On moving from Heroku to now

I use Heroku for a lot of my quick projects and a number of sites that need (in my view) to be online…

One weird devtool trick this developer uses. {$experts} hate him!

How tabs should work

Tabs in browsers (not browser tabs) are one of the oldest custom UI elements in a browser that I can think of. They’ve been done to death. But, sadly, the majority of times I come across them, the tabs have been badly, or rather partially implemented.

A Mental State

Today is the last post of 24 posts I published in December 2016. A way of flushing my draft posts and challenging myself to write. Originally, I had a post on my physical health, on how I had hurt myself over the last couple of years and some of the thought that goes into that. But, I sort of wanted…

Beginners guide to Stripe integration

I’ve used Stripe on a number of projects in varying levels of complexity, but if you just want to sell a thing (digital or otherwise), the process is relatively contained, but does require a server side aspect — which I’ve written up here as a node project.

Tricks with xargs

As a (at present) Mac user, I spend nearly all my time in the terminal, and around 2002 a friend taught me about the xargs command, which I probably use way too much, but it’s pretty handy. However, I keep forgetting specific tricks, so I’m writing them up here, in my online searchable diary.