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I got asked today why I was applying to attend two different conferences this year.

Published on Monday, 8 April 2019 , originally at https://www.creativebloq.com People are demanding more and more out of their online services, and businesses strive to excel these demands, leading to more and more complex sites ... and larger JavaScript…

We've all done it.

CSS isn't a programming language.

Today was a stressful day.

I opened last year's post by stating what a rollercoaster it had been for me.

Structuring components in a reusable, discoverable way is a challenge across teams with diverse requirements.

Twenty Eighteen was a whirlwind of changes for me professionally.

Originally published in print for Net Magazine.

Part of the way through a project to replace an app with a static site generated by Gatsbyjs, initial tests revealed that we there was a lot we could do to improve the performance.

Serverless isn't such a new concept but it is still difficult to understand for many of us.

Structuring components in a reusable, discoverable way has been a challenge for some recent projects I've worked on.

For years, WordPress has been the de facto standard for content authoring on the web.

In case you missed it, here's the article and links to the example code I wrote to help developers get started with Gatsbyjs.

HTML Forms are one of the most fundamental elements in the web builder's toolbox.

I've worked in a few different capacities around the web, and can see the value of interfaces that those writing content for the web feel comfortable using.

Working with a large FinTech organisation has taught me a lot about the potential loopholes and considerations around certain technical decisions that I have been asked to contribute to.

Published on Tuesday, 24 April 2018 I'm not a stranger to public speaking.

One of the great strengths in static site generator Gatsbyjs is it's node API.

In November last year I switched from using Windows at my place of work to using Pop!

As a frontend designer I've always prided myself on being an HTML and CSS specialist.

As a teenager, and on into my twenties, I developed a real affinity for existential philosophy, and really enjoyed reading the works of Kafka, Alain Robbe-Gruillet, Satre, Camus, Samuel Beckett and others.

I don't recall how Peter and I became friends.

For a while now I've really enjoyed tinkering with animations as a way to bring a lot more quality to my projects.

For me, as well as a lot of others, CSS Grid is the most exciting thing to happen since CSS3 ... possibly even CSS2.

I've enjoyed the music of Mike Oldfield since I was about 15.

For a recent project, I was asked to design an animation for a doughnut chart.

One thing I've tried to do more of is to use animations on frontend projects I've been involved with.

Over the past few days, I've moved tech stack entirely for deliciousreverie.co.uk, from reseller hosting using PHP to cloud hosting on AWS by Netlify, and using continuous deployment.

2016 as a year was as unconventional as they come.

Is it just me or does Apple's iCloud seem like a very simple solution to a problem all of us in a connected world face?

A Few weeks ago, I wrote a post about how I was taking a journey through the studio albums of Bob Dylan, starting with his first eponymous album, and discovering new albums and tracks along the way which resonated with me.

I've been in & out of love with Bob Dylan for many years.

A very dear friend introduced me to James Joyce many years ago with his coming-of-age almost-biography, A Portrait of a Young Man, which had a deep impact on me.

Published on Tuesday, 1 November 2016 At a new job I've been tasked with moving to Windows as my main production environment.

Like a lot of things in the web world, CSS is a bit of mess.

I'm one of those guys (coming from a design background) that was terrified of the command line.

I've been working in web development for the past 8 years or so.

Time is precious for me having a kid and a demanding job, so I'm pleased I've managed to find the time to read The City & The City, China Mieville's (very successful) attempt at the crime thriller genre.

I was inspired by Rachel Nabors' site to add a short delay to users' clicking on a link on my website, so that I could add a brief animation that would run before the redirection took place.

I've always been interested in psychology but never went further than college with it.

Using the Srcset attribute on images Published on Friday, 15 January 2016 So, I've been using the relatively new (and somewhat confusing) srcset attribute to serve a couple of interesting use cases lately.

You'll notice that there's not a huge amount of posts about JavaScript on my site.

Although I've really gotten into the SASS revolution, I haven't yet adopted a method for structuring elements of CSS.

Published on Monday, 23 November 2015 I wrote this poem more than 10 years ago, but I've never published it anywhere.

I've been hearing a lot of different, seemingly contradictory messages from the industry in recent weeks regarding frontend frameworks and progressive enhancement.

Workflows and tools are constantly changing.

Writing documentation for new team members - or just to provide a referenceable standard - is hard.

Performance seems to be increasingly becoming a battleground for those of us who create websites.

I can't possibly think I could get away with a post about performancewhen my own site wasn't as spot-on as I could get.