Ian Thomas

What helps (and what doesn't) when the organisation around you is changing and you can't do much about it.

Research shows AI coding agents break 15-30% more often on messy code.

A look behind the scenes at how QCon tracks are curated, from designing the narrative and recruiting speakers to supporting them through to the day itself.

How async AI workflows helped me resurrect a decade-old side project without being glued to my laptop.

Another QCon event, the first back in New York since 2019, and my first time as a conference Co-Chair

As a dynamic programming language with a preference for coercion, JavaScript has a reputation for allowing us to do some odd things with unintended consequences.

Social Media has proven its longevity and now is starting to demonstrate its ability to change the way we live and work.

At Ticket Arena I have been helping to create a unified UI Library using React and while the component based approach is brilliant for building websites, it som...

React offers many features to assist developers, including a great suite of validators for checking the props set for a component are as expected.

Notes on what UI Engineering might look like from my time leading the Bet Tribe UI Engineering team at Sky Bet

Perhaps “New Adventures” is the wrong phrase as I’m now well into my third month of this particular endeavour, but sticking with the theme I’m pleased to announ...

Yesterday saw the second New Adventures in Web Design, organised by Simon Collison (Colly) and Greg Wood.

If you are anything like me you often find yourself pondering the best way to get something done.

As part of an upcoming pitch I have been working away from my computer to remove internet distractions and open myself up to more creative thinking.

Supatronix celebrated 7 years of broken beats and bass this year and for their birthday artwork they wanted something special.

After playing some more with a particle engine I'd written, I started to wonder what would happen if I drew using the particles as anchor points.

Above is some artwork that I've been creating using Flash, AS3 and the HYPE Framework.

My job title at [Coolpink](http://www.coolpink.net/ "Coolpink") is 'Web Designer' and though my role has developed over time to incorporate Flash design and dev...

The iPhone started it, the iPad carried it on and now it seems that the revised T's & C's from Apple have really fired the whole Apple vs.

A proof of concept for an Augmented Reality Christmas Tree, built with FLARManager and Papervision3D.

Next week marks my first full year in a digital agency and also my first full year working with Flash.