This is just a quick post to announce a couple of cool UI/UX improvements to WordleWise… Firstly, if you’re a user who doesn’t belong to a group, you’ll now see a dismissable “Compete with friends” promo banner just above the main page content, with links to the “Create group” and “Join group” actions: Secondly, if […]
Author: wjrm500
Land of Opus and Glory
Last month was a pretty exciting one in the world of AI. Google released the long-awaited Gemini 3.0 Pro and a new agentic software development tool called Antigravity on the 18th November, and just six days later Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.5, the most capable LLM I’ve ever seen. AI fanboy that I am, I […]
Introducing Two Significant Upgrades to PRtoPDF
My GitHub pull request (PR) → PDF conversion tool PRtoPDF, first introduced in the article Convert your GitHub pull requests to PDFs, has just received two significant upgrades. Anonymisation config Firstly, PRtoPDF now supports granular configuration of anonymisation rules, to make compliance easier for users from a broader range of backgrounds and with a broader […]
Convert your GitHub pull requests to PDFs
TL;DR – find my GitHub pull request → PDF converter here, with everything you need to get set up. The other day me and countless other software developers and digital professionals across the UK Civil Service were compelled to submit a detailed self-assessment at work, as part of the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability […]
FantraXpert: A Fantasy Football Data Dashboard
Me and my friends have been competing in a draft fantasy football league since 2016. The platform we use, Fantrax, offers detailed scoring rules that reward players for completing all sorts of on-field actions, which is one of the reasons it’s so addictive. Despite my best efforts, I’ve never been particularly good at it. I’ve […]
Listen to The Robots and Thou Shalt Prosper
If, you like me, are tired of listening to Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart agree agreeably on The Rest is Politics, then I might have something for you… 🥁🥁🥁 It’s an 11-part podcast series on Web Development – planned, researched, scripted and read aloud for your entertainment by ROBOTS!!! Huh? Well, not robots robots; I’ll […]
Streetscape Now Does More Things Than It Did Previously
I published an article announcing the release of my new road network visualisation app Streetscape 10 days ago, and since then I’ve made a number of significant improvements to it, which I’d like to bombard you with today. Firstly and perhaps least spectacularly, there’s a new Guidance page to teach users how to interpret images […]
How Vibe Coding Led to a Crypto Mining Attack on My Web Server
I was surprised the other day to learn that my web server was under attack. I was remoted in to the DigitalOcean Droplet instance where my web server is hosted (I moved off of AWS a few months ago), when I noticed that system load was unusually high. Investigating further, I checked out CPU usage […]
Behold! It’s the Road Network Visualisation Tool You’ve Been Waiting For
11 months have passed now since I last did you a post, and much has changed in that time. I’ve had a baby, for one thing. But onto more important matters: the other day, I released a new app! It’s called Streetscape, and you can find it here. What is it? Streetscape is my way […]
GPT-4o – Hype and Building Stuff
Hype GPT-4o is OpenAI’s latest frontier model, announced by CTO Mia Murati in a livestream yesterday at 18:00 UK time, and at first glance the new capabilities that it promises are extremely exciting. The “o” in GPT-4o stands for “omni”, a reference to the native multimodality of the new model, which was trained end-to-end on […]