Jun 12, 2021Cost, Value and Self-InvestmentGood morning, Timeboxers. How are you feeling? Have you blocked out your day? I’m writing this late Saturday night but you can see my schedule for Sunday by clicking here. I recently bought an “Ooler”. You may be more familiar with it’s predecessor, the Chilipad, made famous by Tim Ferris…Timeboxing2 min readTimeboxing2 min read
Jun 12, 2021The importance of downtime.Good evening, timeboxers. Today I’d like to talk about downtime and how I integrate it into my productivity system. If you’d like to see my schedule for the day you can click here. When I talk to people about the way in which I’ve tried to design my life, I…Timeboxing2 min readTimeboxing2 min read
Jun 12, 2021How I Stay MotivatedGood afternoon, timeboxers. I hope you’ve all scheduled in a full and exciting day! (If you’d like to see my schedule for the day you can click here). I wanted to share with you something that keeps me pushing myself even when I want to stop. …Productivity2 min readProductivity2 min read
Published inHackerNoon.com·Mar 27, 2018Decouple Deployment from ReleaseIn a lot of organisations, release and deployment happen at the same time. That is to say that the release of a new feature to your user base is triggered by deploying your application to the server. …Software Development3 min readSoftware Development3 min read
Published inHackerNoon.com·Mar 22, 2018Agile Theatre is Doing More Damage Than Waterfall Ever Did.Every company moving from a primarily waterfall-driven process to an agile mindset has a transitional period. It’s inevitable. This transitional period is usually punctuated by confusion, anger and a lot of mistakes with the self-appointed company agile aficionado screaming “Don’t panic! This is how it’s supposed to work!”. This period…Agile3 min readAgile3 min read
Published inHackerNoon.com·Sep 14, 20175 Small Steps to a Better Web APIOne of my favourite things to do as a web developer is design and build Single Page Apps. This means that I work very closely with Web APIs on a fairly regular basis. I have even designed Web APIs myself with varying degrees of success. There are a lot of…API4 min readAPI4 min read
Published inHackerNoon.com·Aug 15, 2017Designing better CSS with a single stepCSS preprocessors like SASS and Less gave us a whole slew of new syntax designed to reduce computer-reproducible bloat within our style sheets. We got variables for our colours and dimensions, we got loops for our grid systems and complicated typographic boiler plates and we got selector nesting for syntactic…CSS5 min readCSS5 min read
Jun 14, 2017The best code is someone else’s problemPossibly my favourite thing about modern Javascript is something that I often seem maligned by other programmers. I don’t understand how such an awesome feature can get so much vitriol. Its sole purpose is to remove the burden of extra cognitive load from us lowly developers and (at least partially)…JavaScript3 min readJavaScript3 min read
Jun 12, 2017Why I Chose React Over VueHave you noticed my overly diplomatic title? It’s an attempt to frame this conversation in terms of what I prefer rather than what I believe to be objectively better in hope of diverting a flame war. I imagine it will not work. React and Vue are ostensibly very similar and…JavaScript3 min readJavaScript3 min read
Apr 18, 2017What I’ve Learnt from Business BooksI have a guilty secret. I enjoy business books. I’m not talking about high-level economics tomes here, I’m talking about books that tell you, as an individual, how to “make it big” (side note: I have yet to make it big). For the record, some of these books are actually…Entrepreneurship4 min readEntrepreneurship4 min read
