If all you have is a hammer…

The following post is a collection of tools that I use as to support my work as a digital designer at Automattic on the VIP Platform team. I tend to favour fewer tools, less software, less clutter. I like to think that it helps to stop the spread of information across platforms, products and software …

The Decline

Earlier this year my wife Gemma and I took a short trip to Berlin. It is a place we have always wanted to visit and it didn't disappoint. It is a city full of history, interesting architecture and most importantly, great food! Walking back to our hotel one evening, we discovered a building that stood …

Plugins, Plugins, Plugins

For the past six weeks I have been working to retire a small library of shared plugins on the VIP Go platform. It was a slow and delicate operation that needed to be coordinated with clients and development partners. It required patience, accuracy and lots of testing. My task was to manually open pull requests …

Node-RED + WordPress = Magic

We have just returned home from the Grand Meetup, the yearly Automattic get together. For one week the entire company descends on a single location and this year it was Whistler in British Colombia, Canada. We get to choose between working on a project, studying something new or our regular jobs for the week. This …

One more thing…

I have a guilty pleasure. On a Sunday afternoon when the weather is bad I like nothing more than to sit down to an episode of Columbo. My wife and I have the entire box set and have made our way though every episode, including the pilots of Mrs Columbo. Watching a random episode is …