI forgetting that it'll actually give me CSS.I also like that the URL is sharable and savable (perhaps...
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New Sep 25, 2025
Signal Pollution [blog]
Very recently I was forced to sign up to Meta due to a product purchase (don't at-me!) and I had forgotten what it was like to be part of the algorithms. Our entire family browse the internet (the web...