Notes and tips and techniques relating to the use of chisels

Notes and tips on working with Mother of Pearl in a lutherie context

Notes and tips on techniques to use when bending wood with a bending iron.

Notes on techniques to use when sawing wood.

My compendium of Hurdy Gurdy playing tips, tricks and techniques.

A reference document containing the overall order of things when I’m making Hurdy Gurdies.

A critique of some the Xbox UI based on experiences at a relative’s house.

Tagging schemas currently in use on this website, as well as techniques I use when tagging my content online.

Ideas for an onscreen keyboard sign to be used with a typical TV remote offering minimal directional controls.

Suggesting a better Autosuggest, or “Correcting Autocorrect”

This may need to be adjusted for your bread maker. All values are approximate and add up to roughly 1kg of bread dough.

My Dad recently mentioned to me that, whilst he understood the basic premise of programming, he couldn’t figure out exactly how it worked. This was my response.

The Middle Way (happy medium, moderate approach, etc) is a non-compromising alternative path towards a goal, lying approximately between two undesirable, goal-compromising extremes.

Notes on choosing when to use id/class and what to use, based on URL design principles.

A collection of thoughts about principles, DIY, OS and dogfooding. Originally a reply to a G+ thread about tent.io.

Thoughts, ideas, flows and UX related to sending and receiving of messages via the web (not email!)

My Take on web actions as a new building block for the web. Includes detailed examples and nice drawings.

There are as many ways of billing for web consultancy as there are web consultants. But do our clients understand any of it?

Follow-up to an awkward twitter conversation between me and Paul Boag on links shaped like URIs and what they represent

A listing of tools and links to tools that I find useful for working with JSON, MD etc.