Writing

Journal · Accessibility

You've Made a Start. Then What?

Audits don't sustain accessibility. Roles do. Notes from inside the work.

Journal · Accessibility

What Good Actually Looks Like

Three pieces on how accessibility fails. One on what progress actually looks like. And why even that isn't the full story.

Journal · Accessibility

The Organisation That Never Prioritised It

Engineering fails. Design fails. But both of those failures have a common source: organisations that never valued accessibility in the first place.

Journal · Accessibility

The Design Brief That Never Mentioned Disabled People

Accessibility gets engineered out. But before that, it gets designed out, by people with the authority to make that call and no accountability for the consequences.

Journal · Accessibility

The Accessibility Problem Isn't Design. It's Engineering.

Audits get run. Boxes get ticked. Statements get published in footers. And then most teams move on. Nine months after the EAA deadline, it's worth asking what actually changed.

Fieldnotes #08

On mountains, resets, and the relief of a goal that belongs to nobody else.

Journal · Personal

2025 — That's a Wrap

A year that ground rather than broke. On flat pay, long commutes, and the things that kept me intact.

Fieldnotes #07

On knowing what you need, and the cost of saying it out loud.

Fieldnotes #06

On friction - in interfaces, in routines, and what it's trying to tell you.

Fieldnotes #05

On pace, rhythm, and the difference between moving fast and moving constantly.

Journal

Why I Write

Writing is how I figure out what I actually think. Everything else follows from that.

Journal · Personal

2024 — That's a Wrap

After the year that 2023 was, 2024 felt like breathing out. A new role, proper design systems work, and the occasional crisis of confidence.

Fieldnotes #04

Design system governance, components vs patterns, and too much coffee.

Journal · Personal

Thank Fuck '23 is Nearly Over

Redundancy, mental health, job hunting hell, and finally landing somewhere good. 2023 in review.

Journal · Personal

Post-Redundancy Thoughts

Notes captured during a six-month redundancy job hunt: on the broken interview processes, the ghosting, and what I learned about modern tech hiring.

Fieldnotes #03

On recruiter ghosting, live coding anxiety, and what the job market does to your head after a few months.

Fieldnotes #02

On getting made redundant, having a fourth knee surgery, and the peculiar exhaustion of both happening at once.

Fieldnotes #01

Relaunching on Astro, The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry, and spotting my home town of Cleveleys in a galaxy far, far away.

Journal · Personal

It's Good to Talk

An honest post about burnout, an eating disorder diagnosis, and why taking that first step is always worth it.

Journal · Personal

Dealing with Rejection

Twice rejected in four weeks. Here's how I dealt with it, and what I learned from sitting with the discomfort rather than running from it.

Journal · Personal

What a Year

2015 brought fatherhood, a change of jobs, and more change than I could have imagined.