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Earlier this week I was asked to give some thoughts to what keeps me awake at night thinking about the church and AI.

Recently I found myself with the problem after set up a second account on BitBucket; I had a personal account, and now required a separate work account.

Throughout the hackathon last month Bill Shaw spent the 24 hours interviewing and following some of the participants as they worked on the different hackathon challenges and projects.

When I switched this site across to Eleventy I left myself with a to-do list which I’ve slowly been working through- one of them was to re-implement the RSS feed.

Of course there is the obligatory chapter facing the question ‘is it okay for Christians to watch Game of Thrones, or insert any other controversial topic?’

In The Gospel Comes with a House Key, Rosaria Butterfield shows through part autobiography, part Bible teaching why hospitality isn’t an optional extra in the Christian life, but an essential part, and what living it looks like in her family life.

In Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belonging to all the others.

Kingdom Code BUILD is part of a global set of hackathons hosted by Indigitous.

Last year Dan Rackham came to BUILD with an idea that had been mulling in the back of his mind for a while, and now a year on GoChatter Custom Videos is up and running, working with a number of ministries and churches including Thy Kingdom Come and Christ…

At Kingdom Code we want to explore how the technical skillsets that God has given us can be used for His glory and serve His church.

I am a magpie for technology, old or new I just seem to hoard it.

Every Sunday, seven year-old James came home from church with a new memory verse.

⚠️ This post is not how I do things any more The official Images plugin from Eleventy is great, and solves all my responsive image needs.

At this time of year it can feel that The Globe Church changes a lot.

Last Sunday, our church family commissioned Jonny Miller as a new elder.

Years ago a friend told me “ideas are cheap.

Years ago a friend told me “ideas are cheap.

The gospel isn’t something that we want to hoard for ourselves.

In the 1960’s voice assistants were the thing of science fiction.

I’ve been writing blog posts (of varying quality) since 2006.

Have you ever had that issue on your Apple Mac where the play/pause keys seem to be temperamental.

It’s been a while since I wrote a blog post… it’s been on my mind to get back into writing words in order for a a few months now.

Getting to know you As a church team, you’ve been talking about it for a while… that old, dated website that you’ve had so for so long has got to the stage of embarrassment.

Can you remember a time when you were listening to a sermon and it really hit exactly in the situation that you were facing?

Kingdom Code: Build is about gathering a people together who love to think about technology, design and build.

I’ve got a confession to make… I don’t think I actually read any of the books on my university reading list.

On Wednesday at Globe Focus we started out on a new series of small group studies in the book of Psalms.

Bad customer experience is awful.

I woke up on the day of the Brexit result on an air bed on the floor of a friend's apartment in Boston, MA.

Perhaps you saw in the tech news a month ago Microsoft’s PR mishap — “Tay, Microsoft’s AI chatbot, gets a crash course in racism from Twitter”.

Today is Good Friday.

Back in 2006 when I owned my first (and last) iPod* I started to listen to a couple of podcasts, I listened for a few weeks and then got bored of them, so stopped listening to podcasts.

This happened. 120 people showed up. 16 projects were hacked on.

This post was originally written for Christians in the Media (Formerly the MediaNet).

In a recent project, in an effort to reduce HTTP requests, I have been inlining various icons into my CSS via base64 encoding.

After the LastPass security breach in June I've been meaning to change my method of securing my passwords.

The V&A has a wealth of creative talent within its walls, one of these areas is within the artists in residency program.

I’ve just discovered that the animate function within jQuery can provide more than just visual animation.

As a Christian, Easter is a time of celebration for myself and my family.

I've just discovered that git:// urls are blocked by internal policy.

Last week I went along to The Story Conference.

It may seem odd for a web developer to attend The Story Conference 2015, a conference about story telling, and as was mentioned at the beginning of the day, it is certainly a difficult event to summarise in one blog post, however for me there were many th…

There are lots of solutions that talk about making a copy of a local folder and sending it to an S3 bucket.

After having a Wordpress blog running for the last year with 320 users posting to it, and over 1500 posts on it I’ve noticed that the database size has been rapidly approaching the 1Gb size.

By default when you request a page’s feed from the Facebook API via /v2.2/[pageid]/feed a lot a JSON is sent back, including very specific data about likes and comment such as who, what, when, etc.

Today I’ve been trying to replicate the content drilldown function from Google Analytics through their Core Reporting API.

It has been a long while since I have had to worry about how much space I have for emails thanks to Gmail giving me a lot of free space.

I was in Oxford last night and snapped this photo of the Radcliffe Camera.

One of the projects I've been involved in at work has been turning the embarrassing Wi-Fi splash screen into something beautiful.

Earlier in the year Andrew Lewis wrote a post going through some of the research he had done looking into the user experience of connecting to public Wi-Fi.