Designing Products and Businesses: The Stack Fallacy
2021 Mar | 2 min read
2021 Mar | 2 min read
Enterprise Software is Messy and Difficult... That’s Why It Requires Transparency and Collaboration
2021 Feb | 3 min read
Test Counterintuitive Things, Because No One Else Ever Does
2021 Jan | 1 min read
Always Have a Real Use Case
2020 Nov | 3 min read
Preserving Digital Media
2020 Sep | 12 min read
Some Bad Theories of Management
2020 Aug | 1 min read
Some Interesting Ideas I've Come Across
2020 May | 4 min read
The Internet of Pipes
2020 Apr | 6 min read
Close Read: "Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei" by Eliot Weinberger
2020 Mar | 9 min read
Harvard and McKinsey's Bad Statistics
2020 Mar | 13 min read
Priorities
2019 Dec | 7 min read
Environmentalism & Entangled Systems
2019 Dec | 4 min read
Advice to Young Grads
2019 Nov | 10 min read
Print on Demand: Platform Design and High-Volume Merchants
2019 Oct | 12 min read
Imposter Syndrome and Systems (& Why It's Not "Just In Your Head")
2019 Sep | 8 min read
Designing For Data-Intensive Applications
2019 Sep | 2 min read
Some Common Planning Fallacies
2017 Jul | 4 min read
We Live in a Nation of Men, Prone to Error
2013 Jul | 6 min read
How I Built A Simple Image-Gallery Static Site Generator
I recently built a static site generator that scratched quite a few itches for me, not least of all being 'learning python'. The project was relatively straightforward: you can put your photos into a folder structure, run the code, and out pops a simple, static HTML/CSS site.
Easey: A Ghost Blog Theme
A Ghost blog theme that straddles knowledge base and blogging use cases, adapted from IVEEL's "Ease" theme.
GitGhost: An Automated Git + HTML Backup Script
GitGhost is a python/shell script lets you automate git-based .html backups of your Ghost CMS content and metadata. You can find the full code here: https://github.com/sharedphysics/GitGhost I created GitGhost after noticing that a lapsed card on my AWS account meant that my entire Ghost installation
Mockingbird Mixtapes
Between 2013 and 2017, I mixed a lot of music under the name Mockingbird & also released a #DarkSounds EP under As In Space.
A Simple Gallery
A static site generator written in Python that builds a quick, one page image gallery when you throw your files in a folder. Because, why not?
Error States
A blog exploring how public digital infrastructure breaks.
Thought Leaders
The embedding of modern philosophy & semiotics in business and corporate communication. Some case studies. Some mockups of philosophy x business.
The 95% Guide to Optimizing Your Website's Performance
2021 Feb | HTML, Optimization, JavaScript, CSS
From NoSQL to SQL: Turning Key-Value Pairs into Old Fashioned Tables for Analytics
2019 Nov | SQL, NoSQL