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Photo editing using Gemini Ten examples of photos edited using the new Nano Banana model from Google Gemini.

The enshittification of UK supermarkets UK supermarkets have transformed simple shopping into a data-harvesting nightmare.

AI-assisted coding is the electric-assisted cycling of software development My premise here is that electric bikes don't just make cycling easier for existing cyclists—for many people they make cycling possible.

Same news, different views: The BBC's design at home and abroad Around a year ago I noticed that the BBC news site had updated their article format—and I really liked the new look.

Why Product Managers need to embrace the tech After 16 years as a Product Manager, I share my thoughts on why technical knowledge is highly beneficial for product managers.

Learning log: 2024 My 2024 learning goals and resources.

Visualising my daily constitutionals (walks) The result of my attempt to build a calendar heatmap from scratch with HTML, CSS, and JS.

Bring back the daily constitutional After discovering the concept of the daily constitutional recently while reading Sherlock Holmes, I think it's a phrase (and practice) that deserves a comeback.

Learning log: 2023 My focus this year was meant to be SQL & Python, but it ended up being mostly JavaScript, and then of course, like everyone else, I got a bit distracted by Generative AI.

Introduction To celebrate our 20th wedding anniversary the wife and I spent two weeks in Canada during late September 2023.

Background I hadn't written an article for quite some time, so decided to write about the View Transitions feature that has been added (behind a feature flag) to Google Chrome.

Background If you're reading this then you are probably already aware of the upcoming new CSS feature: text-wrap: balance; If not, then please visit the Chrome dev blog for the full details.

The benefits RSS can be a valuable tool for Product Managers.

Background I recently created my first HTML tables for my Learning Log 2022 article.

Putting the numbers into context A lot of articles have been written recently that discuss Air India's record-breaking order of new Airbus and Boeing aircraft.

Background Inspiration for this chart came from the recent infographic on VisualCapitalist.com which visualises the world’s top 25 fleets of combat tanks (they specifically state “combat” tanks, which intrigues me, are there tanks designed for the daily c…

Background Inspiration for the first chart came from the recent infographic on VisualCapitalist.com which displays the share of men versus the share of women among smokers (across the world's 50 most populous countries).

2022 goals My primary learning goal for 2022 was to gain a deeper understanding of the online presentation of unstructured content.

Background If you are reading this in an RSS reader, although the full article is included below, the source article has a better comparison of the original and restored photos which cannot be replicated here (as it uses JavaScript) "Zoom and enhance!"

Background I started to build this website in January 2021 with the aim of teaching myself HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Background During February 2022 OnlyRSS.org became a Progressive Web App (PWA).

Background For the first 13 years of my career I worked as a research scientist for the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA, an agency of the UK's MoD).

I recently created a subscribe page (which can be reached from the RSS link on the homepage).

Stacked bar charts For the purpose of this article I'm going to be using a real world example, specifically a stacked bar chart designed to show the number of aircraft of each type e.g 737-800, A320-200 etc. in an Airline's fleet, categorised by the aircr…

If you are reading this in an RSS reader, you might want to visit the actual blog, as the article refers to style elements that won't appear in your RSS reader.

If you are reading this in your RSS Reader, then well done, RSS is cool, and therefore, by extension, so are you!.

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Background I bought my Concept 2 Model C rower in 2001, my plan (like most people who buy exercise equipment) was to use it every week.

Background Whether you work in data science, data analytics, finance, strategy, user experience, sales, marketing, or product, at some point you will be creating data visualisations, either for use externally (in your products and on social media), or int…

What is RSS?

Excaliwhatnow?

I recently wrote about my weekday lockdown routine.

Prior to lockdown Prior to lockdown, I used to work from 4 different locations: Bishopsgate (round trip commute ≈ 3hrs, car, train, tube, walk) Heathrow (round trip commute ≈ 2hrs, car) Sutton (round trip commute ≈ 2.5-3.5hrs, car) Home (0hrs) My start ti…

A typical day On any typical workday I might have the following applications open on my PC: Tasks (Outlook for Web), Agenda (Outlook for Web), Email (Outlook for Web), MS Teams (chats and meetings), Journal (Excel, where I document my activities), WhatsApp

I've been using RSS feeds to aggregate web content for almost 20 years.