beeps’ blog

As of writing, I have the particular privilege of working on open source code as a full-time, salary-paying job.

Today marks 60 years since the official premiere of Star Trek, the cult classic television programme about an, at the time, unusually diverse cast of folks exploring space in the not-so-distant future.

For a long time now, the primary logo of my websites has been a kind of animal head with a gear inside of it.

The somewhat belated third (and probably final part) in my mini series about web form design.

Update (2026-09-08): I’ve since given this thing a proper name and domain name: Battenburg.

It’s a bank holiday, so have a cheap and easy blog post whilst I spend the day doing other stuff.

The second in my mini series about web form design.

Forms have existed since 1677, when the outlaw Jonathan Formsby decided to extort money by leaving blank spaces on a piece of parchment and coercing the landed gentry into writing illicit personal details into the spaces at blunderbuss-point.

What started optimistically as the Year of Health (in the eat healthy, exercise more sense) ended up turning into a bit of a Year of Health Hell with not one, but three new chronic conditions added to the list of ailments I’m probably going to be managing…

Can we get straight to the point here?

Back in January, I did a little bit of renovating in the open, during which I stripped things back and changed a bunch of things around over a period of a few weeks.