custard doughnuts

I've recently had another blog post published for GOV.UK, titled How and why we removed jQuery from GOV.UK. It was followed shortly by The impact of removing jQuery on our web performance, which relates to the same thing but written by Matt Hobbs (I was given co-author credit but all I did was review it).

I've built a plugin to simulate a flip clock, y'know, like they had back in the days before everything was digital. You can use it as a clock, a timer, or a countdown.

It's become a personal tradition that I try to post something fun around this time each year, perhaps in the form of a small game that I've written. This year's entry isn't particularly seasonal, but it's still worth posting. It's Something Under the Bed, a game I've written while working at Builtvisible.

If you're interested in how it works, read on. Otherwise just see how far through the night you can get. It's deliberately difficult.

Inspired by some work I did recently, I've written a jQuery plugin to display and manipulate digital numbers, including making a clock.

Yes, I've written another plugin. I actually wrote it ages ago (before Plugin Month), but hadn't got around to posting about it because, well, frankly, it wasn't very good. It's now been improved, to the point where I would describe it as 'passable'.

Here then, is another jQuery powered pseudo-3D image carousel plugin. Because there aren't enough of those already.

Just because I've not written enough jQuery plugins lately (hmmm), here's another one. It's based on a plugin that I wrote a few years ago but never properly finished or made public. Here it is - the much improved, no images involved, circular progress indicator.