Andrew Ford

Test Automation Workshop

Some key take aways from the Test Automation Workshop I attended

New Zealand's Cheapest Mobile Plans

What are NZ's cheapest mobile plans

Mojave macOS on an old Mac

Get the latest macOS on your older unsupported Mac

Lifx bulb

A cautious first step to home automation

Raspberry Pi Airplay Receiver

How to make your Raspberry Pi into an AirPlay receiver

Fixing an iPhone 6

How I repaired an iPhone myself

Write and Publish on the Mac

M.G. Siegler describes his workflow for writing for the web

Hosting Static Websites on AWS

AWS is a great platform to host a static website, here is how to use Cloudfront and S3 to achieve this

Internet Parenting

Parenting in this modern age is harder now then ever. I share some tips to shield your kids from the bad.

An Almost Ad-free household

How to rid yourself of advertising on the internet

Raspotify

Raspotify is a great package to install on a Raspberry Pi to turn it into a Spotify Connect client that just works

Pi-hole whitelist for New Zealand

A list of URL's I've had to whitelist for apps media apps in New Zealand

Bitbucket Pipeline

Bitbucket Pipeline - Your own personal docker builds in the cloud

Inside the Brotherhood of Pi-hole Ad Blockers

An article on the team behind the great open source project Pi-Hole

Wordpress to GatsbyJS

How and Why I migrated from WordPress to static JAM Stack site built with Gatsby JS.

The Internet Apologizes

Even those who designed our digital world are aghast at what they created. A breakdown of what went wrong — from the architects who built it.

Facebook data breach hits 63,714 New Zealanders after 10 people download quiz

Ten New Zealanders who downloaded an app on Facebook could have exposed up to 63,714 of their compatriots to the data mining tactics of Cambridge Analytica.

A Privacy First DNS

Cloudflare launch a privacy focused DNS

New Year, New Blog

New year, new blog running on Gatsby

VS Code can do that

All the best things about Visual Studio Code that you didn't know

TVNZ App for Apple TV

TVNZ app for Apple TV

Why Does Sweden Have so Many Start-Ups?

Stockholm produces the second-highest number of billion-dollar tech companies per capita, after Silicon Valley

The Shorter Your Sleep, the Shorter Your Life: The New Sleep Science

...once people know of the powerful links between sleep loss and, among other things, Alzheimer’s disease, cancer, diabetes, obesity and poor mental health, they will try harder to get the recommended eight hours a night...

The Coming Software Apocalypse

Cross Platform development with VS Code

Clipy a replacement for Clipmenu

How the Wealth Gap Affects New Zealand More Than Anywhere Else

You Are the Product

Social Media Is The New Smoking

Recreate React from the ground up

Design Your Personal Growth

High Performance React: 3 New Tools to Speed Up Your Apps

I Got Hacked and All I Got Was This New SIM Card

Stealing Your Way to Original Designs

Facebook, for the First Time, Acknowledges Election Manipulation

TVNZ to Live Stream Free-to-Air Channels

Announcing TypeScript 2.4 - Dynamic Import Expressions

How AI Will Affect UX (and Vice Versa)

Sega Forever Brings Sonic and Other Classics to iOS

Community Update: Unsplash Branded License and ToS Changes

What to Expect From JavaScript ES2017 - the Async Edition

Google & Facebook, the real spy networks

How to Set Up Two-Factor Authentication on All Your Online Accounts

Winter of Xamarin 17

Google Hires Veteran Chip Designer Away From Apple to Build Custom Chips for Pixel Smartphones

6 UX Design Mistakes Costing Companies Millions

A Complete Guide to Switching From HTTP to HTTPS

The Company Behind WordPress Is Closing Its Gorgeous San Francisco Office Because Its Employees Never Show Up

An Introduction to the `fr` CSS Unit

With New Browser Tech, Apple Preserves Privacy and Google Preserves Trackers

Facebook is Broken

You probably already work for Facebook

React-Sketchapp - Painting with Code

Best of Build 2016 Conference

Extended lease of life for old Macs

The iPad whats it good for?

Letterboxd app for iOS

Replacement "Duck Heads"

Movies 2016 to February

Electron Wrapper

React.js Conf 2016 Highlights - Day 2

React.js Conf 2016 Highlights - Day 1

Sideloading Apple TV apps

FLUXless architecture?

DVD authoring adventures

TW64 fitness tracker review

Prototyping tools compared

Getting started with ReactJS

Setting up a NAS

Update iOS Sketch 3 Templates

Mobile Couch tips for iOS development

Prepare for iOS 9

Getting experience with Swift

Siri Remote Only Available in Eight Launch Countries

Twitter, weighing up the noise vs good

I weight up the noise vs the good on Twitter

Android hardware makers stare into profitless abyss

Moving Swiftly Too

Angular developers sigh with relief

What is a senior developer?

The Auckland Fibre situation

Kiwis winners in phone plan price war

Life After Cancer: How the iPhone Helped Me Achieve a Healthier Lifestyle

Charles proxy is your friend

Working remotely from home for 6 months

The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work by Scott Berkun review

Hardkour - a great runner puzzle game

Using VSCO Cam for iPad

Weekend Wrap-up 9th November 2014

Weekend Wrap-up - 2nd November 2014

Long Weekend Wrap-up - 27th October 2014

Manage your server from your iPhone

Easy iPhone screenshots with OS X Yosemite

Copying files from iOS to OS X via FTP

Scanbot named best document scanning app for iOS

Greatest Office Perk, No Office

iOS 8 Release Day Roundup

Minecraft sale to Microsoft

Great Measurement Plugin Dimensions for Chrome

Should I get a new iPhone 6

iPhone 6, 6 Plus and Apple Watch initial thoughts

My iPhone Home Screen - August 2014

Self Quantifying

Preview CSS on your live site with Charles proxy

Redesigning the 2 Degrees Mobile iOS app

Create a rapid prototype with Marvel

Remote: Office Not Required - The Best Bits

SASS extension for Kerning fonts for the web

Black Pixels employees remote working tips

Supercharge Responsive Web Design with BrowserSync

New look blog design

App Store Rejection

Icons for iOS 7

Choosing to ignore email

A life lived outside of technology

Post-analysis of a competition

Help me win a mid-air wedding!

Mac App store creating a new platform for UI design tools

Find your passion

Remove the blog cruft

Non native apps - yuck!

Glass is inevitable

Podcasts for developers and designers

The Designer-Developer spectrum

The iPhone Tab Bar

Please Stop Fighting About Your Smartphone

Rapid prototyping tools for front end devs

Some great looking tools for rapid prototyping. With these tools you can quickly get your designs on to multiple devices.

Links for web developers and designers 13th March 2013

Links for web developers / designers

New Responsive Theme

Best Mac and iOS apps of 2012

Clipboard history, why isn't this baked in?

Create a 301/permanent redirect on Apache

Time validation in ASP.Net MVC using a regular expression.

Using LESS CSS - a programmable stylesheet language

Using LESS for CSS

Bungy jumping, engagement and learning a whole lot of tech

Perfect Pixel and Pixel Perfect browser plugins

Facebook Page Photo Gallery plugin for WordPress

Custom share and tweet buttons for Facebook and Twitter

Travel hacking Air New Zealand

Running incompatible/out of date add ons in Firefox

Javascript (jQuery) sliders round up

CSS3 and my toolset

Slides for WDCNZ 2011

Slides from WDCNZ 2011

404 page with CSS 3 animation

Custom 404 page with CSS3

Fireworks plugin to make favicons (with quick guide)

Found a great fireworks plugin to create a favicon

WordPress setup using addon domain on HostPapa

Just a few quick tips when setting up Wordpress using an addon domain on HostPapa

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