Writing
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Planning for closure
Maybe we should think about how long we expect our websites to live before we start making them.
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Teaching web development to design students
What I taught to students at Goldsmiths and how it went.
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Press play
A snippet of ten-year-old me from an old cassette.
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My 2015
What I did in 2015.
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Today’s Guardian is back
The site is fixed and improved.
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Today’s Guardian fixes
Describing why the site broke, the quick repair, and aims to get it back to full strength.
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Oh, this is so middle class
My answer to a question on Quora.
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Missing things
Missing things about the old Web.
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First sentence
A great first sentence from an LRB article by Adam Smyth.
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API “mashup” suggestions
Suggestions for quick things to make with JavaScript APIs.
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Any ideas for quick API “mashups”?
Looking for ideas of things to make with Goldsmiths students.
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The most profound interest
No one believed the Wright Brothers could fly.
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It is very nice
I made an iTunes playlist of complete albums and EPs and found all their cover art.
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Fixed YouTube favourites
YouTube favourites should appear in the big RSS feed again.
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The natural order of things
Bits from an LRB review of a book about how socialism has disappeared from America.
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What I am, and have been, up to
I’m freelancing again. It’s fine.
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Classic menswear blogs
A list of the sites I read about tailoring.
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Parsing a Wikipedia page’s content with python
How I ended up grabbing and parsing HTML from Wikipedia pages
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Practical Television, February 1952
I bought a copy of this magazine and it’s got some interesting snippets in it.
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Temporary archiving
Perma.cc’s terms of service include the right to delete anything and close without notice. Not really “the forever business” they promise.
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Reading about dancing about architecture
Trying to find music sites to read, and realising I don’t want to read any of them.
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Tech’s tunnel vision
Trying to imagine a less capitalist worldview for the tech industry.
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Booking reference
When a booking reference isn’t a booking reference.
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Visit your nearest branch
I tried to open a business bank account but it was surprisingly hard.
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Mappiness development
Some thoughts on the development process of my Mappiness chart