Years ago on Bukkit servers, one of the plugins I always reached for was CityWorld – point it at a fresh world and it filled the ground with a working city: named streets, furnished buildings, farms, mines, sewers, all of it generated straight from the seed. When my Bukkit-era projects moved on, CityWorld quietly stopped […]

I kept ending up with Minecraft schematic files – builds people had shared, things I wanted to reuse – and no quick way to actually look at one without loading it into a world first. So I built the tool I wanted: Schemy, a small, fast desktop app that previews Minecraft structure files in 3D. […]

There’s a particular kind of frustration that comes from discovering a client’s site has been down for three hours and the only reason you found out was because they called you. It’s not a good look. I manage a handful of e-commerce and lifestyle sites – a mix of Magento and WordPress installs across various […]

Recently I’ve noticed that an article about the “Insidiousness of Facebook Messenger” is doing the rounds again.

Twitter was too short for me to make my full rant about this…
So here’s the full force.

If you have any involvement in SEO you’ll have heard the phrase “Content is King”.  Google has for many years been trying to make the content of a page the most important aspect and for the most part it has achieved that goal this year. I’ve always said to any person that would listen that … Continued

Whilst working as a Web Developer on many sites I’ve often had clients far more focused on aesthetics than function. This obsession has included things as specific as being asked to move text one pixel to the left, to the more vague “bold, bolder, bolder…less bold”. This has even lead to me developing a sixth … Continued

For a long time people have known that information flow has value. Also, that preventing its flow gives power to ‘those in the know’.