More thoughts on current tech. Trigger warning, these basic questions and points may cause offense. These thoughts were initially a Facebook post, but deserve further sharing. Too many academics are rushing toward this shining hill of gilded future promises. But should they?

Laragon is probably the best Windows based localhost environment at the moment. I used to use XAMMP back in the day, but soon outgrew that when I first discovered Movamp, a tiny portable localhost that I used a lot a few years ago. Its now defunct and too much hassle to make an updated version, thou...

So, what is this and who am I? This is my new web identity build, after running a WordPress multisite for a long time and now being kinda bored with all that updating, plugin checking and general bombardment of evil bot perma-attack. I also need web things to run => PHP 8 and a zillion WP plugins ma...

This is the first post to Grav, as I learn how the whole thing works. I tend to mooch into a new CMS, and investigate the build, set up, admin, themes, plugins and how things all fit together all at once, which probably isnt the best way but then again it kind of dumps you in at the deep end so you...

Im thinking about coursework as assignments for degree assessment. Here I’m emphasising why practical real-world orientated cour...

This post is about ridding ourselves of dumb assumptions about digital literacy – who knows about tech and who doesn’t. Mostly,...

Why are questionnaires always so badly designed? Why do people think it is easy to put a questionnaire together? This post consi...

This post is about dealing with difficult peer review, particularly reviewers who are rude and patronising. It’s made up of thre...

This morning I woke up and listened to the excellent BBC world service documentary ‘Dark Patterns’. It’s 27 minutes of your ti...

I write this post to document my own journey a little, and for the benefit of others who think they aren’t good enough, aren’t s...