• This site is a work in progress so if things are broken/unfinished/messy you know why. I’m building my site on the WordPress full site editor and it’s a ton of fun. I’ll do a write up on how I made everything once it’s finished. Until recently everything was hidden behind a coming soon page but…

  • WordPress 6.5 Regina is available for download. Big effort from everyone in the community and there is a ton of new features packed into this one. Many of which will be of interest to developers, lot’s of new API functions to play with, these are the foundations of what’s to come to end users. There’s…

  • I moved Mastodon servers to mastodon.social for no particular reason. But the fact you can move your following/followers list is one of the most liberating feelings I’ve had on social media. Data Liberation is a concept I’m super curious about.

  • Let ask the gods not for possessions, but for things to do; happiness is in making things rather than in consuming them. Will Durant, Fallen Leaves: Last Words on Life, Love, War, and God

  • Teaching is not a “delivery system.” It is a process of human engagement. Laurie Rae Baxter, Introduction of Mary Ellen Mark on the portrait and the Moment

  • I got to marry Rebecca Hainsworth for the second time in a year. Not without the help of so many of our friends and family to whom I’m eternally grateful. Here’s a favourite from the pictures @kelliescottphoto.co captured. I’ll trickle them out over the years to come. This is me and the bride in front…

  • My wedding is in 1 week 👀

  • I had a ball watching Adam Savage make a bag. You can buy the patterns to make it yourself DIY style.

  • Gutter (External Link) (and my photo) has a full page in the Belfast International Arts Festival brochure. So cool!

  • Chris: But this even comes up at work and professionally, I think, for all of us is that you can criticise, let’s say, what somebody else is doing at work, like, “I don’t like that. I don’t think we should do that.” That’s easy to do. Dave: Mm-hmm. Chris: What you need to do, though, is not just…

  • Here we go. Lionesses first ever World Cup final. I love how open the games have been during this tournament. Makes for entertaining matches.

  • Earlier this year I worked with Off The Rails Dance, a photoshoot this time for the upcoming world premier of Gutter. Super fun working with Kevin Coquelard and choreographer Eileen McClory. Which brings us to my next point… Gutter will premier at this years Belfast International Arts Festival. I cannot wait to see it.

  • Kim Cattrall rocked up to my offices today, was so cool to meet her, she was so down to earth and laid back.

  • Lately, I’ve been working on my website in the evenings. It’s been fun! It reminds me of the early days, staying up late learning, coding, breaking things, fixing things. I’ve put this down to a few things, all the drama about social media has made me fall in love with my own site, posts and…

  • WordPress 6.3 Lionel is available for download. Huge effort by everyone this is a big release and it’s the first time I’ve really began to notice how far WordPress has come in the last few years. It’s been a lot of fun building in the editor and imagining the potential possibilities. https://wordpress.org/download/

  • WordPress now has a spot on their wordpress.org website to remember all those who contributed greatly to the project and are no longer with us. A beautiful way to honour those who’s spirit lives on through their contributions to code, community and leadership. https://wordpress.org/remembers/

  • Need an image or a track for your next project? Openverse is a search engine that gives you access to millions of free assets all covered by a Creative Commons License. Openverse is a tool that allows openly licensed and public domain works to be discovered and used by everyone. Openverse searches across more than…

  • I’ve spent the last weekend building a new theme for my website, I’m so impressed at how far the block editor has come along in the last 12 months. Many of the FSE (full site editing) early growing pains have gone and I’ve manage to build 100% of the theme inside the WordPress editor thus…

  • Twitter/X is starting to feel like the early hours of a house party. Very few people left and those that are left are inebriated and talking absolute shit.

  • Checked into Banana Block, Belfast. I’m shooting The Orb for Eastside Arts Festival. I’m not sure who The Orb is but it was loud and people really seemed to enjoy Orbing. A lot of closed eyes and hands in the air.

  • Checked into Cineworld, Belfast to see Oppenheimer on an IMAX screen (my first time at an IMAX) — with Becca.

  • Booked my tickets to see Oppenheimer. This will be my first IMAX experience, can’t imagine a better director than Nolan to give me a good first experience.

  • Stunning evening in Englands capital. London truly is a wonderful city. Such positivity in the air during these summer months. I’d forgotten just how much it means to me.

  • Three couples and a chimney.

  • I got to design my wedding invitations with some excellent input from Becca. Deeply satisfying process and saved us some money. Also a big shout out to print.work I was super surprised at how good these turned out. Doubt I’ll go into the wedding design business but this was fun personal project.

  • Goodbye Tower St! I’ll miss you.

  • Do not get stuck on the fence of overwhelm. Olaf De Fleur – Skillshare class

  • A moody snowy morning at Green Mountain Falls

  • I’m sat in bed in Colorado where I’ve spent the last few weeks of the year. With my new Wife, Becca and her family. Looking back on one of the biggest years of my life, I feel proud of what I’ve achieved and positive of the year ahead. At the beginning of the year I…

  • This is Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs. Red rock everywhere. Almost wrecked the drone after 5mins flying. I really haven’t gotten the hang of it just yet. But what a playground to practice in ey?

  • This place is wild as it is beautiful. Within an hour temperatures drop 20 degrees and winds chase you home. If you live here, you live WITH the mountains.