Writing

Between other (mostly fleeting) hyper-fixations, I sometimes write blog posts. Here is every post I've written over the last 17 years that I haven't since deleted.

30 Sep 2025: you should trust your users with their location
8 Jun 2025: 2025 macbook air
5 May 2025: how to publish watchOS only apps to app store connect from xcode
12 Apr 2025: 2017 macbook 💻
15 Mar 2025: prefetching for dummies
4 Jan 2025: happy new year ✨
9 Nov 2024: officially a software developer
13 Jul 2024: automatic dark mode on your website without fuss
21 Feb 2024: returning a date as an int in t-sql
1 Feb 2024: january 24
27 Jan 2024: another year, another ipad
1 Dec 2023: various thoughts
13 Sep 2023: 'you couldn't live with your own failure, where did that bring you? back to me' 🫰
7 Apr 2023: flaky-toothbrush, a ci/cd playground built on surge.sh 🧑‍💻
13 Mar 2023: ipad pro: surely apple will kill this before it dies 👻
7 Mar 2023: dell latitude 7820 hackintosh
13 Feb 2023: powerbi 'unable to connect to data source undefined' 😡
24 Jan 2023: github codespaces ✨
9 Jan 2023: hp ubuntu stuck in boot ➰
29 Aug 2022: two thousand and twenty two 🏕️
6 Apr 2021: ubuntu portable setup and hardening 🐧
5 Apr 2021: setting up a dev environment for github pages ⌨️
24 Jun 2019: life update 👶
25 Jan 2018: my new typewriter - the powerbook g4 🍎
17 Dec 2017: ipad pro: the least ipad ipad yet 💻
30 Aug 2017: you should watch the digimon movie 📽
8 Aug 2017: fizzbuzz 💻
30 Jul 2017: half time 👟
1 Jan 2017: my annual year 📖
6 Nov 2016: quick and lazy random titles 💻
9 Aug 2016: organisation 📕
16 Jul 2016: switching gears, or how i accidentally stumbled my way into the fray of a management job contest 🏆
27 Apr 2016: hyper light drifter 🎮
25 Mar 2016: thoughts on squarecms 🚀
23 Feb 2016: quick and dirty referencing 🖊
14 Feb 2016: Kanye West 30 Hours
16 Dec 2015: The December update
3 May 2015: Supporting in Season 2015
7 Nov 2014: Tom does reading: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
9 Aug 2014: Lazy scaling for lazy people
4 May 2014: New design, or Tom inside
7 Jan 2014: HP Chromebook 11
28 Nov 2013: Objects in mirror are losing
28 Nov 2013: League of Legends: Supporting 101, a pre-season update
24 Nov 2013: League of Legends: Season 4 support masteries
24 Nov 2013: :not()
24 Nov 2013: Yorkshire hills by my friend Alex
2 Nov 2013: Life
9 Aug 2013: Google Play Music All Access: terrible title, terrific service
6 Aug 2013: Abort the mission, I've fallen in love with Jekyll
4 Aug 2013: Oscar Wilde
4 Aug 2013: The banner image took too long to load so here's a fun video and a new banner colour
31 Jul 2013: League of Legends: Supporting 101
29 Jul 2013: The world is (going) flat
14 Jul 2013: Mobile Tech Rant
27 Jun 2013: Digg Reader. Yes.
25 Jun 2013: Surviving Without Google Reader
19 Jun 2013: Hello World!
9 Jun 2013: Welcome to Jekyll!
17 Jan 2013: Finding the perfect writing tool
7 Mar 2012: In the case of evals in PHP