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2024

Apple's organisational disadvantage in the age of AI
Does there have to be a lesson here?
My first ever design document
The 4 Ps of Good Business
Totori region - Fakemon
Docs as QA
UK Technical Communication Awards 2024
Strategy in motion
10% more learning
API The Docs Podcast - Documentation by humans, for humans
Battery life matters
It just works... finally
Carillon
The allure of stationery
Ownership in product
The New Generalist
No parking
23 things to celebrate from 2023

2023

Opinionated autonomy
Reinventing Codat's docs and developer experience
Some books I've read recently
The Other Wind - Ursula Le Guin
ChatGPT learns Langaf
Progress doesn't always feel like progress
Documenting what you can do with an API
Build MLPs, not MVPs - Minimum Lovable Products

2022

The art of fast decision-making
Toys, tools, products
Bird
Rough recordings of old songs from isolation.

2021

Interactive news articles with Ink
DND: Way of the Selfless
DND: Tribune
D&D Homebrews: Custom Content with MPMB Integration
Examining expected problems
DND: Combat Medic
Zine draft
Interactive news articles with Ink
DND: Warden

2020

Handbooker: Turn Markdown into D&D Player's Handbooks
DND: Gambler
A React starter template
Clouds
Creating CVs from Markdown
DND: Brood

2019

The right tool for the job
DND: Umbarans
Habit tracking
10 things a day
My dotfiles setup
Moths
Cryptic crossword #2
What the FPL!? v1

2018

YYMMDD is the best date format
Creating mailto: links that actually work
xbar plugins for Things 3
Random images
Everything starts with user experience and business model

2017

John Clowes - At Last!
The Duke of York Young Entrepreneur Awards and Enterprise in the North of England
5 reasons to keep a notebook
Cryptic crossword #1

2016

Winning the Durham University Blueprint Enterprise Competition
Minimally Viable Goods & Services
Various images
Optimizing life: lessons from AI search approaches
The Use of Genetic AI in the Balancing of Competitive Multiplayer Games
Knights and Crosses
Sigil drawings
Paintings

2015

Hand Typed
How is that not a thing?
Pioneers
Tennis vision: computer vision for match analysis
Durham's river deaths
RA doodles

2013

Tell Me About It
Goodnight

2012

Various images
How important was postage stamp propaganda in the establishment of Soviet Russia?
Godfreys.co - still driving around London 12 years later
Lyla

2011

Is commercial failure indicative of poor design?
Food for Thought
Get Lost in Type

2010

A Postcard From Elvis
The Heygate Estate
How I Feel
Butterfly Brands

2009

Mech Tree

2008

Random images
Winter

Clouds

January 15, 2025 · One min read

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Numbers and colours

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