Blogging
AI is my copilot
I accidentally vibe coded a thing My team has been struggling with questions like “what do we mean by X?” and disagreeing about what certain terms mean in the context our work. So on Friday i decided that the answer was to create a glossary of terms to give us a shared vocabulary,. I made… Read note →
Write then
Blogging Challenge: Embracing Daily Writing Practice After Years I’ve had this domain, and a blog on it for an awfully long time. In fact, I’ve just checked, the first post is from 18 years ago this month, a few months before my second daughter was born. I wrote a lot more back then. I guess… Read note →
Wayback Machine saved my skin
A while back I did a very silly thing. Well, actually I did a series of things that all seemed perfectly sensible at the time but the upshot was a bit of a disaster. I started this blog way back in 2006 and over the years I accumulated over 100 posts, which is not a… Read note →
Back in the saddle
In the last few years my enthusiasm for blogging had dwindled to the point where I’ve only posted twice in four years. I’m hoping that’s about to change. Last week I was at Full Frontal in Brighton a one day conference for JavaScript Developers. It’s a great event which is now in its sixth year,… Read note →
A bit of a spring clean…
In preparation for launching a new design for fordie.co.uk in the coming weeks I’ve just been re-jigging the site’s categories. They are now organised hierarchically under either personal or technical. This hasn’t made any obvious effect to the look of the site yet, but it will (hopefully) help me achieve the layout I want for… Read note →
That was painless!
I just update this site to WordPress 2.1 (Ella). The entire process took under ten minutes and so far, eveything seems to be working as it should! This is the first WP update I’ve bothered with and I’m not sure how many of the new features I’ll use (I already have a spell checker in… Read note →
Anyone got recommendations for blog stats packages?
At the moment I’m using google analytics, which is frankly overkill; plus it doesn’t tell me things like how many comments I’ve had in a given period. I’m also trying performancing.com’s metrics which do have more relevant reports for blogs but (and this is very irritating) you can’t change it to display in your local… Read note →
A change of theme
I decided it was time for a change of theme. I know I’ve only had the blog going for a couple of months, but I’ve not been entirely happy with the look of the site since the word go. The old “Almost Spring” theme was OK but not quite what I was after. The new… Read note →
moblogging…
It would be dead handy if I could post to my blog from a mobile. I rarely find time to right entries for my blog at the moment, being able to post quickly from the phone would be realy nice. I’ve been playing about over the last day or so with lifeblog from nokia. It’s… Read note →