I'm back baby!
Mar 24, 2025
It's been a while - sorry, had a lot on - but I'm back with a funky new style, a much better software platform and - hopefully - a bit more content than I used to write!
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Hi. I'm Alex, I'm a senior full-stack developer with a passion for building performant, accessible and highly usable web applications.
You can find out more about me by reading my blog, taking a look at my website or having a look at my social links which are below in the footer.
Here is an assorted collection of my rants, ravings and general ramblings. I apologise in advance.
The great abstraction, subtraction
Apr 2, 2025
As abstractions become less necessary, we might be heading toward a future where writing code by hand is the exception, not the norm. When that happens, what happens to the tooling we all love so much?
Digital Industry
Agentic coding is the future. It’s time to embrace it.
Mar 21, 2025
The rise of LLMs, particularly agent-based (agentic) IDE's like Cursor and Windsurf has changed the face of coding forever and it's not going anywhere, so you may as well get on board.
Digital Industry
2021 Goals - How did I do?
Jan 4, 2022
My hopes for 2021 were as about as grim as I predicted and once again I did not quite manage to achieve my goals.
Mind, Body and Soul
2021 Goals
Jan 5, 2021
2020 was not a year of succeeding in my goals. I don't share a lot of peoples high hopes for 2021, so these goals will be 'pandemic appropriate'
Mind, Body and Soul
2020 Goals: How did I do
Jan 4, 2021
Wow. 2020 was one hell of a year, right?!
Mind, Body and Soul
2020 Goals
Jan 10, 2020
It's not just a new year, it's a new decade, welcome to the roaring 20's! Let's set some goals, shall we?
Mind, Body and Soul
2019 Goals: How did I do?
Jan 2, 2020
Look at me! I'm doing my how did I do post already and it's only the 2nd of January! That must mean that 2020 is the year I finally start acting like a grown-up, right?
Mind, Body and Soul