Mike Moran, software engineer, dad and baldie


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When backend is frontend, and back again

If you're building a mostly-frontend dynamic site, but want to make it share-able on Facebook/Twitter with a nice preview image, then here's one new (slightly weird) way to do it.

Tautona: Visualising similarities between Slack channels

I hadn't done any lo-fi text analysis for ages, and since we've been using Slack at my job for a little while now, it was time to get munging!

The Diagonal Method vs. The Rule of Thirds

I am an occasional photographer and I became interested in how compositional techniques could help me produce better pictures. I've been using the rule of thirds, not least because my camera has an easy to use overlay for it. However, what