A personal blog transitioning into an exploration of the intersection of design, technology and ethics
Parkrun is a wonderful, community led event held in parks and public spaces all around the world. But what if you actually just hate humanity whilst wanting to get some fresh air each week at around 9am on a Saturday? Here are some handy tips: Got any others? Add them in the comments!
Many have argued that WordPress s Gutenberg blocks were the way forward. In fact, I remember a conversation with colleagues back in 2014, debating whether blocks were the future and if we should build such a system ourselves. But there was a problem. We knew that doing it well would be incredibly hard. There are key...
AI, through the current set of large language models, is a wonderful tool. But like all powerful tools, it must be wielded with care and intelligence. One thing I’ve noticed is that people, instead of coming up with some simple needs, have taken to over-egging their requirements. Instead of “let’s do some marketing” you get...
We had a problem over at Design Week recently. The server was groaning a little bit and a huge amount of bandwidth being eaten up. On investigation, it seemed to be a bot that was stuck in a loop, reading the same content again and again and again. Always the same handful of URLs. This...
I was watching the recent discussion and failed negotiations between Zelenskyy, Trump and JD Vance at the White House. It went badly. For everybody. And I think that the set up could only have gone badly. It also reminded me of a few excellent relationships I ve had with customers and/or suppliers which have been spoiled by...
Lately, the WordPress community and even the broader web community has spent a lot of time thinking about WordPress and what might happen with respect to a fork. All largely kicked off by the huge spat Matt Mullenweg has had with WP Engine that has already resulted in legal action against him, which he is...
I m going to cut straight to it. 2024 wasn t easy for me in business. In life it was good. I ve continued with feeling healthy after my heart issues in fact, it marked five years since I had my heart attack. I had a few key takeaways to note down: No matter how nice a...
Bit of a disclaimer I m not a music critic by trade. But I am someone who survived a heart attack. So I have some skin in this game. I also didn t go expecting to be writing a review, but as it seems nobody else has done one I couldn t let this go. Yesterday I...
Car design isn t for the faint hearted it s a high stakes world where hundreds of millions are spent on design, development, preparing production, passing regulations, and driving demand. And you can only do safe and evolutionary designs if your customers are buying those things. Jaguar, bless it, has always struggled to make money ...
In recent times I ve started to find myself more and more interested in stepping away from success. Successful teams, people, companies. I don t mean people who are likely to be like you and me. I mean the big bosses, the billionaires, the Premier League teams the winners. I m just tired. I ve watched the world s richest...