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Writing

Google AMP tightens its grip

Owen Williams covers off all the current problems with AMP, the main one being that Google are continuing to systematically taking more control over the content on the web. By all means, make the web a faster place, but reward sites that are doing it on their own without using Google’s proprietary markup and servers […]

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Writing

Number two pictures

Not that kind of number two, ewwww. I left my phone with our number two child who wanted to look through the photos. Later in the day I was happy to find that she’d began taking her own pictures.

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Work Writing

New Mac Book Pro

Today I had my work machine upgraded from a Dell laptop to the MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2018, Four Thunderbolt 3 Ports) running Mojave 10.14.5 with the touch bar. I have heard a lot of bad things about this laptop when compared against the current personal laptop I have, and late 2013 Mac Book Pro. So […]

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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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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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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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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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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 […]

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Writing

How to rank on Google’s first page for your ‘Name’ keyword

Meet Matt Steel. I met Matt a few years ago while he was working as a freelancer at TMP when he would come in over the Summer months and help fill the gap when the work piled on. Recently I’ve been working with Matt to help get his site, Matt Steel — Creative Artworker, up […]

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Writing

Posting to medium from wordpress

I wrote an article a while ago about my cross dressing posting on this blog. A few people clapped (thanks) but a couple of others said that they were having issues getting the plugin to work as it hasn’t been touched in two years. This article will serve simply as a test to see if […]