Posts
All the articles I've posted.
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100km
Around North London. A loop from Archway through parks, fields, and forests. 109.3km in the end — the round number mattered.
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Brighton to Hastings on Foot
Three days walking the East Sussex coast, from Brighton Pier to the Old Town of Hastings.
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Commit Messages & PR Titles
A practical guide to writing clearer commits and PRs. What I arrived at after almost two decades of questioning whether I was doing it right.
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Ode to ADRs
Why Architecture Decision Records are one of the most underrated tools in software engineering, and why I start every project with them.
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One Year at FoodCycle
Reflections on my first year of volunteering with FoodCycle — cooking for the community, fighting food waste, and finding something that actually matters on a Saturday morning.
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Quick Image Resizing with macOS Automator
Simple Automator Quick Actions to resize images to 25% or 50% directly from Finder's right-click menu.
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My Default Apps at the End of 2024
Updated:List of the apps I use, updated at the end of 2024.
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The Invariant Pattern - Cleaner TypeScript with Assertion Functions
How the invariant pattern can eliminate endless null checks and make your TypeScript code more readable and type-safe.
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Managing Default Code Editors on macOS
A simple bash script to quickly switch default file associations when jumping between code editors like VSCode, Cursor, and Windsurf.
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Bulk Image Conversion to WebP with a Simple Zsh Function
A practical Zsh function to batch convert images to WebP format with ImageMagick.