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I'm a fan of TomSka. Have been for a long time. I did not expect to be pulling a quote from one of his 2023 "Last Month" vlogs on the nature of personal goals and relationships, but here we are. …

A potentially useful tool for making your browser's new tab page a lot more productive (even if it isn't quite what I …

A look back at how my monthly "threeme" system has been going, what I want to change, and what I managed to mess up as I went along.

A look into my most recent productivity framework: every month set three, roughly prioritised focus areas. It's not novel, but it's been a slow-burn journey over the past twelve months or so and seems to be working well.

I have no idea how useful this little web-app may actually turn out to be, but it's definitely a neat idea (and I wrote all of this in it too!). "The Most Dangerous Writing App" is certainly an odd …

It's that odd time of year, the bit between Christmas and New Year where time doesn't really flow like you expect it to. No one knows what day of the week it is and everything seems to be …

An attempted experiment to replicate the blog layout of ilovetypography.com, which uses floats to great effect, with more modern CSS Grid and Flex techniques. Turned out to not be quite so simple, but taught me a lot about the benefits and limitations of CSS Grid.

There, in a single sentence, is the issue with the concept of 'culture fit', something that is incredibly prevalent in the modern workplace. Companies like Google and Apple bang on about their …

A series of articles addressing the argument that there are simply too many damned dinosaurs in some assemblages. Darren has put together 8 separate pieces dissecting each of the most …

We're almost at the midway point of 2020, so I thought it would be a good moment to take a look at my New Year's challenges list and see how things were going.

A look at how I've been using Git aliases to remove repetitive tasks, automate workflows, and generally optimise working on the command line. They're small tips, but they've had a big impact on me.

Baldur has written a wonderfully paced, deeply interesting post on the whole SPA/MPA (AKA normal website) debate with one critical conclusion: SPAs are fine; MPAs are fine; anything will suck if …

With half the year now firmly in the past, how are my 2022 goals coming along?

A story about how individually-driven KPIs rarely consider team-driven work, despite the fact that the latter is often the key ingredient in building efficient and effective …

The trouble with drafting blog posts and then mentally filing them under "done", without ever actually hitting publish.

Ever spend weeks writing something, hit publish, and then feel completely unsatisfied. That's what just happened to me. So I figured I'd try to work out why.

What are my goals, themes, and overarching desires for the year ahead; and how does 2023 compare to what I had hoped it would become.

How well does an iPad work as full code editing device; a veritable laptop replacement? That's what I wanted to find out.

Somehow, I've been writing these little blurbs for an entire decade now. What better time to take a look back at how this site has evolved.