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Purgeable Mac Apps

For months now, I have been scratching my head over a small but persistent number of “crash reports” affecting a few of my apps. The issue is most prevalent in MarsEdit, where I have a handful of users who run into the issue multiple times per day. Luckily, one of these users is my good […]

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NetNewsWire 6.1 for Mac: Subscribe to Feed

Nearly ten years ago, inspired by Apple’s removal of the “RSS” button from Safari 6, I released a standalone Safari extension called Subscribe to Feed. The extension simply replaced the functionality of having an easy way to subscribe to the RSS feed of any web site you might be viewing. This worked great for many […]

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TIL: A situation where the <svg> doesn't fully appear in Safari.

I wasn't entirely sure how to title this blog post as it isn't straightforward to describe it but here it goes. I should also preface that my knowledge of SVGs is quite high level so maybe someone who is may more experienced than me would have spotted this out easily but I f...

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Bookmarks that were collecting dust

Here are some of the things that have been collecting dust in my bookmarks since June. I missed a lot of things shared online since. I hope one day I can catch up. This really isn't my year when it comes to sharing bookmarks. Luckily, the world won't end because of it! Bookm...

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The Talk Show 327: Giddy with Mac-ness

I had a blast chatting with John Gruber on the latest episode of The Talk Show. The timing worked out perfectly for us to abandon our usual jaded attitudes and just fully dote on the new MacBook Pros.

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So I am now a naturalised citizen...

One year and one day after receiving my settled status I officially became naturalised and am now a British citizen. I’m grateful for having been welcomed here (despite Brexit!) and making it “official” with the country I now call my home and for Portugal to allow dual citiz...

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TIL: Fixing horizontal scrolls due to full bleed blocks without overflow: hidden

A while back I worked on a project with an existing seven year old codebase and it was my task to refresh the design of it without a rebuild. This meant that I found a few constraints and one of them was allowing full bleed components (like a newsletter banner) which didn’t ...

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More bookmarks from 2021

I'm not gonna lie - I'm quite disappointed in myself that I still haven't got my poop together and gone back to doing this monthly. I managed to write some blog posts since March but all those happened because I milked really hard the surge of energy I had at that moment. As...

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My most memorable bad interview

Last weekend my husband and I started to watch Ted Lasso and as soon as the character Ted sets up their new home in Richmond, it reminded me of one of my worst job interviews because I’m pretty sure I cried in front of Ted’s local. Let’s start from their (the interviewers) p...

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On onion cutting

In the television show Masterchef there was an episode where the judges did a test on what they call “basic skills”. One of the judges often says that in order to be a “true chef”, you must know how to quickly and finely cut onions. It was really intense and they were lookin...

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A personal note

This post has a content note of miscarriage. Visit the link directly if you're okay with reading it.

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One year of online-only

The one year anniversary of the "never-ending" March has just passed. One year ago, my co-organisers and I were in limbo on whether the events we were running would happen in person or not. That week I was helping to run a London CSS and an IndieWebCamp. Both events were mov...

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Catching up on my bookmarks

The thing about loss is that it just doesn't seem to end. It gets easier though. One day you wake you and you're feeling fine but one insignificant action somehow opens the gates for the sadness to creep in. And then that's it. The floodgates open and the tears come out. If ...

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My typical day

Hidde invited me to share what my typical day looks like. I saw the chain going around and I read a few from people I know. I thought it was really interesting and I had a strange feeling of relief when I read about real humans and the fact that, actually, they are very simi...

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Unsolicited rejection

Every once in a while I realise that I have been rejected for something I didn’t even apply for. A couple of jobs ago, I was in the common area having lunch when a work colleague asked me if I had a Twitter account. “Yes”, I replied and told him my Twitter handle. I saw him ...

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Bookmarks from September and October

The whole September I was quite overwhelmed with work and life. I remember that in September "The Social Dilemma" came out. I don't remember a lot more weirdly. In October I managed to take two weeks off! Visited the Isle of Wight for the first time to celebrate my birthda...

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Thoughts: this version of myself

When my Smashing Magazine article went live a couple of months ago a small discussion happened regarding my choice of words where I said I could have a  “one true version” of yourself online. Behind my two extremes of either silence or self deprecating jokes, is a socia...

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Three Podcasts and a Blog

I’ve been wanting to create my own crossword puzzles since I was a kid, but never quite got around to it. Earlier this year I decided to renew my commitment, and tweeted a bold claim: Mark my words: within 3 months I'm going to publish my first self-constructed crossword puzzle, and within 3 years I'm […]

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August bookmarks

The highlight of the month was: My article for Smashing Magazine went live!! Please read (and share if you think someone else would like it too)! 🤗 Bookmarks from August Web development System UIcons by Corey Ginnivan. Transparent textures by Mike Hearn. Debugging HTML W...

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Autonomy Online: A Case For The IndieWeb on Smashing Magazine

Last week my article for Smashing Magazine went live! I was quite nervous and anxious but... so far nobody yelled at me - which is good! It was my first ever experience writing something slightly serious and going through an editing process. I really want to be proud of mys...