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I’m switching up from the auto-generated now page; to some hybrid approach.

Advantages (as I see them).

At work I’m in and out of many repos over the course of a day… and I’m bad at closing window.

On Sunday my wife and I had the joy, together with The Globe Church family, of dedicating our son.

This morning MacRumors posted a PSA that Bartender was under new ownership.

I’ve recently needed to get my head around Sharepoint… as someone who has spent most of their time in Google Workspace this is a whole new world to me!

Earlier this week, Twilio publically announced that Authy would be ending their Windows, Linux, and MacOS apps.

Outlook, Google Calendar, Apple Calendar have functionality that allow you to subscribe to calendar feeds; add the URL of the feed, and then it will appear (and update) automatically in your calendar.

Over the last year I’ve been giving the Discipleship Tech team a little bit of help on the project management side of things.

I had an idea yesterday to pull the last commit detail from the git repo for this site and put it as an HTML comment so I can identify deploy issues quickly.

May 2026 Update: Age of Empires 2 is now runs on MacOS; just download it from Steam.

The Christmas holidays have begun, which means that I have a bit of time to tinker… I can’t remember when I stopped using Google Analytics, but it was probably when I moved across to using Eleventy.

There’s been a trend floating around the blogosphere this month looking at the default apps people are using… I like that.

In some research and development time I’ve been exploring some of the technology behind ChatGPT, and pulling on different contexts for uses of it.

If you have a Conversational Action Continue the conversation Now is the time to let your customer base know what is happening.

At the moment view transitions are still being implemented, but it doesn’t mean that you can’t get ahead of the curve and experiment with them.

On a recent Eleventy project I needed a calendar of upcoming events.

I’m keeping my account open… I’ll even log in every now and again to keep the account appearing active because I don’t want my username to vanish.

This weekend I’ve been implementing automatically generated opengraph images for blog posts as a quick experiment for a side project I’ve been planning.

BUILD 2022 was our seventh year coming together for a weekend of work, merging our tech skills with our Christian faith.

We’ve been building for the Google Assistant platform, creating experiences that users can access from devices such as phones and home hubs.

Chrome likes to steal your media keys - the play/pause buttons on your keyboard and then map them through to YouTube, or similar media.

On a recent project I’ve been experimenting with adding Airtable as a content management system for Eleventy (11ty).

Bowtie is an app that I’ve been using pretty much since I switched to running a Mac.

Today I had the challenge of wiping a Slack workspace/team of all the chat history.

As the whole ‘working-from-home’ thing became a thing the built in camera on my laptop decided that it was a good time to die.

“I’m already sick of the term hybrid” one of my friends told me over the weekend; “I’m hearing it so much at the moment”.

Ahead of the launch of Stewardship launching their new CauseFinder tool I spoke with Joel Leakey about how Jesus is a technologist.

Over the last week I’ve been dealing with a number of issues relating to SSL certs; one discovery where the SSL cert expired yesterday, another standard update of a SSL cert, and then the fun of swapping from one server to another with different certs.

In just under 25 pages, Sara Schumacher, Director of Education at St.

It’s been on my list to get a good archive page of blog posts for a while, [1] more than just simple pagination where you have to click though posts in groups of six at a time… Instead grouped by the year they were published.

Even before national lockdowns, and our interactions with the world being mediated through screens, we have been interacting with artificial intelligence every day.

Over at OneSheep we’ve just launched the new website for Carnelian Search.

While there are many good things about owning a MacBook, the keyboards in the 2017 model are not one of them!

Books about leadership have a bad tendency to be dense; dry and hard work to read, and that’s before you get to the unobtainable objectives such as like read a book before you’ve lifted your head from the pillow in the morning.

2023 update This tutorial works nicely playing Age of Empires 2: HD Edition on an Intel based Mac… You’ll have no luck with Definitive Edition, or running on Apple Silicon macs using this guide.

I’ve recently had the interesting time of setting up a new Google Workspace (formerly GSuite) install.

I was recently invited to give a 15 minute talk to a group of church worker about how data can equip and resource a church to be a church that is more productive, more pastoral, and more prayerful.

One of the requirements of a classic brochureware website these days is animated elements that fade into view as the visitor scrolls to the website.

I think that Trello is up there in my favourite online tools.

Our last message to you was to let you know we were in a time of waiting.

In the coming weeks and months ahead in this Insights section we’re going to be posting a few tips and tricks that we’ve discovered as we have been building sites for our partners.

Back in 2018 when I migrated the site from Codeigniter to Eleventy Gulp was very firmly in my toolbox.

The Second of May was due to have been our wedding day.

A month into lockdown and we’re beginning to stablise - there is more of an understanding of how our lives work now.

Over the last two weeks at The Globe Church we’ve been in the Psalms of Ascent, the songs that the Isralites sing as they ascent to the temple of the Lord in Jerusalem.

As we face further into lockdown of the UK, our churches have embraced livestreaming as a way of keeping in touch with our church families.

In light of Covid-19 and lots of churches moving their services online I had a chat with CCLI and PRS for music around the legalities of live streaming the sung worship in your church.

As the government encourages us to reduce the amount of social interaction, now is the perfect time for the Kingdom Code community to serve the local church.

Every so often I find myself with a JPG logo that I really want an SVG for… It’s a pain because the JPG just won’t scale for web or print work.