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Personal Writing

Second best bloke in the world

It’s four years on today that I received the shittest news I’ve ever received from one of the the loveliest people that I know. The news came from Jess, and it was about her brother, and my best friend, Roland. I know you were both so very very close. He is gone. So sorry. What […]

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Personal

Songs are funny like that

Songs can have an amazing effect on people in a number of different ways. Over the past few months I’ve found that there are some key songs that take me back in history to my younger days, and the time that I enjoyed spending with friends who have since departed. In particular they remind me […]

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Writing

Visas, Permits, & ILRs

It started in 2007 with an application to the UK embassy to grant me a two year working holiday visa. That worked well, for a time, until I found myself and great job and a new group of friends while I made London my second home. By the time that happened I was keen to […]

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Personal

St Paul’s in January

On the way back from the City of London today I decided to take a stroll past a very special place in London. When I first arrived in the UK I would sit in a coffee shop opposite St Paul’s and write in my blog, build websites, and film and edit. As a result of […]

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Wordpress

The operation couldn’t be completed. (WordPressKit.WordPressOrgXMLRPCApiError error 0.)

Every time I try and upload an image to WordPress using the iOS WordPress App I get this error… The operation couldn’t be completed. (WordPressKit.WordPressOrgXMLRPCApiError error 0.) Anyone have a fix?

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Personal

Happy 2019

With a tick of a the second hand we’ve hit 2019 and all our hopes and dreams have been renewed a fresh, a clean slate on which we can carve our new future. Truth be told, it’s just another day and if you can’t get off your arse and change for the other 365 days […]

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Links

Justice.js

https://okor.github.io/justice/ A performance metric bar with a streaming FPS graph.g How to use <script type=”text/javascript” src=”justice.min.js”></script>
 <script type=”text/javascript”>
 Justice.init();
 </script>
 With options <script type=”text/javascript” src=”justice.min.js”></script>
 <script type=”text/javascript”>
 Justice.init({
 metrics: {
 TTFB: { budget: 200 },
 domInteractive: { budget: 250 },
 domComplete: { budget: 800 },
 firstPaint: { budget: 1000 },
 pageLoad: { budget: 2000 },
 […]

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Writing

Google Dinosaur Game

If you’re on the road a lot there is no doubt that you will have come across the little 8 bit dinosaur page in Google Chrome. You know, the one that comes up to tell you that you’re not longer able to access the internet because there’s a problems with the connection? This is an […]

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Personal

We love you West Ham

For the first time in a long while I’m on the way back to watch West Ham at the London stadium. This was a fortnightly adventure ten years ago and I’m happy to say we’ll be revisiting the same prematch haunts, except for those around Upton Park sadly. COYI!

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Writing

Building with ARKit

I’ve been having some fun with some semi client work recently and exploring the capabilities of WebAR using Apple’s ARKit. The fact that it works across the horizontal plane, meaning it needs some flat ground to attach something to, is great but it does limit the types of positions you want to get your models […]