The end of web side projects I still love working on the web. I still love building stuff that people can use but after 16 years building digital products, I'm finding the last thing I want to do when
Social Media Facebook free I opened my Facebook account in 2007. At the time, I was deemed a bit of a late-comer to the system and for a long time I resisted. I had Twitter for friends
Week notes Week notes #10 So I missed a few weeks, don't hassle me... wait, no-one is hassling me. Okay, we're cool. I've slept a lot since the last entry so I'm going to cover the last week
Week notes Week notes #9 Another week gone by already! The last couple of weeks I've been late or absent with an update so here I am drafting this on a Saturday evening, "will the surprises never end?
Week notes Week notes #8 The other week, I missed an update. This week I'm a day late. It's all unravelling so fast! The horror! It's gonna be a short one this time. There's honestly not much to
Week notes Week notes #7 I missed an update last week, I want to send these out on Sundays and I just couldn’t find time last weekend so I figured I wouldn’t beat myself up and
Comic grid The other day I was listening to Make It Then Tell Everybody and there was a discussion about having a grid to hand for putting comic page layouts together. I'm starting to put
Game of Thrones If you haven't seen the latest episode of Game of Thrones ("The Long Night") then don’t read further. Ok? Yeah? You sure? Ok, if you’re still here, I don’t want
Week notes Week notes #6 It’s been a long week of sunshine, sea, shells and eggs. I’ve had a week off and it’s been great so who cares if this post is a day late!
Week notes Week notes #5 Compared to previous weeks, it’s been all go these last 7 days. Work is going well. My boss went to the US for the Masters so I worked remotely all week. I
Week notes Week notes #4 Sunday again. I'm writing this with a background soundtrack of Hakuna Matatta while the boy watches The Lion King. After a few weeks of ups and downs with work, things are looking a
Design Systems Typography in Design Systems (rebound) About a week ago, I read Dan Mall's article, Typography in Design Systems, and I've been meaning to write a quick rebound post to expand on the section about the system in code
Week notes Week notes #3 It's Sunday morning once again so it's time to drop another one of these updates. Let me just start with Brexit. What a shit-show the whole thing is. Either put it to the
Week notes Week notes #2 Last week I began by saying it's been a largely uneventful week. I feel like saying the same this week so I guess from now on, unless I start my Week notes saying
Week notes Week notes #1 This has largely been an uneventful week. I'm still in redundancy limbo at work not knowing for certain whether I'm going to be made redundant or not but kind of already know that's
Week notes Week notes #0 There seems to be a resurgence in personal blogs which is great and it's got me inspired to get back into writing more. Another thing I’ve seen cropping up quite a lot
Design Sony: using their head(phone)s Followers on Twitter will know I love podcasts. I listen to them every day and as a result have acquired a fairly chunky number of subscriptions along the way. One of the most
My Apple buying habits A few days ago, I sent this tweet: “The reality is many consumers are quite content with the iPhone they have and they will only get a new one when it breaks or
Reading The Count of Monte Cristo Last year, I planned to read more and failed miserably. I used to read a lot and the last few years it's tailed off a bit so this year, I wanted to try
Personal Re-thinking my podcast habit I'd like to start by stating this is a very personal revelation. You're probably going to read this and think "Duh, you've only just got here?" so don't say I didn't warn you.
Personal Couch to 5K: about half way Since we found out we were having a baby, fitness kind of fell of the radar a bit. When the baby came a long and we were sleep deprived zombies, doing exercise wasn't
Comics 3 pages inked! My schedule doesn’t usually allow me time to smash out page after page of comics but having a week off work afforded me time to do just that. A comic I started
Comics It’s ok to start over I’ve finally started work on a comic I’ve had bouncing around my head for years. The characters and story are starting to slot into place but there’s still a lot
Personal Back to blogging It's been a while since I last tried to define what this blog is about. Going back through the archives, it's moved around in it's focus as my own focus and interests have
Comics The Horror “The Horror” - quick sketchbook comic strip. Being English, this is the stuff of nightmares for me…
