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All posts (103), mostly on tech and web topics.

• Moving from Gatsby to Astro 24/02/2026 Picking up a new framework for (another) site rewrite

• Advent of Code 2025, day 7: Dynamic programming 28/01/2026 Programming, but dynamically

• LLMs: what are they actually good for? 18/01/2026 Let's look at their characteristics

• Advent of Code 2025, day 3: Monotonic stacks 28/12/2025 Having fun with data structures

• Iterators and lazy arrays 16/11/2025 Comparing the new lazy iterator approach with standard arrays functions

• Procedural art with Rust 01/04/2025 Using Rust to create SVG art via CLI and web, inspired by Advent of Code.

• Creating a chord diagram generator 02/03/2023 How I made a guitar chord generator app

• Static file paths with Actix 19/02/2023 Host HTML and JS files

• Use prebuilt rooms with Rust macros for more interesting procedural dungeons 21/09/2019 Use pre-designed rooms to generate more interesting dungeons.

• Fixing an Adsense 'Valuable inventory No content' error 23/04/2019 How to fix Adsense's mysterious error

• Moving to Gatsby (and Rust) 08/04/2019 Porting my site from Django to a static site with Rust for dynamic bits

• Enable class properties in Gatsby 04/04/2019 Get fun things like arrow functions in classes.

• Creating authentication middleware for Actix API 10/12/2018 Add an authentication middleware layer to Actix so routes can be automatically protected

• Integrate Squidex with Gatsby, and join Graphql queries with foreign keys 22/11/2018 How we linked separate schemas together in Gatsby

• Procedural level generation using Binary Space Partitioning in Rust 26/07/2018 Place rooms around a level using binary space partitions. Part 3.

• Drawing tilemaps with Rust and Cairo 13/07/2018 Draw the procedurally-generated map. Part 2.

• Procedural level generation with Rust 04/07/2018 Create a randomised dungeon-crawler map. Part 1.

• Introducing Rust to our development workflow 03/05/2018 Creating a Webpack plugin with Rust.

• Made With React Native interview 09/01/2018 Fun times with React Native.

• Mock ES6 imports and dependencies for testing in Jest 18/10/2017 Mocking ES6 imports is really useful for being able to test modules.

• Set up proxy on Android devices and Emulators 06/09/2017 Configure Android devices to connect to your local machine to test sites or apps.

• Open iOS simulator to test a website 28/07/2017 Testing time

• Access Docker sites from IE virtual machines 12/07/2017 How many versions of IE do you want?

• Debug React Native Android code 16/06/2017 Link Android Studio to your React Native app.

• Using async and await with React and Redux 07/06/2017 Waiting around

• Vanilla JS equivalent of common jQuery functions 07/06/2017 Props, parents, classes and append equivalents.

• Progressive web-app with Webpack and React 06/06/2017 Offline first

• React context require contextType 25/05/2017 This space left empty

• 52 project ideas to learn a new programming language 18/05/2017 Make your own fun

• Rust snippet - import crate in module 27/04/2017 Declare your externals

• Making Get On With It, a Pomodoro and Tabata timer 30/03/2017 A React-based productivity app.

• Proxy API calls for local development 07/03/2017 Proxy and redirect fun

• Writing a basic JSON response web server in Rust using Iron 24/10/2016 Getting the metal out

• Making the random number picker site 12/10/2016 Randomiser site write up

• Detect clicks outside an element with React components 30/09/2016 Close popups

• Read headers in Javascript from a CORS request 28/09/2016 Cor blimey

• Using Adsense with React 28/09/2016 Update Google's code

• Devlog - Design Decisions 03/08/2016 Runner devlog part 4

• Building asciiPicture.com 28/07/2016 Create a text version of an image in your browser.

• Improving React performance by optimising components 11/07/2016 Speeding up React

• Getting to the bottom of a Rust bug 10/06/2016 Chasing bugs around

• Upgrading a static site to use HTTP/2 11/05/2016 Adding HTTP2 support to Nginx

• Mocking ES6 imports for tests 06/05/2016 Testing can be fun too

• Logging client Javascript errors 29/04/2016 Send your errors away

• Creating React components with ES6 classes 20/04/2016 ES6: so hot right now

• React Inline Styles 06/04/2016 All about style

• Devlog - Shaders, sound and standalone 08/03/2016 Runner devlog part 3

• Devlog - Powerups, particles, pictures 21/02/2016 Runner devlog part 2

• Scale Phaser 2 games to fit screen 11/02/2016 Zoom! Enhance!

• RGB to Hex colour converter 10/02/2016 Translate colour formats.

• Squash git commits using rebase 04/02/2016 Rewrite history

• Change address bar colour in Chrome on Android 03/02/2016 Colours in Chrome.

• Building a runner game with Phaser.js 02/07/2015 Runner devlog part 1

• Finding placeholder styles using the Shadow DOM 06/05/2015 Pseudo elements a-plenty

• Lazy load Youtube videos 28/02/2015 Only load videos on click

• Deploying Express NodeJS app to Webfaction using Git 12/02/2015 Use source control to ensure your deployed files are correct.

• Pairs game released! 27/01/2015 Memory puzzle game

• Changing pages with bookmarklets 18/11/2014 Run arbitrary code in your browser.

• Vanilla Javascript alternative to jQuery's $(document).ready() 06/10/2014 You might not need jQuery

• Using virtual machines to test sites in Internet Explorer 10/09/2014 IE is testing

• Add, remove or toggle classes with vanilla Javascript 27/08/2014 You may not need jQuery.

• Totally awesome Sass tips 07/08/2014 Getting sassy

• Creating a Yeoman Generator 04/08/2014 Templating and boilerplate

• Setting up SSL 03/08/2014 Fonts can be secure too

• Building the Pollen Count site - a Node.js walkthrough 02/07/2014 Are you going to sneeze all day?

• Check Yourself released! 19/06/2014 Get blood sugar reminders after meals.

• Make an accordion using CSS animations 01/05/2014 Slidey CSS

• Virtualbox Add shared folder from Windows host in Linux guest 04/04/2014 Computers in computers

• View Sass line numbers in Chrome Dev Tools 31/03/2014 Sourcing maps

• Procedural tilemap generator 25/03/2014 Using cellular automata to create a procedurally-generated tilemap.

• Animate link underlines 25/03/2014 Animate all the things, all the time.

• Glow highlight using CSS 20/03/2014 Shiny!

• Built-in servers 18/03/2014 Quickly serve files

• Using unicode characters in CSS before and after 18/03/2014 Making use of pseudo elements

• 1GAM Javascript Particle System 03/03/2014 Adding a bit of juice

• Make circular images using CSS 25/02/2014 Round round baby right round.

• Remote debugging Chrome on Android and iOS Safari 14/02/2014 Debugging over the phone

• Remove cookies from a site with Chrome 17/01/2014 Not even a crumb

• Responsive Design - Three case studies 14/08/2013 Mobile first?

• Debug Javascript on Android 01/08/2013 Chrome debug tools can connect to Android web views.

• Help! My Twitter feed isn't working! 18/06/2013 ex-X

• Repeating commands in the terminal 15/05/2013 Repeat yourself easily

• 6 Tips for Chrome's Web Tools 11/03/2013 Making the most of your tools

• 1GAM February - Copycat 05/03/2013 Creating a 'Simon'-like game in a month.

• Use Drupal's base URL in Javascript 26/02/2013 Move things around

• 1GAM January - Pew Pew 04/02/2013 One game a month game for Jan

• Use Drupal's alias URLs 09/01/2013 Friendlier URLs

• Enable dropdown styles in CKEditor 21/11/2012 Quick Drupal snippet

• Compile one Sass file with Compass 06/11/2012 Find your Ruby config file.

• Convert public:// url to a relative path in Drupal 25/10/2012 Reference relative files

• Useful Javascript Books 25/07/2012 A small library

• Parsing RSS feeds with jQuery 24/07/2012 Reading the web

• Sublime Text 2 18/06/2012 Setting up your IDE

• Sort Your Life Out released! 25/05/2012 A lovely simple to-do app.

• Android - Reduce lag when updating lists 19/05/2012 Speed up scrolling.

• Android - allow apps on SD cards 05/12/2011 Update your manifest.

• Open links in new tab 25/11/2011 Changing the target

• Android naming conventions 05/11/2011 Reverse domain names.

• Load external scripts with $.getScript() 26/09/2011 Load Javascript with Javascript

• Sliding elements with jQuery 05/06/2011 Slip sliding away

• Add snippets to Zen Coding in Notepad++ 04/05/2011 Zen coding can help you write code faster.

• Display Flickr photos in Galleria plugin 20/03/2011 Showing off Flickr pics

• Android - stretch to fill screen 06/03/2011 A single line to fill the screen