General

2026-10-23T00:00:00.000Z 23rd October 2026

Power management for standing desks

A tidy, safe way to power a whole office of standing desks without daisy-chaining extension leads.

2026-07-30T00:00:00.000Z 30th July 2026

Setting up Claude Code

The settings I reach for when setting up Claude Code

2026-07-29T00:00:00.000Z 29th July 2026

Old MacDonald outsourced his farm, AI, AI. Oh.

AI is everywhere and everyone is talking about it, so I thought I would throw my hat in the ring

2026-03-26T00:00:00.000Z 26th March 2026

Checking your websites with the BLAT test

The longer you stare at something, the less you see. Internal BLAT tests exist for exactly that reason.

2025-12-27T00:00:00.000Z 27th December 2025

2025 Quiz of the Year

A Christmas quiz for (nearly) all ages

2025-10-11T00:00:00.000Z 11th October 2025

Shower thoughts that live in my head rent free

Things I ponder and think about occasionally

2025-09-19T00:00:00.000Z 19th September 2025

Add a space to your OSX doc for organisation

I like to separate out my apps in my dock by using spacers

2025-09-18T00:00:00.000Z 18th September 2025

Setting up a new Apple computer for web development

Settings, apps, tips and tricks for setting up a new Apple computer for web development

2025-05-11T00:00:00.000Z 11th May 2025

Timeline arc: Coffee

A post about this history of one of my hobbies: Coffee., a navel-gazing meander of coffee machines & grinders

2024-12-23T00:00:00.000Z 23rd December 2024

2024 Quiz of the Year

A Christmas quiz for (nearly) all ages

2024-12-05T00:00:00.000Z 5th December 2024

Slow upload speed with Apple MacOS - how to debug and what to check

Recently the upload speed on my MacOS devices suddenly dropped - debugging was a nightmare

2024-11-14T00:00:00.000Z 14th November 2024

thisisunsafe - how to bypass Chrome's ERR_CERT_INVALID warning

During development or pre-launch, you may be faced with a ERR_CERT_INVALID - how do you bypass it?

2024-02-09T00:00:00.000Z 9th February 2024

Tweetback

I set up a self-hosted read-only archive of my tweets

2023-01-17T00:00:00.000Z 17th January 2023

Why I miss the limitations of CD players

Spotify is vast, but I miss the stack of CDs adorning my walls

2022-05-20T00:00:00.000Z 20th May 2022

New Apple computer set up

What steps do I go through when setting up a new computer?

2020-11-20T00:00:00.000Z 20th November 2020

What is a server?

Liquid Light

Servers power the internet and have done since the creation of it. All the websites in the world run on servers (with varying levels of web interfaces & logins). So what are they, how do they work and what do Liquid Light typically use?

2018-10-18T00:00:00.000Z 18th October 2018

Music obsessions

The table below details what I've been listening to, what I am listening to, or albums I've discovered. There is no shame in this list

2016-12-15T00:00:00.000Z 15th December 2016

What's new in Feefo v3?

Liquid Light

Feefo, the customer feedback and review website, launched version 3 of their product at the end of September. Although customers had no choice to be updated to version 3, what does this ...

2016-12-12T00:00:00.000Z 12th December 2016

"HD" cheap action cam - you get what you pay for

Recently, a friend and I purchased a cheap action camera from eBay to see what quality you get for £14

2016-07-13T00:00:00.000Z 13th July 2016

Using lego to build a device lab

Liquid Light

Making sure the websites we build work across a myriad of devices is paramount during the build process at...

2011-05-19T00:00:00.000Z 19th May 2011

Chilly's Dip

I found this in an old recipe book I found in a charity shop. Not quite sure what happened to it, but I've tweaked the recipe and named it after my wife!

2010-06-25T00:00:00.000Z 25th June 2010

Wiitar: Combining the Wiimote, MAX/MSP and Mainstage

For the final year of my degree, I was required to create an Experimental System Design. At the time, I was heavily involved with a live version of The ...

2010-06-02T00:00:00.000Z 2nd June 2010

The next step...

So you've got a brand new website that you want to promote? Recently I finished a website for Frag Records. Once completed they asked me for some hints and tips ...