Category: thoughts
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Commuting kit
Because nobody demanded it here is a pic of my current day to day commuting kit. Its no wonder I have neck and shoulder pain! Not shown is the 6lb, 5 year old Dell laptop I tote around on a not quite daily basis (it requires me to be psyched up – for non work…
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Happy 10th Birthday WordPress
Apparently 10 years ago today the first release of WordPress was let loose on the world. It is now the most popular web publishing tool in the world by a looooonnnnggg way – not bad for a small, trans-Atlantic open source project. My career has been pretty entangled with WordPress during that decade – I…
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Ghost writing
I’ve been ‘umming and ahhing’ about it for a while but yesterday I finally got around to backing Ghost on Kickstarter. For those of you that aren’t aware of it Ghost is aiming to be; An open source blogging platform which makes writing pleasurable and publishing simple. The basic premise is that WordPress has become…
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Anker Astro2: the commuters friend
My life is basically a series of trips on public transport punctuated by occasional other activity (work, social life etc). My current job is responsible for a minimum of 13 hours a week of commuting – the vast majority of that on a train route that has no wifi, minimal 3G connectivity and worst of…
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Hawaii stynamic
The new Hawaii.gov website looks amazing but it is under the hood where it is really impressive – not a dissimilar approach to GDS. It is becoming clear that this kind of in-house development based on a suite of standardised open source tools rather than a big CMS is growing in popularity and certainly seems…
