Toilet Opera
Someone practises their opera scales in the toilet of an Intercity heading for Berne. (Turn your speakers on!)
Latest blog posts
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Development and community; interview with Matteo Enna
Back in May, Sardinian ”open source evangelist and programmer” Matteo Enna got in touch and interviewed me for his blog. -
26 megapixels in the northern Highlands of Scotland
After buying a Fujifilm X-T3 camera, I took it out into the Scottish Highlands between Garve and Torridon to capture the remote landscape. -
Lightly child, lightly
“It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. So throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck […] -
Delivering mockups for WordPress Gutenberg
How to mock up a website design when every page can be built individually and controlled completely by the editorial staff. -
Hiking to the Oberaar glacier
Hiking along the milky Oberaarsee to the ice cave at the terminus of the Oberaar glacier. -
Those damned Reds
I met with a client yesterday at their modern office in a part of central Bern which is a former hipster area and which is plagued by graffiti artists and substance abusers. Although the building is new and freshly-finished with some attractive brickwork, it’s only a matter of time before it, too, will be sprayed […] -
The huffy church warden
If you’re huffy, you get what you deserve. -
Font sizing for the web
There are three main options for setting the size of text in the web using CSS. The font size can be set in “pixels”, in “EM”s or in ”REM”s. It can be a little difficult to understand where the differences lie, and which unit of measurement is correct.
