How to tell if your cat is plotting to take over the world
Thursday 26th of February 2015
Cat is elusive and rarely seen around house. When cat is discovered, immediately pretends to be 'sleeping'.
Read moreThings that happened today
Monday 23rd of February 2015
Today I invented a new phrase, witnessed a car accident, and discovered that there are still some nice people left in the world.
Read moreDealing with bad front end code
Thursday 12th of February 2015
I've worked on a lot of websites and seen a lot of front end code. Some good, some bad. Some... really bad.
More often than I'd like, I encounter the same patterns of badness. Here's a few examples of the kind of things that some front end developers do that drive me to despair. Warning: this is going to get technical.
Read moreNot letting almost complete ignorance of the subject matter get in the way of a bit of Harry Potter fan fiction
Monday 26th of January 2015
Harry frowned, and scratched at his beard. He was a wizard, after all, so it stood to reason that he had a beard. Wizards had beards. Long white flowing ones, usually. It showed their age, maturity, and general wizardly-ness. Otherwise they wouldn't really be wizards, they'd just be some kind of teenage wannabe wizards, gazing at the world through a witless and pre-pubescent haze, stumbling through misadventures and accidentally overcoming villains and plots. And that wouldn't be interesting at all.
Read moreHow websites become difficult to maintain
Friday 9th of January 2015
Right, enough games and code and experiments. Time for some good ol' fashioned web development rambling.
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