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Cricket is a funny old game. Many find it dreadfully boring, particularly the test variety. To be fair, any game that can be played for five full days and not produce a result does sound like a practical joke that’s gone a bit too far. It’s also a deeply frustrating game to play. It’s a team sport, but one where abject individual failure is almost guaranteed, particularly as a…
Colton Voege has penned an excellent debunk of the 10x AI engineer . Their account of rapidly diminishing returns mirrors my experience with agentic coding. Yes, it can create 10x the code that you or I could create in the same time period, but it certainly can’t create 10x the value or impact. Through lunchtime chats, off-hand comments and a growing number of DM’s, it’s becoming…
A friend shared this tip the other day and it was too useful not to reshare. If you’re a mobile-up kind of developer, it’s easy to forget that max-width media queries are “less than or equal to” by default. It can play havoc with your nice round numbers: @ media ( min-width : 60em ) { /* above and including 60em */ } @ media ( max-width : 59 . 9375em ) { /* below 60em, but…
Mid-year reviews have just come around in the ol' 9-5. It’s an opportunity to reflect on the first six months (H1 if you’re into all that business speak) and set some goals for the end of the year. I personally find the process quite cathartic. Not only does it make the end of year review simpler (I can barely remember what I had for breakfast, let alone what business metrics I…
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If you’re a maker, like I am on the web, you’ll no doubt know the joy and wonder of creating something from scratch . That you can assemble something useful, useless, beautiful or brilliant from a few pixels, phrases or physical objects. To “see the angel in the marble, and carve to set it free” is a feeling unique to those who create. As enshittification increases, and…
Growing up, my family had life membership for the National Trust, and thus, much of my childhood was spent traipsing in leafy gardens and around stately homes. A couple of years ago, before the financial responsibilities/burden (delete as appropriate) of a toddler, we decided to make the same investment. Spreadsheets are a passion of ours, so of course, we began tracking our visits, most…
I recently became the owner of an exciting piece of guitar gear. Well, exciting to me, anyway. Winding back the clock to 2010, I distinctly remember pining after a TC Electronic G-System. It was the guitar effects processor to have; all the pro’s were using it, but I was a poor student and couldn’t come close to affording one. A couple of months ago, I spotted a used one for a very…
In the Motorway brand refresh , I had to build a lot of rounded rectangular & triangular shapes (I don’t know what they’re officially called), and got quite good and understanding the pro’s and con’s of each approach. Depending on your use-case, there’s a few possible options available to you. The filled box The ‘simpler’ use-case is the filled box.…
I’ve had the pleasure of leading the engineering rollout of a pretty exciting brand refresh for Motorway . Called onto the project in early February, the task was to manage and implement the rollout across our entire digital platform. Motorway is a complex car marketplace, with multiple consumer-, dealer-, driver-, and internal-facing products. On March 17th, we successfully and smoothly…