Thoughts

2021-04-02T00:00:00.000Z 2nd April 2021

Side Project Imposter Syndrome

What is a side project, if not a safe place to get imposter syndrome?

2021-02-22T00:00:00.000Z 22nd February 2021

Socket RSS - The Gleefreshing answer to your Doomscrolling habits

I have recently made a side project called "Socket RSS". The idea is it becomes a place for Gleefreshing, not Doomscrolling.

2021-01-14T00:00:00.000Z 14th January 2021

Making sure you're not doing everything at work

Delegation is hard for people who find themselves in management roles. The trick is to be the overflow, not the gatekeeper.

2019-12-10T00:00:00.000Z 10th December 2019

How do you deal with designers who design without any thought?

Written For Liquid Light

As a developer, dealing with designers and their creations can sometimes be challenging. At Liquid Light we've honed our process to ensure minimum friction between both developers and designers.

2019-11-11T00:00:00.000Z 11th November 2019

How to become device agnostic and what it means for your data

Written For Liquid Light

All too often you hear about people losing their phones and, along with it, their data. This blog post explores how you can become "device agnostic", freeing the tether between your device and your memories.

2019-08-22T00:00:00.000Z 22nd August 2019

email.subscribeto - a newsletter database

I've always been keen to discover new newsletters and have always kept my eye out for recommendations. I decided to collate these recommendations and build a directory.

2019-07-31T00:00:00.000Z 31st July 2019

The Real World of Web Development

I read "The Real Dark Web", a blog post from @whalecoiner and within a few paragraphs it really hit home. There are a few noisy web developers who are innovating, ...

2018-11-17T00:00:00.000Z 17th November 2018

Xbox One vs PlayStation 4

I recently sold my Xbox One S and bout a PlayStation 4 Pro. Why did I do this and what are the differences? This post outlines my thoughts from an "everyday consumer".

2018-04-16T00:00:00.000Z 16th April 2018

Mike builds a bike

Progress of a bike build

2018-03-19T00:00:00.000Z 19th March 2018

Why we're not dropping Slack for Google Hangouts Chat...yet.

Written For Liquid Light

At the beginning of this month, Google announced they were rolling out Hangouts Chat to all users of Google Suite over a week or so. Our suite was finally updated ...

2018-03-08T00:00:00.000Z 8th March 2018

How I wrote a book; the writing process from one of our Developers

Written For Liquid Light

In 2017, one of our front-end developers wrote and released a book about the JavaScript library; Vue.js. This blog post explains the process he went through to get the book from his mind to print.

2017-05-18T00:00:00.000Z 18th May 2017

Render Conf 30th March 2017 - A review

Written For Liquid Light

On 30th March, I took the many trains over the many hours required to get to Oxford from Brighton and attended Render Conf. In it’s second year, this conference ...

2016-08-02T00:00:00.000Z 2nd August 2016

How we use Trello to keep track of our marketing schedule

Written For Liquid Light

Trello is a great tool which lets you easily manage projects. Ranging from websites to weddings, Trello helps you create tag and move cards. At Liquid Light, we use Trello to keep track of our marketing output - this blog explains how.

2016-01-29T00:00:00.000Z 29th January 2016

My Dream: Multi-room audio with Chromecast and central music server

I have been searching for a solution to my problem for a while now and I have had no luck - so i'm putting it out to the masses to ...

2016-01-25T00:00:00.000Z 25th January 2016

YouTube videos vs self-hosted: Which one is better for you?

Written For Liquid Light

We are often asked whether videos for your website should be uploaded and hosted on your own website and server or if they should be uploaded to a social website ...

2015-12-03T00:00:00.000Z 3rd December 2015

Let's drop IE8

Written For Liquid Light

For website creators, making sure a website looks good across device and browsers is our biggest challenge. Websites don’t have to look the same, but they do have to ...

2015-04-30T00:00:00.000Z 30th April 2015

Using Slack to Improve Team Communication

Written For Liquid Light

Slack is a hugely popular communication team tool which has grown from strength to strength over the last year. It was publicly released in February 2014 and has recently been valued ...

2014-12-15T00:00:00.000Z 15th December 2014

HTML Newsletters - Design Considerations

Written For Liquid Light

HTML emails are a great way of keeping your customers up-to-date, but are not as versatile as web pages. Here's our list of things to consider when designing and building HTML emails.

2014-06-19T00:00:00.000Z 19th June 2014

10 moments I hate about cycling

Evans Cycles blogged "10 Moments Every Cyclist Hates" and before I had even read the blog, plenty of moments popped into my head - these are my top 10

2013-02-15T00:00:00.000Z 15th February 2013

Starting Afresh, Starting Anew

So like my good friends Anthony and Kris, I've realised how little i've blogged over the last year. Looking at my archive the last 6 months of 2012 played host to just 1 ...

2012-08-29T00:00:00.000Z 29th August 2012

Start Your Own Event

Written For .net magazine

This article first appeared in issue 230 of .net magazine – the world's best-selling magazine for web designers and developers. Conferences are great. You get to meet fantastic people, you learn ...

2012-07-19T00:00:00.000Z 19th July 2012

I hate road cycling

Road cycling. Its boring. Its rubbish. Most road cyclists just go round in circles. Up to the top of a hill, turn round and back again - wash, rinse, repeat.

2012-07-11T00:00:00.000Z 11th July 2012

Future of Web Design - May 2012 - Day 1

In the middle of May, I attended my first big web conference – the Future of Web Design. I’ve been to a few small-scale conferences before, but never one but never one of the big boys

2012-05-16T00:00:00.000Z 16th May 2012

I bloody love twitter

I bloody love twitter. It's great. Now, I'm not some twitter addict or nerd, well I am, but that's by the by.

2012-02-26T00:00:00.000Z 26th February 2012

Dahon Vitesse Speed D7

Whenever I am thinking about making a significant purchase, I always hunt around for reviews, check out blogs and generally search the web for word, be it good or bad.

2012-02-16T00:00:00.000Z 16th February 2012

My Favourite 5 Books - A smashing story

Recently I've been going through a fad of buying web related books. I love the feel of books, I love reading books.

2012-02-04T00:00:00.000Z 4th February 2012

The Commute: The Rant

I’ve been commuting for nearly a year now. Proper commuting that is. Getting up at some unearthly hour to sit on a train for a bit. Living in a ...

2011-03-16T00:00:00.000Z 16th March 2011

Public Relations

Sometimes I wish we lived in a musical. Not not necessarily with all the singing but just with all that general happiness.

2010-04-22T00:00:00.000Z 22nd April 2010

Twitter; Twettle

Just a short note on my Twitter series of posts! I thought i'd let you know about this tweeting kettle...or Twettle (seeing as it is on the title..). I ...

2010-04-21T00:00:00.000Z 21st April 2010

Twitter; Twintergration

Twitter, Twitter Twitter. How you have taken over the world? (And my life?) I have recently properly got into Twitter. Before it was just a laborious update to show I ...

2010-04-20T00:00:00.000Z 20th April 2010

Covers and Remixes

I have always been a music fan. Playing violin from the age of 7 and progressing onto guitar, the musical world has always intrigued me.

2009-01-29T00:00:00.000Z 29th January 2009

Geeks

I feel geeks are somewhat underestimated in the continuum of time and space. But, in reality, they are amazing. I'm not ashamed to admit I'm a geek.

2009-01-28T00:00:00.000Z 28th January 2009

To Know or Not To Know

Knowledge is a powerful thing. I can turn worlds into war, it can turn people to power, and it can turn children to critics, humans into inhabitants. Its one of ...

2009-01-27T00:00:00.000Z 27th January 2009

Thoughts...

Thoughts are someone’s heart, someone’s soul, someone’s hero trapped inside the body of their worshiper, their disciple, and their devotee. Thoughts can make someone’s day, someone ...