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My hotel…uh…my hospital

Stupid brain

So those of you who know me will know I broke my ankle in 3 places in early December. It was a complicated fracture involving 4 operations so far to set and deal with the breaks as well as deal with a torn ligament. My leg was in a pretty

More AI nonsense :)

More AI nonsense :)

I have a very old DVD of Willo the Wisp. Thought I’d give that a bit of a glow up... Pretty chuffed with it so far! ...and a bit of Arthur and Mavis Cruet...

Topaz Video AI

Messing around with Topaz Video AI and it's super cool. Managed to upscale Cloudbusting - combining the audio from The Red Shoes CD single from 1994 (Cloudbusting Video Mix) and video upscaled from Youtube I ended up with some pretty awesome if a little janky video. Super pretty! Already been

Reviewing 2021

> It's January 4th and all of my clothes have shrunk. Even the ones I didn't wash. All at once. I have no idea what's going on. Slowly getting the hang of the pandemic, I managed to work consistently for the year, not get covid and even travel a little. In

Appyness

Surprisee Drop a smile Midway through building the website for this, but it’s out on the app store, super proud to have been a part of developing it. Surprisee app - leave surprises for your friends at spots that are meaningful to you. Now available on the app store.

Scaling social with AKQA

Scaling social with AKQA

Thursday saw me once again back at AKQA for a Tech Insight, this time in Berlin. Was good to see the old gang again and get together for a chat about Conversational Intelligence. First up was Ollie Cox from IBM talking about Bluemix, what it is, what it isn't and

Design collaboration

Design collaboration

Unexpected benefits come in many forms when you’ve perfected your workflow. Today I’d like to talk about keeping a designer’s interest when you show them stuff. Livereload is probably my favourite invention for the web in the last few years. It still shocks me how few developers

2015 in review

…Because everyone’s doing it… and that makes it right, right? So this year was pretty odd. A mix of bad and good. I’m not really gonna talk about the bad stuff, those of you who know me will know about it anyway. This year was all about the

NETmag’s August article now available for free online

Quick note... The article I wrote for NET magazine is now up on their website for free :) http://www.creativebloq.com/netmag/5-tips-creating-simpler-and-speedier-websites-81412746

Retina background images and IE8

Quick tip, with thanks to David Owens for the inspiration. Problem: IE8 doesn't support background-size, so you have to include a separate stylesheet with separate background images just for IE8 if you have to code for it. Solution: background:url('../img/non-retina.png') no-repeat center right; background-image:url('.

Obscenely quick jMeter set up on Mac

About to do some jMeter testing. Found a blog post [http://biscminds.blogspot.de/2011/12/quick-jmeter-setup-on-mac.html] telling me how to set it up but it's fairly out of date. So, I present the Obscenely quick jMeter set up on Mac. 1. brew install jmeter1 2. There is no

Freakcity

Dev freakcity [http://www.webpagetest.org/result/140225_P0_BW8/] Live freakcity [http://www.webpagetest.org/result/140225_7J_BWB/] I've resolved to move all of my stuff from Windows hosted to Linux. http://freek.in is now running on Node, and I'm currently porting Freakcity/Quotebot to Node as

TECH.insight London

Just a quick note to say I'll be talking at AKQA's TECH.insight in London on Thursday 13th March 2014. You can get tickets through the rather snazzy website they made here: http://www.techinsight.io/event/london-march-2014/ I'll be talking on the subject of making websites that are responsive

Hello and welcome to my blogthingy.

I blog in a personal capacity about anything and everything going on in my life on freakcity [http://www.freakcity.net] but I thought I'd set up somewhere so I can post about techy type stuff that's relevant to me in my work. So for my first post, here's a