Brush Ninja: Emoji Art Editor
I was thinking recently that I don’t write much about Brush Ninja. Brush Ninja is a free animation editor made entirely with Javascript and given away for free. My goal …
Swapping Google Fonts for Bunny Fonts
Recently there’s been a number of court cases in Europe suggesting that Google Fonts are not GDPR compliant. The issue is that when you link to a Google Font (using …
Jubilee Crown Papercraft – and how I made it
To celebrate Queen Elizabeths Platinum Jubilee I designed a little papercraft version of her crown. In fact, I’ve recently gotten into making papercraft toys, both building, and designing them. Most …
Randomness with PHP
When I was making my generative art I needed to generate a lot of random things. The simplest way to do that with PHP is to use the rand() function. …
Creating Generative Art with PHP
These last few weeks I’ve been experimenting with Generative Art, using PHP. You can see the evolution of my latest series on Twitter. Generative Art is creating artworks through programming. …
How to get a list of all WordPress Blocks in the Editor
Early on in the development of the new Gutenberg editor I asked how to get a list of all the blocks available in the new editor, then today Keith Devon …
Take Control of WordPress Plugin and Theme Notifications
Plugin notifications have been a problem in WordPress for a long time now. Last week I saw a conversation on Slack where a developer said he thought they were getting …
New WordPress Plugin: Translate Words
Last week I had a theme customer who wanted to translate some words on their website. The changes they wanted to make were small, and so I wanted a simple …
Creating a Twitter Maze Bot
I recently had the idea to make a Twitter Emoji Maze bot, so I tweeted my idea and it was suggested I write a tutorial about how I made it. …