Fixing my iPhone 7 Plus
Repairing my phone so that I can spend the money buying photography gear instead! 😆 Using iFixit parts and guides made it easy, but the result was a little underwhelming.
Posts
2022
The Last Straw
When a regular expression failed to work as expected I almost renounced software development entirely. Warning: this post contains a vent.
2021
Not your normal Saturday night cocktails
A chance encounter at the supermarket leads to trying a new genre of photography whilst getting a bit tipsy!
Recently — November 2021
A round up of the (many) changes that have happened over the past few weeks.
First Impressions of Ghost(Pro)
Ghost is a wonderful publishing platform but I wish it didn't offload so many features to developers and end-users.
2018
A Caveat to 'Consumption Spirals'
Sometimes buying 'nice things' is the start of a dangerous spending spiral. Sometimes it's the start of a long and beautiful relationship full of love and care.
Private Content with Statamic
How to protect content when building a membership site with Statamic, adding different membership 'tiers'.
One Percent Better
Regular, incremental improvements can deliver incredible advancements — if you let them! I examine how focusing on the little details can improve your software and business.
Analytics vs. User Surveys
Making analytics-lead changes brought us to a local maximum. Running a user survey helped me take the business to the next level.
Build a membership site with Statamic
How to build a basic membership site with Statamic 2 and the Charge add-on.
'Deep Work' by Cal Newport
'Deep Work' by Cal Newport is an easy addition to my 'never get rid of' collection of books.
Wordpress to Statamic migration
A data migration is always a horrible task, but migrating Wordpress' tangled content to clean markdown and YAML was a real test.
2017
Going It Alone
After two years at Bikesoup, I'm leaving for pastures new. Here's what I intend to get up to.
A More Sustainable iPhone
Is Apple shifting to more expensive devices that are more powerful, better made and last longer?
Thoughts on Things' Pricing
Pricing software is hard — and the right decision seems obvious — but CulturedCode shows that a conventional approach can still work.
2016
Discovering Tachyons
Tachyons by Adam Morse was Tailwind's predecessor and introduced utility-first CSS to the world. Here's how I found it and slowly adopted the approach.
Why I Axed My Serverless App
Building Javascript, single-page, serverless apps is about as convoluted as it gets. I killed mine before ever launching it.