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Everything you've ever wanted to know about sound, and things you didn't know you wanted to know but are glad you learned, such as: why all film trailers sound the same with that deep "booj" noise how NASA ran live audio from the Moon how the language in…

Last year's roundup post was good fun, so I decided I'd do another one this year!

As engineers it can be unclear where we’re heading, especially when we’re heads down writing code all the time.

When I tell people I’m in a choir, some of them imagine the same thing: churches, robes and choral music.

I've been making this "Bonfire Brownies" recipe since it was aired on UK children's TV institution Blue Peter in the early 00s, and I maintain it's still the best brownie recipe.

I scheduled this post, isn't that cute?

I mentioned recently that I'd built separate RSS feeds for different kinds of posts.

Recently I've been inspired by folks like Michelle Barker and Amy Hupe doing National Blog Posting Month (NaBloPoMo!)

If I need to impress, or bribe people to like me, I make these cookies.

I wasn't particularly enthused by the alpha release of Vercel's v0 UI generation tool this week.

Michael Hobbes and Peter Shamshiri take us through some of the biggest "self-help"/pseudoscience books from the last few decades and deservedly tear them apart.

I had the absolute privilege of opening Beyond Tellerrand Düsseldorf recently.

I'm not very good at being bad at things.

Inspired by Robb Knight I want to build my own /now page.

I'm still sad about Twitter.

I don't usually do these end-of-year reflection posts, but at a time where I feel like I'm finally starting to hit flat land again after a year of climbing hills, it seems like a nice thing to do, and a way for me to reflect on my own achievements.

I've been speaking at conferences and meetups on and off for nearly five years now, and a few people have asked me what the process is for preparing a talk.

Edit May 2023: the Bridgy integration with Twitter no longer works due to Twitter shutting off API access so some functionality won't be working any more!

Three years ago I wrote a post called Everything I googled in a week as a professional software engineer, and it clearly resonated with people, because it went pretty viral.

Hey internet!

It's Easter and I'm off work til the end of the month.

If you're an early-career developer, Twitter is overflowing with people tweeting great tips – and some absolute rubbish – about how to improve your skills and become better at your job.

I've come across a lot of websites in my career (and in daily browsing) that are straight-up inaccessible.

This is a series started by Colin Devroe.

I started writing this post a few days ago, and was so exhausted I couldn't actually be bothered to finish it, which tells you a lot really.

In an ideal world, being "good at accessibility" wouldn't make you stand out from the crowd.

I spent an entire day last week wrestling with a PDF-rendering library in React which was refusing to work in production.

Now in its 11th year, ffconf is one of the biggest events in the conference calendar for web developers across the UK (and further afield).

Update 15/10/2022: I've written a new version of this!

Tech job interviews are often different flavours of the same thing, regardless of where you apply.

When you're talking about what you're working on, do you ever stop to think about what you're saying and whether the person you're talking to can actually understand it?