Damian Walsh

This morning I shook off a bit of low-level anxiety and broke a stubborn habit by going to an in-person conference in Leeds.

I've always enjoyed reading end-of-year summaries—you know the kind, where actual people reflect on what they've read, watched, listened to, or been otherwise occupied with over the year.

At the end of 2024, a period of reflection on my professional life and relationship with technology—from both sides of the glass: as a user and sometime worker in the industry—led me to start this digital garden project as a way to reconnect with work I f…

When I first built and released the latest iteration of this website with Eleventy in January 2025, my workflow went something like this: to make changes, I would run the dev server locally with npm run dev, then when I was happy, I'd trigger a build with…

Building on my experience creating a digital music library with Eleventy and APIs, I wanted to apply similar principles and lessons learned to organise my book collection.

Back in December 2024, while I was doing the usual end-of-year contemplation, Spotify's annual Wrapped feature arrived, ringing a bell in my mind.

Designers often seem to face extremes when selecting and using colours.

Last year was a weird one—in fact, it's more accurate to say the entire period since the COVID-19 pandemic has been a distinctly odd time.