How to preload Google Fonts using resource hints
19 May 2018
TLDR: you shouldn’t. But you can. Here’s how.
Avoid showing same WordPress post in multiple loops
11 November 2017
Avoid showing duplicate WordPress posts when you have multiple loops in the page. This is a really neat solution.
Use RequireJS with WordPress (plugins) & jQuery (UI)
19 June 2016
I recently found myself really wanting to use RequireJS with WordPress, to manage the various JavaScript dependencies a client site had. Unfortunately, this was easier said than done. WordPress is historically not very compatible with RequireJS, as it provides jQuery and a myriad of other JavaScript files out of the box, which are difficult to… [Read More]
The discipline of ‘good enough’
06 October 2016
As a perfectionist, by definition, something is only ‘good enough’ if it is perfect. I really struggle to live with untested code, or shoddy code, or duplicated code. I come from a world where code can be beautiful, and code is the thing I have complete control over; something I understand and can make better through… [Read More]
Localised CSS
04 February 2015
Localised CSS is the only long-term, maintainable responsive development methodology for large-scale websites developed by multiple teams.
The five-line rule
29 January 2015
I run with a metaphor far too much to try to explain a programming principle I think more developers should adhere to.
How to differentiate between links
16 April 2014
When you visit a new website and are about to click on a hyperlink, do you know what is about to happen? In the early days of the internet, a link was just a link. You’d click it and be taken to a new page. Nowadays, clicking on a link can trigger any number of… [Read More]
Stupidly Simple Programming – Introduction
04 July 2013
A lot of my friends and family have not got the faintest idea of what Software Engineering entails. Are you one of those people? If I tell you I’m a programmer, do you think that it has something to do with Google, or Microsoft Word, or hard drives or Windows or gigabytes? If you can’t… [Read More]
Redesigning IP Datagrams for a faster internet
03 April 2012
Recently our first year computer science department had a lecture on IP Datagrams. While people were Facebooking and falling asleep around me, I paid attention. It’s definitely worth learning the science behind data transfer over the internet or we risk being locked in to a consumerist bubble, where we’ve all been trained to use obscolete… [Read More]