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2026

Alchemy
Clipped: a clipboard manager that gets out of the way
Broadsheet: rebuilding Pocket, carefully
Nest House
Refugee
Question
Rat
Playground rhyme
If I were you…
Overture
Trial
Silence.
Singers
An end
Synthesism
Does AI change the best approach to separation of concerns?
The Dragon-Guarded Land
AI's debt colony
End of the Line
Trespass
Claude skills are incredible (but Claude won't use them)
American foreign policy threatens American tech dominance
Vicious
Code Frontmatter: An Index for AI?

2025

Vibe
Lea: A programming language that reads like you think
Prefix
Paintings November 25
PWAs could still be good
What the FPL!?
A glossary plugin for Docusaurus
Augury
Election prediction and poll aggregation
Ode to Heather Christle
Perfect knowledge ruins fun and creativity
Holographic cards
Poetry competition runner up
Evolving AI art
Paintings June 25
Shakespeare and Dataism
The Bar for AI Keeps Shifting
Paintings May 25
Fakemon process with AI
LLMs are compression algorithms
Ownership in product
What's in a value?
The Age of Ideas
Feelings in product management
Tailwind sucks
Imperfect AI is perfect
Free Light
Tennis player Elo modelling
Fighting
In My Image
You Wave
The Last Time I Held Him
Clock
Inferential vs explicit logic
Sketches
AI is not a hammer
The America tax
Photography film
Perplexity vs. Google for Search
Numbers and colours
Deleting social media
React Composition: A Vindication
Hiring for product: what actually matters
10 highlights of 2024

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
Designing a consistent error handling pattern for APIs
6ams
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
The 5Ds of product management
Build MLPs, not MVPs - Minimum Lovable Products

2022

The art of fast decision-making
Toys, tools, products
Bird
Clouds
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
The financial reality for migrant workers
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
Painting on wood
Cryptic crossword #1

2016

Spirited Away bath token
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

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