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  • 16 Sep 2023

    My Books

    Not Geek, Ideas

  • 19 Apr 2019

    It's Art, I tell you!

    After many years of meaning to do it and not actually doing it, I decided to open an Etsy store. It's not my first online print store. In fact, one of the key reasons I ever learned HTML, CSS and PHP was to build an online store for my artwork back in... 2002? Seriously? Seventeen years ago...?

    Anyways... I've put in a few prints so far, mostly from the Octoplural series of paintings although my current favourite is the My Day Flowchart.

    I really like how I could tie Etsy together with Printful so the prints are generated on demand rather than me holding a lot of stock which is how we did it back in the olden days...

    Design, Not Geek, Cartoons

  • 5 Apr 2017

    HTTP Status Codes: The Album

    Not Geek

  • 24 Apr 2016

    The Same Side of Two Different Coins

    Not Geek

  • 19 Jan 2015

    The Greatest Sea Captain the World Has Ever Seen

    (I'm still taking a break from tech writing. There will be more in the future, don't worry. If you really need a web dev reading fix, I recommend Val Head's book on CSS animations and not only because I was the technical editor on it.)

    Okay, How To Catch a Cold is still in the same state it was before (finished but unpublished) but the second of the three books I started is now finished, too!

    This one is a children's novel about The Greatest Sea Captain the World Has Ever Seen. Gasp as he navigates his ship through the Floating Flames, be amazed at spectacle of a sea covered in Pink Cloudweed, hold your breath as he confronts The Dreaded Pirate Captain Montigus d'Ark!

    I'll need to do a few rounds of edits before sharing any samples but this one was a lot of fun to write.

    Not Geek

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