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71 entries
2026
- Very full-stackWith AI in the loop, one person can now carry a product from brand to infrastructure. The lines are blurring, and I think that is the point.
2025
2023
- LLMs are going great“A crowd-sourced collection of everything you shouldn't be building with LLMs. You're… not doing that right?” Made in twenty-four hours at the inaugural AI Hackathon London.
2021
- Unlocking Potential (keynote)He was provocative and challenging at the same time as being positive and inspiring. He fulfilled his brief completely and was very flexible in the lead up to his keynote- flexing the content and checking with me that he was getting the messaging right.
2019
- Makelight Router 1A two-file path-routing rule set that split makelight.com between the old Heroku app and a new Next.js front end, one URL path at a time.
2015
- Accenture (speaking engagement)Stef was great and delivered a great presentation and the audience found it very engaging. he recieved high praise and was a very approachable guy.
- SmallsThe Smalls — “where brands and filmmakers get together to make short films”: brands post a video brief, filmmakers pitch for it.
- Unicorn HuntA job board for tech jobs, built with 3beards in London.
2013
- AttendingSimple, social event pages: free to make, and guests said they were coming with one click.
- Hire My FriendA service for people who are in a job but want a new one: use your social network to find opportunities without your boss finding out.
- LinkydinkThe simplest way to share links with your team
- TentoringTen minute mentoring
2012
- Accenture: Festival of IdeasA one-day strategy event for ~1,000 staff of Accenture's Dublin office using real-time visualisation of conversation data.
- DemarcoA simple HTML5 mobile/web app to showcase the work of photographer Richard Demarco
- Mega MilesRunners raise money by running long distances
- The Startup WifeEmily wrote about her experiences of #startuplife — moving her blog to something more sensible to let her grow and improve it.
- The Last LaughPut a gift to Comic Relief in your will
- UlyssizeA James Joyce Ulysses page generator
2011
- CulturegridmobileA mobile consumer for the CultureGrid API - several thousand cultural artefacts on your phone!
- GoGenieAn ambitious project to create a structured WIKI for accessibility information, initially for all UK cultural venues.
- Stories from an Invisible TownAn online space for a Hoipolloi theatre project: a map of a childhood, built up story by story.
- MixilistYoutube app for online-and-offline parties
- White Bull "Bully"
2010
- CaboodleA set of mashups for common services for Sinatra, so you could easily pull together bits from elsewhere on the web to make a website.
- Grandma’s House – a short filmFilmdash is an annual 48-hour film-making challenge where participants plan, script, shoot, edit and upload a film based on a theme and an individual brief to include certain lines of dialogue and a prop.
- "London Wedding Photographer" Emily QuintonAfter the recent move to London it was time to update partner Emily Quinton's site.
- Monster MountainI surprised a few people on Twitter on my birthday when I spent the evening doing this illustration.
- SleepyMemcached API calls using Weary
- Yellow Swans — Going Places
2009
- BCCDIYA community-generated version of the Birmingham City Council website, developed in two weeks flat using Ruby on Rails, tea and biscuits.
- Help Me InvestigateA website to help those who want to investigate questions in the public interest
- London C-all-in-gSome changes are afoot, and it’s high time I blogged about it. In short - I’m going to be in London doing something exciting.
- Now Try FailingA graduation ceremony talk about allowing yourself to fail so that you can succeed.
- On SerendipityI’ve settled on looking at the idea of ‘accelerated serendipity’, which I think actually encompasses the other topic I was considering: ‘conversational leadership’.
2008
- A mixed bag weekThe last few days have been a mixed bag and I wanted to put something online about what I've been up to.
- 50+ Birmingham Twitter users you need to followTwitter has really taken off in Birmingham (UK) this year. Here’s a list of some of the people who are using it and I think you should be connecting with you if you haven’t already!
- Common Purpose — The Entrepreneur’s GameYesterday I was playing a ‘dragon in the den’ at a Common Purpose event as part of their Navigator Programme on leadership development.
- Connect or Protect? How can we open up our ideas and keep them safe at the same time?My new company is registered!
- Dad’s OkayWe all had a bit of a scare last week.
- Hello new blogger!Congratulations on starting a blog - nice to have you with us!
- Making a music video in 5 hours for Film DashThis is a music video I made today for the track Ut Nos Vivicaret taken from Xela’s forthcoming album In Bocca Al Lupo, on our label Type.
- OdadeoA social site for dads, launched in a very early beta for Father's Day 2008.
- On turning 30 and thinking “so that was my twenties…”I’ve just turned 30.
- Sam Amidon at the Tin Angel, CoventrySam Amidon, the artists behind our favourite album of this year “All is Well” was doing a show over at The Tin Angel in Coventry.
- The “One week until Clore starts” brain-dumpMy Clore Fellowship starts in just over a week, and I’ve got lots of thoughts rolling around about what this means, and what I’ll be doing. So I’m thinking them through here… any ideas, let me know.
- Web 2.0 or Blah 2.0?Here’s a summary of the talk Pete Ashton and I gave in which we attempted to explain what Web 2.0 is (or is not) and how it is relevant for small creative businesses.
2007
- 3form is 3formingOver the six and half years that 3form has been running we’ve achieved a great deal, won lots of awards and worked with some great people on great projects.
- A new lens for SpringWhile I was in Hong Kong I bought us a new lens and we’re both really happy with it.
- Artfest: Luminarium Levity II by Architects of AirThe other highlight of this year’s Artsfest for me was the Architects of Air piece in Eastside called Levity II.
- Authenticity of PlaceI was one of a handful of speakers at the initiation event around the next ten years of regeneration of the city of Birmingham. My word was “Authenticity”, which is something easily lost in a project of this kind.
- Autumn RecoveryI’m starting to think that this modern life we live is more and more becoming a constant blur of overlapping interventions, interferences, opportunities and threats.
- Back from holiday - here are a couple of new sitesBefore going away, we managed to get a couple of projects finished.
- Common Purpose - Matrix Programme - Track the Money DayMatrix – an 11-day programme, starting with a two-day residential course and then one day a month.
- Create something day 6 and 7: Peter Broderick – FloatJohn Xela and I spent the weekend talking about our ideas for the artwork for the new album “Float” by Peter Broderick coming out on Type in a few months.
- Created in Birmingham on FacebookI’ve been doing some research for a project that I’m working on at the moment that will rely on Facebook’s new system that allows people develop their own ‘applications’. You may have seen some of these - usually involving throwing pigs at eachother, trying to bite oneanother in some kind of lycanthropic fantasy involving ninjas or in the form of little bits of “that’s too much information, dude” revelations… all of this being ‘virtual’ of course.
- Crowdsourcing scales up - Who wants to redesign Birmingham?The meeting was one of the first of what looks set to be a year-long series of meetings, discussions, public debates and events all based around what is being called the “Birmingham City Centre Masterplan”.
- Digital Pioneers arrive in Hong KongI’m here as part of a project called Digital Pioneers with the British Council.
- Do Schools Kill Creativity?A fantastic talk by Sir Ken Robinson on the importance of creativity in education.
- Emily’s Birmingham wedding photography businessThis weekend I spent some time helping Emily out with an update to the website for her Birmingham based wedding photography business, surprisingly called Emily Quinton Photography.
- “How are you doing?”… “Oh, busy”I’ve been to a few events over the last week and I’ve started breaking my rule of not using the word “busy” to describe what I’m up to.
- In conversation with Scott RossI was lucky enough to have a chat with Scott Ross, CEO of Digital Domain.
- Moseley Folk Festival is Lovely with a capital LToday we took the day out and went to Moseley Folk Festival which is running in Moseley Private Park all weekend.
- Spring is here and Flickr is backI’ve spent the last few weeks without Flickr.
- When things just line upI managed a day off today - it was lovely. Not a bit of work in sight.
2005
- Museums on the Web conference (V&A Arts and Crafts)Presented at Museums on the Web conference.
2004
- Doctor FreezeA six level platform game developed for Jersey Insight.
2003
- Mansion ImpossibleAn addictive, free property trading game: buy and sell houses on your way up the property ladder, making enough cash to get the $10 Million mansion.
- TypeAn experimental record label co-founded with John Xela.
2001
- Type Records website and graphicsA new website and graphic package for a fresh new UK electronica label
undated
- FibersA session registry and knowledge loop for AI-agent-heavy development.