Blog Archive

Reflections on code, the things I read and what I've been up to.

photos 1 min read

Selecting for an Exhibition

In a potentially vain attempt to improve my photography I took the Australian Centre for Photography’s introductory Camera Craft One course. I enjoyed it, learnt a lot and, at least...

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glove 1 min read

New Metaphors

So, if you're going to manage to convince the world to change the way it does something, it had better have an benefit that's immediately obvious and take no more...

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glove 1 min read

Just Because it is Possible

Still, there's nothing technically preventing you from using [mouse button] chording in your program. If you want to code it up, then more power to you. Why is there no...

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rant 6 min read

Designing Technology around People

George Orwell’s 1984 is rightly a hugely famous novel of the twentieth century. His depiction of a totalitarian future was so griping and compelling that the words and phrases he...

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web 2 min read

Links in Tweets

There is currently some discussion about the dangers of URL shorteners. Joshua Schachter points out that shortened URLs damage the web - the ‘hypertext as engine of application state’ part...

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