Posts from 2023
Stepping back from involvement in the future development of WordPress as a system.
Using block filters in JavaScript to override theme.json settings on a per-case basis.
With a name like “Ice Path”, you know before you arrive that a hiking route is going to be a pretty spectacular one.
The third of our slightly soggy hikes in the English Lake District in autumn 2022.
It seems as though there will be a fair amount of travelling for me this year, both around Switzerland (which is pretty normal for Jo and for me in our time off), and abroad. After visiting England in March, I was back again in April to visit Mum; later in the month, I rode the…
This music video by Bayview Sounds for their song “Home Alone” is very evocative of my trips to the northern and eastern Scottish coasts, with sea haar and low sun whilst driving along narrow roads. (The video was actually filmed in the far northern Scottish county of Caithness, which feels like the end of the…
Working in the web industry, I began getting fed up of trailing all the way to an office to work. When I moved to web agency Say Hello, I vowed to make the most of “remote working”.
This month’s set of photos is especially random, but that’s the whole point; not just of the ongoing photo series here on my website, but also in my life. The more varied and random, the better for me.
One of my hobbies is visiting less-than-salubrious destinations to take interesting photographs.
The “random things” posts are primarily about random stuff I’ve seen in the course of a month. The random stuff I saw in December was spread over four countries.
If you’re writing a plugin which needs to connect to a third-party service, there’s a relatively high chance that you’ll need to store credentials securely.
Using a third-party service to compare your website before and after a technical update.
Block Patterns, Block Variations and Reusable Blocks. How and why they’re useful and implementable.
Another year and another fresh start to a series of monthly recaps. (The complete set from 2022 is here.)
Building a single-selection category selector for WordPress Gutenberg using React.
A simpler alternative to wrapping a Gutenberg edit component with a higher-order component.
