Writing
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Two blogs, one WordPress
How to make two blogs in one WordPress install.
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Twelescreen updated for 2017
I updated Twelescreen with this year’s politicians and up-to-date code.
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US maps from 1963
I scanned the covers of 66 maps that my mum collected while travelling across the USA in 1963.
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Last.fm added to Django Ditto
I’ve updated Django Ditto, which can now also archive your Last.fm listens.
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MoMA Exhibition Seplunker
About a website built with Good, Form & Spectacle for the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
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The Waddesdon Bequest website
About making a website for the British Museum’s Waddesdon Bequest, with Good, Form & Spectacle.
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Some kettle suggestions
I asked people to recommend kettles on Twitter. Here’s what they said.
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Thanks Leonard
I used a bit of one of Leonard Cohen’s songs on a dating service.
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What isn’t an Incredible Journey?
Is Twitter’s closure of Vine an Incredible Journey?
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Failing and trying and failing and trying again
I’ve started doing some acting classes again, after about eight years of no acting.
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Django Ditto and archiving your stuff
About making Django Ditto and whether it’s worth archiving all your ephemeral digital stuff.
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The Shaolin Film Club
What I can piece together about the mid-1990s film, music and computer games club.
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Everything had to be new
On the fads of 19th century Parisian bohemia.
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WordPress.com, and user testing, by phone
On WordPress.com’s two confusing interfaces, and wondering if user-testing of websites should include a remote support scenario.
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Folklore universe
About a 2001 paper that looked at how creatures created on a gadget spread around a school, and how people fail to see beyond their own small network.
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On spending too long setting up one webserver
I learned how to use Ansible and it took way too long because I like to do things properly.
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A thought on job ads
On recruiters’ emails that are really dull.
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Planning for closure
Maybe we should think about how long we expect our websites to live before we start making them.
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Teaching web development to design students
What I taught to students at Goldsmiths and how it went.
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Press play
A snippet of ten-year-old me from an old cassette.
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My 2015
What I did in 2015.
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Today’s Guardian is back
The site is fixed and improved.
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Today’s Guardian fixes
Describing why the site broke, the quick repair, and aims to get it back to full strength.
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Oh, this is so middle class
My answer to a question on Quora.
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Missing things
Missing things about the old Web.