A very British delayed response to a dinner party rant — If there’s a word for someone who loves technology in all of its weird and wonderful manifestations, then I would definitely describe myself as it. From a very early age I’ve always surrounded myself with gadgets and new technology. Therefore it goes without saying that I’ve always worked with technology…

Note: Contains spoilers. — This week marks a landmark moment in my life — I started my first professional web development position in April 1998, so this will be my 20th year. TWENTY. How the hell did that happen. When this first dawned on me I was stepping out of a coffee shop on…

The games I loved in the arcade as a child and how they compare today As you’ll probably know already if you’ve read my previous articles, I played a lot of arcade games as a kid. In fact I’m pretty sure that at some point during my teenage years I…

No seriously, what is it and why should I care. The first thing I did when I decided that I wanted to build an arcade machine was to Google “how to build an arcade machine”. Well, you would wouldn’t you. Immediately I was repeatedly came across a term I’d never…

(and why I intend to complete it) — It’s probably best to start with a bit of background for context. I was born in 1974 in the northwest of England, which means that I spent the majority of my childhood growing up in the 1980s. …

(AKA the extraordinary predictions of Marty McFly) — Voice interfaces have been around for a while now. Over the past two decades they’ve been quietly sat on our phones and home computers but have generally been unloved and unwanted. However more recently they have taken off in a way never seen before. In this article I would like to explore the growth of voice UI, the reasons for its sudden resurgence in popularity and ask where it could take us to next.