Andrew "Drew" Ford

Full Stack Developer from Tauranga, New Zealand

Drew's Blog

2021-02-16
Easy ad-blocking via iOS 14 profiles
2021-02-14
Menu bar apps MacOS
2021-02-07
New Year, New Blog 11ty
2020-04-30
Dual Screen with Duet Display
2020-04-23
Roll your own WireGuard VPN with PiVPN
2020-04-08
Gluten Free Pancakes
2019-04-09
Test Automation Workshop
2019-03-27
New Zealand's Cheapest Mobile Plans
2019-03-09
Mojave macOS on an old Mac
2019-03-07
Lifx bulb
2019-01-03
Raspberry Pi Airplay Receiver
2018-10-13
Fixing an iPhone 6
2018-08-29
Write and Publish on the Mac
2018-08-29
Hosting Static Websites on AWS
2018-08-04
Internet Parenting
2018-08-03
An Almost Ad-free household
2018-07-28
Raspotify
2018-07-17
Pi-hole whitelist for New Zealand
2018-06-30
Bitbucket Pipeline
2018-05-11
Inside the Brotherhood of Pi-hole Ad Blockers
2018-05-03
Wordpress to GatsbyJS
2018-04-16
The Internet Apologizes
2018-04-10
Facebook data breach hits 63,714 New Zealanders after 10 people download quiz
2018-04-01
A Privacy First DNS
2018-03-31
New Year, New Blog
2017-12-01
VS Code can do that
2017-11-02
TVNZ App for Apple TV
2017-10-03
Why Does Sweden Have so Many Start-Ups?
2017-10-03
The Shorter Your Sleep, the Shorter Your Life: The New Sleep Science
2017-10-03
The Coming Software Apocalypse
2017-09-11
Cross Platform development with VS Code
2017-09-06
Clipy a replacement for Clipmenu
2017-08-27
How the Wealth Gap Affects New Zealand More Than Anywhere Else
2017-08-27
You Are the Product
2017-07-27
Social Media Is The New Smoking
2017-07-21
Recreate React from the ground up
2017-07-16
Design Your Personal Growth
2017-07-14
High Performance React: 3 New Tools to Speed Up Your Apps
2017-07-12
I Got Hacked and All I Got Was This New SIM Card
2017-07-05
Stealing Your Way to Original Designs
2017-07-04
Facebook, for the First Time, Acknowledges Election Manipulation
2017-06-29
TVNZ to Live Stream Free-to-Air Channels
2017-06-29
Announcing TypeScript 2.4 - Dynamic Import Expressions
2017-06-27
How AI Will Affect UX (and Vice Versa)
2017-06-23
Sega Forever Brings Sonic and Other Classics to iOS
2017-06-23
Community Update: Unsplash Branded License and ToS Changes
2017-06-19
What to Expect From JavaScript ES2017 - the Async Edition
2017-06-19
Google & Facebook, the real spy networks
2017-06-19
How to Set Up Two-Factor Authentication on All Your Online Accounts
2017-06-18
Winter of Xamarin 17
2017-06-14
Google Hires Veteran Chip Designer Away From Apple to Build Custom Chips for Pixel Smartphones
2017-06-13
6 UX Design Mistakes Costing Companies Millions
2017-06-13
A Complete Guide to Switching From HTTP to HTTPS
2017-06-13
The Company Behind WordPress Is Closing Its Gorgeous San Francisco Office Because Its Employees Never Show Up
2017-06-13
An Introduction to the `fr` CSS Unit
2017-06-12
With New Browser Tech, Apple Preserves Privacy and Google Preserves Trackers
2017-06-05
Facebook is Broken
2017-04-26
React-Sketchapp - Painting with Code
2016-04-20
Best of Build 2016 Conference
2016-03-27
Extended lease of life for old Macs
2016-03-22
The iPad whats it good for?
2016-03-20
Letterboxd app for iOS
2016-03-16
Replacement "Duck Heads"
2016-03-04
Movies 2016 to February
2016-03-01
Electron Wrapper
2016-02-24
React.js Conf 2016 Highlights - Day 2
2016-02-23
React.js Conf 2016 Highlights - Day 1
2016-02-17
Sideloading Apple TV apps
2016-02-10
FLUXless architecture?
2016-01-14
DVD authoring adventures
2016-01-12
TW64 fitness tracker review
2015-12-28
Prototyping tools compared
2015-12-23
Getting started with ReactJS
2015-12-05
Setting up a NAS
2015-10-20
Update iOS Sketch 3 Templates
2015-09-21
Mobile Couch tips for iOS development
2015-09-16
Prepare for iOS 9
2015-09-14
Getting experience with Swift
2015-09-10
Siri Remote Only Available in Eight Launch Countries
2015-09-07
Twitter, weighing up the noise vs good
2015-09-04
Android hardware makers stare into profitless abyss
2015-09-02
Moving Swiftly Too
2015-09-01
Angular developers sigh with relief
2015-07-04
What is a senior developer?
2015-04-21
The Auckland Fibre situation
2015-03-04
Kiwis winners in phone plan price war
2015-03-04
Life After Cancer: How the iPhone Helped Me Achieve a Healthier Lifestyle
2015-02-20
Charles proxy is your friend
2015-02-15
Working remotely from home for 6 months
2015-01-14
The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work by Scott Berkun review
2014-11-16
Hardkour - a great runner puzzle game
2014-11-15
Using VSCO Cam for iPad
2014-11-09
Weekend Wrap-up 9th November 2014
2014-11-02
Weekend Wrap-up - 2nd November 2014
2014-10-27
Long Weekend Wrap-up - 27th October 2014
2014-10-24
Manage your server from your iPhone
2014-10-22
Easy iPhone screenshots with OS X Yosemite
2014-10-20
Copying files from iOS to OS X via FTP
2014-10-10
Scanbot named best document scanning app for iOS
2014-09-22
Greatest Office Perk, No Office
2014-09-18
iOS 8 Release Day Roundup
2014-09-16
Minecraft sale to Microsoft
2014-09-12
Great Measurement Plugin Dimensions for Chrome
2014-09-11
Should I get a new iPhone 6
2014-09-10
iPhone 6, 6 Plus and Apple Watch initial thoughts
2014-08-27
My iPhone Home Screen - August 2014
2014-08-17
Self Quantifying
2014-05-16
Preview CSS on your live site with Charles proxy
2014-04-24
Redesigning the 2 Degrees Mobile iOS app
2014-04-20
Create a rapid prototype with Marvel
2014-03-16
Remote: Office Not Required - The Best Bits
2014-03-14
SASS extension for Kerning fonts for the web
2014-03-13
Black Pixels employees remote working tips
2014-02-13
Supercharge Responsive Web Design with BrowserSync
2014-02-01
New look blog design
2014-01-27
App Store Rejection
2013-10-30
Icons for iOS 7
2013-08-20
Choosing to ignore email
2013-08-08
A life lived outside of technology
2013-08-05
Post-analysis of a competition
2013-08-01
Help me win a mid-air wedding!
2013-07-26
Mac App store creating a new platform for UI design tools
2013-06-24
Find your passion
2013-05-26
Remove the blog cruft
2013-05-24
Non native apps - yuck!
2013-04-28
Glass is inevitable
2013-04-24
Podcasts for developers and designers
2013-04-23
The Designer-Developer spectrum
2013-04-23
The iPhone Tab Bar
2013-04-22
Please Stop Fighting About Your Smartphone
2013-03-21
Rapid prototyping tools for front end devs
2013-03-13
Links for web developers and designers 13th March 2013
2013-02-11
Links for web developers / designers
2013-02-10
New Responsive Theme
2013-01-01
Best Mac and iOS apps of 2012
2012-11-05
Clipboard history, why isn't this baked in?
2012-06-17
Create a 301/permanent redirect on Apache
2012-05-15
Time validation in ASP.Net MVC using a regular expression.
2012-04-27
Using LESS CSS - a programmable stylesheet language
2012-04-21
Bungy jumping, engagement and learning a whole lot of tech
2011-11-09
Perfect Pixel and Pixel Perfect browser plugins
2011-11-02
Facebook Page Photo Gallery plugin for WordPress
2011-10-05
Custom share and tweet buttons for Facebook and Twitter
2011-09-21
Travel hacking Air New Zealand
2011-08-17
Running incompatible/out of date add ons in Firefox
2011-08-05
Javascript (jQuery) sliders round up
2011-07-29
CSS3 and my toolset
2011-07-15
Slides for WDCNZ 2011
2011-07-13
404 page with CSS 3 animation
2011-07-04
Fireworks plugin to make favicons (with quick guide)
2011-07-04
WordPress setup using addon domain on HostPapa
2011-06-29
Kia Ora Bro!