IndieWebCamp Brighton 2024
I finally made it to an IndieWebCamp! It was a huge amount of fun and left me with many ideas, thoughts, and questions.
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2023: The Year of Our Big Day
2023 was another BIG year in terms of, well, everything. We travelled all over the world. We attended scores of major events. And we got married. It's taken a while to write up, as a result!
Our Big Day
Specifically, the 6th (and 7th) of August, 2023; the day we tied the proverbial knot.
Half Way (And A Bit)
With half the year now firmly in the past, how are my 2022 goals coming along?
2021: The Year of Adulting
As far as years go, 2021 held some pretty big surprises and featured some fairly grown-up decisions. Life will never be the same again...
Halloween 2021
Last year was the first in many that we didn't meet up with Tom, JK, Nat, and Adrian for a Halloween of over-indulgence and board games, so I'm extremely glad that we managed to pull that back around […]
Mastering SVG Animation
For the past couple of weeks I've been lucky enough to take part in Cassie Evans' latest SVG workshop (the first truly exceptional perk of the "new" career 🤩). The workshop was split into five […]
Improving Craft on Smaller Screens
Craft CMS can be a very enjoyable mobile authoring experience, but it can be improved with some clever plugins and a few relatively new core features.
Go Fest 2021
Following on from the success of last year's pandemic event (and the follow-up at Christmas) it looks like Go Fest will likely be an annual, worldwide, ticketed event 🎉 Honestly, whilst […]
A Small Slice of Normal
The summer solstice started like most Sunday's of the past year: we had a fairly lazy morning, ate brunch, Alison read a bit whilst I tinkered on the microsite. And then we pulled out our drumming […]
Facebook vs publishers
I find the whole Australian link tax to be silly and a rare instance where I'm very much on the side of Big Tech, but Thomas has done a much better job of explaining why it's all a farce than I […]
Green Versus Red
Clearly last year's global Go Fest was a success, because six months later Niantic have followed it up with a ticketed Kanto event. Focusing on the original slate of 151 Pokémon, the event included […]
A Wander through the Woods
As our time in Cumbria comes to a necessary close, it felt right to head out for our longest local walk yet. We drove down to the Middle Gelt viaduct only a few minutes outside of the village), […]
Friends, Just At A Distance
We've been in Cumbria now for more than long enough to know we didn't bring anything rotten with us. Combine that with a brief period where most people we know are currently off work (including […]
Campfield Marsh
Time to make some use of the extended freedoms we still enjoy in Cumbria, with a road trip out to the Solway. It's the first time I've been around the industrial parks on the north edge of Carlisle […]
Brampton Mote
With London in Tier 4, Cumbria heading for Tier 3, and the Christmas "free for all" period cancelled, we've found ourselves a little stranded in Cumbria. We'd always planned to go back within the […]
Frozen Fieldfares
Each day the weather gets a bit more wintery, which can only mean one thing: snow on the high tops! Both the lakes and the distant Scottish mountains had been peppered with white drifts overnight, so […]
The Hidden Tarn
The various lockdowns have forced everyone in the UK to explore their local areas much more than they had previously, and my parents are no exception to that rule. Earlier in the summer, their local […]