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New Jun 5, 2026
No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious - Ted Chiang [link]
I didn't really need to read much past the title or subtitle, but it's still an excellent essay that does a good job of drawing comparisons to concepts we already understand, for example: The term...
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New Jun 5, 2026
Are you standard.site? [link]
Another (shorter) entry in how how devs are adding Standard.site to their web sites to enrich the social cards.I suspect we'll start to gravitat towards tools to help us to add these - which is what...
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New Jun 5, 2026
How I foot-gunned our newsletter this week [blog]
For the second year running, as part of our "stay sane" strategy for FFConf, Julie and I write and send a weekly newsletter. It's structured the same way so it means we have a much better...
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New May 17, 2026
The 30 year game [blog]
Today I'm releasing my Game Boy game called Marbles² (or Marbles Squared). It's a port of a game that I originally wrote back in 2002, but is a game that started in my life in (or around) 1996. The...
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New May 15, 2026
When the Cranes Fly South [book]
Took me a minute to get into, but then…I cried. The good kind. It took me until around 20% of the book to get on with it properly. I was struggling to even want to pick up the book. It's well written,...
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New May 13, 2026
NES Programming in 6502 Assembly [link]
Source:...
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New May 8, 2026
A popover backdrop anti-pattern [blog]
After attending recent conferences and learning that I can swap out buckets of JavaScript for the HTML native popover property, I've been using it liberally throughout my own projects. For little pop...
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New May 1, 2026
devtools: how to query through the shadow DOM [blog]
This is a literal TIL but was so handy I had to put it my blog so that I wouldn't forget it later. Thanks to Big Brain Keith Cirkel for sharing this. As (hopefully) you know, there's the $ and $$...
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New Apr 27, 2026
Apps I use, that you might not know [blog]
This is a cheap post to share some of the apps (macos, sorry Windows users) that I use on a fairly regular basis and think some of you might not have heard of before (whilst still being...
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New Apr 26, 2026
Lost Lambs [book]
Enjoyable, well drawn characters, a pleasure to read. I really enjoyed reading this book. The story floats like a butterfly from one character to the next and it works without losing the reader. The...
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New Apr 6, 2026
Another England: How to Reclaim Our National Story [book]
"Our diverse literary heritage reveals that we do not need a single national story" I bought and read this book after seeing Caroline Lucas speaking with Zack Polanski during a live session...
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New Mar 26, 2026
Fixing my slow Mac network speeds [blog]
For a while now both my desktop Mac (running Sonoma) and my laptop (running Tahoe - do not recommend) have had sub-optimal network speeds. My Android phone, on our network, on the same SSID, speed...
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New Mar 18, 2026
Web of State of the Browser Day Out [blog]
Okay, that's a stupidly obscure title. It's meant to represent the combined events: State of the Browser and Web Day Out - two events I attended in the last month. The short version is: if you get the...
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New Feb 24, 2026
Rivers of London (Rivers of London, #1) [book]
Vivid voice, fun and dark and original. I wasn't sure what I was getting in to reading Rivers of London (recommended multiple times on socials), especially as I kept finding the teens/young adult book...
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New Feb 12, 2026
git recent: what branch did I work on? [blog]
Mega short blog post, mostly for me to remember, but also might be useful to you. In a project I'll often work on and move around different branches throughout the day, and as the years wear on it's...