Frontend @supabase. Cofounder of @benotist. Producer of @smashingpod. Runs with @SouthvilleRC. šŸƒšŸ»ā€ā™‚ļø He/him.

Bristol, UK
Joined November 2006
In a dog-eat-dog world, my main fear is the final remaining megadog.
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Tributes have been coming in for the man who fell and died atop his own bonfire. Sounds like he was a good guy.
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WordPress: you don't contribute, you just take Also WordPress: We're taking extraordinary measures by usurping your plugin with 2 million active installs because a security flaw we won't let you fix is a major widespread issue They can't both be true.
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Not sure what’s happened to quality control at @YorkshireTea but the number of split tea bags ruining a brew is getting out of hand.
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I’m looking for an iOS app that would allow a user to apply custom-designed templates (e.g. borders, logo) to a photo for making a branded social media post. Any suggestions?
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Had one of those dreams where @iainlee turns up and introduces himself as @richardpbacon and you know it’s not right but it’s the same ballpark so you just go along with it.
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Drew McLellan retweeted
Are you interested in speaking at WDC2023? We're on the look out for both Lightning and Full Talks! All the information can be found on the site: webdevconf.com/speak/
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At my first post-pandemic tech meetup. Listening to @naomigo imparting invaluable wisdom on TDD to @phpsw
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One of the last remaining pieces of embedded shrapnel from the browser wars.
šŸ“ The case against self-closing tags in HTML At best, they're a relic from the past, and at worst, they're actively misleading. jakearchibald.com/2023/again…
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A toaster with user profiles.
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Making my second cup of tea of the morning as I Dido’d the first one.
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Sage advice from the kitchen notepad.
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Boring fitness update: new deadlift PB of 6 reps of 130kg šŸ‹ļøā€ā™€ļø
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TIL my father used to have a cat called Zerubbabel.
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Updating the firmware on my Christmas tree šŸŽ„ šŸ¤·ā€ā™‚ļø
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Hey Twitter, what’s a good murder mystery that’s available to stream?
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I know it’s serious and I shouldn’t laugh, but I’m at the vets office and the receptionist on the phone keeps repeating the phrase ā€œfour whole chocolate orangesā€ šŸ«£šŸ«£šŸ˜†
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I once lost my job as a gym instructor. Just didn’t work out.
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šŸŽ² Too lazy to roll the dice when playing Monopoly, I embarked on a fun little project experimenting with MicroPython and a Raspberry Pi Pico. The display is a 128x64 OLED and the most interesting part was drawing the dice using the basic primatives offered by the display driver.
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Hitchhiking is a dying hobby.
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