Misc

Rebecca purple

• November 20, 2024

The community for the CSS-Next repository recently had a vote to decide on a new official logo. The colour chosen for the new logo was rebeccapurple. This colour was introduced to the CSS specification in 2014.

Are reviews broken?

• November 12, 2024

A mobile app developer was frustrated recently by receiving a one star review for their application.

The new rollercoaster king

• November 5, 2024

How do you start to design a new rollercoaster? How do you make it different and more memorable than those before it? And how do you end up doing it when you are only 27?

Relive the Apollo 11 lunar landing

• September 2, 2024

I was not old enough to remember the first man on the moon - in fact I wasn’t even born until the following year.

One Life

• January 5, 2024

For the first time in ages we had a family night at the cinema to see the film “One Life”. It is unusual for my wife and I to agree on a film to watch, let alone the kids as well!

Piling and Organisation

• January 1, 2024

I enjoy doing jigsaws once a year, over the Christmas period.

Simple tips can make a difference

• December 5, 2023

When I grew up I had an old 35mm Praktica camera that was given to me. I purchased some lenses for it and mostly used it to take pictures of the Somerset cricket matches I went to watch.

Abstract art

• November 26, 2023

I have never understood abstract art. I have tried.

I am not a big art lover but when I have viewed art I tend to be at the photo-realistic end as, to me, that shows the skill of the artist.

Public/Private keys introduction

• June 30, 2023

I recently had to try and explain to some non-technical colleagues how part of our system works. This involved giving them a very quick overview of public/private key cryptography. So I thought I would summarise it here.

The Online Safety "Bull"

• June 29, 2023

Imagine you wanted to send a message to a friend. The message has sensitive information so you want to send it securely.

The best and worst

• June 22, 2023

I have been to see two musicals in London in the last few months - one was the best and one was the worst I have ever seen.

Start of the Ashes

• June 16, 2023

I watched a day, well some of a day, of Ashes cricket between England and Australia in 1989.

End of an era

• May 22, 2023

“There’s something that the Kop wants you to know

The best in the world, his name is Bobby Firmino

Prototyping is not always coding

• May 10, 2023

Part of my current role is prototyping new features and algorithms to determine if and how they will work. It’s nice to do some hands on coding still.

The space elevator

• April 28, 2023

This is a beautiful interactive webpage to illustrate the height/altitude of different things and how a potential future space elevator would relate to them.