2024
- Enhance Your Website with my Free Embeddable Drawing App
- How I Fixed My Website's INP Issue
- TimThumb Image Resizer and Website Security
- Modern Computer Software - as Used by Me
- Creating a Custom HTML Elements: A Colour Picker
- Creating with Clicks: The Story Behind My Free Web Drawing App!
- Foolproof Flexbox: Fixing Flowing Frustrations
2023
- My Creative Process
- The Future of Creativity with Artificial Intelligence
- A Manifesto for Progressive Software Development
- Optimizing Code With ChatGPT
- Boring Technology is Beautiful
- Creating Jekyll Plugins (and modern image formats)
- Polishing and releasing my Reef.js game
- Using Reef.js to Make a Country Flag Game
- Typing Practice: Introducing Typing Ninja
- Celebrating 100 Episodes of WPBriefs
- Building a Control Panel for my Websites
- Welcome to the Festinger Vault Community
- Keeping Web Dev Simple
- Getting Back in the Blogging Groove
- Learning to Enjoy Building for the Web (Again)
- Cracking the Code: Creating NinjaPuzzles
- A Lifetime of Zelda Gaming
- Firefox Extensions I Can't Live Without v2
- The Myth of the Permalink
- The Quest for a 'Simple' Smartwatch
- Removing Google fonts
- Modern Art Direction: Making Your Website Stand Out
- How I Use AI to Streamline My Programming Process
- Rebuilding the Binary Moon Website
- Creating WPBriefs, the AI-Powered Podcast for WordPress
- Super Mario Bros. Movie Review: A Fun Trip Down Memory Lane
2022
- Brush Ninja Members
- My Disney+ Series Rankings
- Brush Ninja: Emoji Art Editor
- Swapping Google Fonts for Bunny Fonts
- Jubilee Crown Papercraft – and how I made it
2021
- Randomness with PHP
- Creating Generative Art with PHP
- How to get a list of all WordPress Blocks in the Editor
- Take Control of WordPress Plugin and Theme Notifications
- New WordPress Plugin: Translate Words
- Creating a Twitter Maze Bot
- Fixing Gutenberg Image Floats
2020
- How to fix “Invalid default value” MySQL error on WordPress database
- Fathom Analytics: A Privacy First Analytics Solution
- Pixel Avatars; a Privacy first Gravatar replacement
- WP Cafe – Developing Themes with Gutenberg
- Learning is hard, and so is React
- Does WordPress Need a Grid System?
2019
- It’s not all bad for WordPress themes – is it?
- The End of WordPress Themes is in Sight
- Toolbelt – WordPress Privacy and Speed
- Why do people use Medium (the online content publisher)?
- WordCamp London 2019
- Remove Jetpack Social Links
- Tada: And now your website is faster!
- The WordPress Block Directory
- Open Source Sustainability
- Gutenberg Phase 2 and the Future of WordPress Themes
- Childish Arguments over Technology
- Thanks for the WordPress Make Blogs!
- WordPress May Not Be For You!
- Slim SEO WordPress Plugin
- How I Learn in Public
- Javascript VS. HTML & CSS
- WordPress as a Facebook Replacement?
- Should Everyone Learn Javascript Deeply?
- 2018 In Review, and Plans for 2019
2018
- WordPress and a Faster Internet
- Regarding Accessibility in Gutenberg
- Contributing to WordPress
- Smashing Book 6 Review: New Frontiers In Web Design
- Gutenberg Cloud – the Ultimate Open Source Project?
- WordPress get_post_gallery() Gutenberg Polyfill
- Defaulting to the Gutenberg Classic Editor – Fixing Gutenbergs Paragraphs
- Patreon. The Future of Blog Monetisation?
- What’s the Deal with Google AMP?
- Finding the Essence of a Product
- Chrome for Android may start disabling JavaScript on 2G connections
- Using Gutenberg in Real World Projects
- Mythic WordPress Starter Theme, and Thinking About All Developers
- Gutenberg Reactions: Mixed Feedback?
- What Non-Disabled People Get Wrong About Accessibility
- Learning ReactJS for Designers
- GutenReady for the Gutenpocalypse – Educating Gutenberg
- HTTPS is Easy
- Why WordPress designers should consider design systems for their themes
- Brush Ninja
- WordPress: The Difference Between is_home and is_front_page
- Website Colour Analyzer
- Getting Started With Github Desktop
2017
- Pixel Peak – a Teeny Weeny Skiing Game
- Rescuing the MillionDollarHomepage
- Using Git Hooks to Clear Cloudflares Cache
- Fixing Theme Issues with WordPress 4.8 Media Widgets
- Fixing Typographic Widows in WordPress
- New Adventures in Jekyll
- How to Hide the Archive Title Prefix in WordPress
- WordPress Jetpack Admin Backup: For When There are Problems
- 2016 – a Year Reviewed
2016
- Adding a bit of Fun to my WordPress Themes Build Process
- Generating a WordPress rtl.css with Gulp
- Setting up Gulp for WordPress – and Checking TextDomains Automatically
- Automating WordPress Development with Gulp, Bash, and PHP
- Improving Habits with Habitica
- Lessons Learned from 20 Theme Releases on WordPress.com
- Mysterious Cities of Gold (Lyrics)
- Schedule content with Automatic Post Scheduler
- Adding a Portfolio to Binary Moon using Jetpack
- What is the Difference Between WordPress.org and WordPress.com?
- Using Github for Copywriters (via the Github website)
- MasterWP – A Free Course to Improve Your WordPress Skills
- My WordPress Wishlist
- Carmack: WordPress Magazine Theme
- It’s All About Me
- Legend of Dad – A HTML5 Game made with Phaser
- My Rules to Live By
- Empathy in Web Design
- Why My WordPress Themes Site Doesn’t Use WordPress
- Dogfooding a New WordPress Design
- Growing Up
- Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
2015
- My Experience Submitting a Free theme to WordPress.org
- Pro Theme Design Themes Club
- Reasons to Use Jetpack with WordPress
- WordPress Theme Club Comparison
- How to Add a Contact Form to Your Website Using Formspree
- Honor 6 Phone Review
- Simple PHP Colour Manipulation Functions
- Adding Menu Descriptions to WordPress Menus
- Disabling Website URLs in WordPress Comments
- The State of WordPress Themes #wcldn
2014
- Kontrol Freek Gaming Accessories
- WordPress 4.1 Improvements for Theme Developers
- Calculating nth-child CSS Selector Formulae
- Updating SourceTree Git Login Credentials
- 9 Hot Tips for Choosing the Perfect Domain Name for Your Site
- Adobe Dreams (and What I Replaced Adobe Software With)
- Closing Shop at Pro Theme Design
- TimThumb is No Longer Supported or Maintained
- Localised Estimated Reading Time
- Nomad Chargekey for iPhone
- I No Longer Use TimThumb – Here’s What I do Instead
- New TimThumb Exploit Found
- The Psychology of Done – or – How to Not do Things
- Using Youtube Thumbnails on your Websites
- How to Get Started With WordPress Theme Development
- HTML & CSS: How to Create a Fluid Width Stack of Paper With a Single Element
- Fixing CSS Transitions in Google Chrome
- Blobcat Game: Post Holiday Update
2013
- WordPress Improved Human Time Difference
- Note to Self: Using SVN Diff
- WordPress – Estimated Reading Time
- WordPress Numeric Pagination
- My First WordCamp EU
- How to Use Bitbucket with Github for Mac
- Rime – My Dream Video Game
- How to Make SlideShare Responsive With FitVid.js
- Using WP_DEBUG to Improve CSS and Style Enqueues in WordPress
- The Death of WordPress Theme Frameworks
- Brush Ninja – An Upcoming HTML5 Animation Website
- UCam247 – Security Camera Review
- Queen Elizabeth II and Me
- 6 SEO Tips for Non-Techies
- A Redesign for 2013
- The Last Of Us and PS4 Game Sharing
- WordPress: 10 Years Young, What Does The Future Hold?
- 11 Things Your Boss Expects You to Know About WordPress
- Website Content Strategy – Write a Blog Plan and Stick to It
- Redesigning the WordPress Post Editor
- My First Website
- WordPress Query: Exclude Posts With No Featured Image
- Automatic WordPress Updates on Nearlyfreespeech.net With ManageWP
- Mastering the Psychology of Colour Theory in Web Design
- Designing Perfection – A Waste of Time?
- The Amazing Art of Flipping Websites
- How to Find, Select, and Purchase the Perfect Domain Name
- Better Than Grep
- A WordPress News Website Resurgence
- Please Just Tell Me What You Want!
- The Ethics of WordPress Automatic Content Aggregration (Autoblogs vs Splogs)
- Mimbo Pro 4
- How I Averted a Blogging ‘Crisis’: 3 Lessons Learned
2012
- Learning to Accept CSS3: Creating CSS3 Windows
- 5 Things to do to Prepare your Blog for the Holiday Season
- Disable PHP Short tags
- CSS Highlight Colour
- Experiments With 3D Printing
- Jetpack: The Ultimate WordPress Plugin?
- Caseable – Customizable iPad Cases and More…
- Clearing CSS Floats Without Markup
- Grovember – Raising Awareness of Bowel Cancer
- Browser Shots WordPress Plugin
- WordPress Pagination with Custom WordPress Queries
- WordPress Social Network Aggregation
- Virgin TV Anywhere – the future of Television?
- iPhone 5 and the Golden Age of Computing
- Quick Tips: Taking Screenshots on a Mac
- 7 Uknown Mac Apps You Might Find Helpful
- Internet Explorer 7: Should We Stop Supporting it?
- My 3D Art Portfolio
- Pushing Myself to the Limit
- Perfection is overrated… right?
- European 2 Letter Country Codes Cheat Sheet
- Mimbo Pro Released on WordPress.com
- Draw Something
- iPhone Game in More than a Day
- An iPhone Game in One Day?
- Building Elemental 2: Simplifying Through Reduction
- Building Elemental 2: Getting Started
- Have you heard of WordPress $content_width?
- TimThumb Configurations
- Mimbo Pro 3: The Classic WordPress Theme Updated
- Complete TimThumb Parameters Guide
- Customising WordPress Custom Headers in Child Themes
- Legend of Zelda: The Lost Oracle
- WordPress Theme Framework: Less Is More – Or Is It?
2011
- Business Lessons from Innocent Drinks
- Star Wars: Clone Wars, Series 3 DVD Review
- Paul and The Big Lebowski
- TimThumb 2.0
- It’s Kind of a Funny Story – Movie Review
- Meteora, Exhibitor and Byline – New WordPress Themes
- A Day in the Life of a Web Designer
- Choosing What to Add to a Premium Theme
- TimThumb Quality Settings
- How To Fix WordPress and Mod Security 2
- Simple WordPress Post Thumbnails with Regular Expressions
- Optimizing WordPress 404’s
- Game of Thrones: Winter is Coming
- TimThumb Proportional Scaling
- Binary Moon Traffic Stats: February
- WordPress Tip: Modifying pluggable.php – How To Disable Emails
- Give Your Blog Some Loving This Valentines Day
- Binary Moon Traffic Stats: The Beginning
- How to Contribute to TimThumb
- My Plans For 2011
2010
- A New Secret to Increasing Your Page Views
- TimThumb: Improved Speed and Other Changes
- WordPress Advent – Seasonal WordPress Savings
- How I Increased Daily Twitter Followers by 300% in 10 minutes
- The Best Way to Use TimThumb with a CDN (and Why Amazon S3 Is Not so Good)
- TimThumb Troubleshooting Secrets
- Spring Cleaning in Autumn
- Hub Pages – the Center of your SEO Universe
- Unexpected Benefits of A/B Testing
- Nominate; New WordPress Theme Released
- Using TimThumb Part 4: Moving the Crop Location
- Using TimThumb Part 3: Image Filters
- Using TimThumb Part 2: External Websites
- Using TimThumb part 1: Getting Started
- The Green Zone
- Easy WordPress Updates: Store FTP Info in wp-config.php
- Hints and Tips to Make Your WordPress Development Easier
- Improve Your Blog, Revisit Old Content
- Lowercase p, dangit! WordPress Controversy
- Screenflow and My First Screencast
- The Wolfman
- Facebook Hackathon 2010
- WordPress Caching, part 3: Custom Caching Library
- What do you want me to write about?
- CSS Only Button – Redux
- WordPress caching, Part 2
- Add Website Favicons to Your WordPress Comments in 5 Minutes
- 6 Tips to Build Better WordPress Themes
- file_get_contents: A PHP Alternative to cURL
- How to Integrate Twitters @Anywhere with your WordPress Comments
- How to Add Widgets to your WordPress Themes
- How to Build the Perfect WordPress Sitemap
- Creating Words of Wisdom
- Using cURL to Read the Contents of a Web Page
- 9
- WordPress Caching, Part 1: The Basics
- March Movie Madness
- 10 WordPress query_posts tips you probably don’t know
- Toy Story 1, 2 and 3
- Realigning James Woodcock dot com
- Quick and Easy Popular Posts for Your WordPress Blog – in Only 1 Line of Code
- Using the Yahoo Weather API (in your WordPress themes)
- WordPress Http API – Read Content From Other Websites
- How to Use Akismet in your Plugin or Theme to Stop Spam Dead
- February Film Reviews
- Creating Your Own WordPress Permalink Structure For Custom Content
- An Intro to WordPress Filters: How to Add Custom Stuff to your RSS Feed
- An Automated Way to Take Screenshots of any Website, for Free, using Automattics MShots API
- Building WPVote Part 7: Almost Done
- New WordPress Theme, Accumulo, and New Free Plugin
- Building WPVote Part 6 : Planning for Lift Off
- Building WPVote Part 5 : Programming
- Building WPVote : Part 4b, The Logo Revisited
- Building WPVote Part 4 : Design
- Back and Forward: Plans for 2010
2009
- Building WPVote Part 3 : Research
- Building WPVote Part 2 : Planning
- WordPress MU 2.8: Beginner’s Guide review
- Bruno
- WordPress Developer Cookbook
- Optimising Social Media Activity
- Public Enemies
- Art Direction
- Coraline
- UP
- WordPress 2.9 – the_post_image
- How to Make TimThumb Work With WordPress Multisite
- The Boat That Rocked – iTunes Movie Review
- What’s new with the Elemental WordPress theme?
- Frost/ Nixon – NBC Universal iTunes movie
- Learning to Learn: how to improve yourself
- Binary Moon WordPress design vIII
- Doritos, an advergaming case study
- Duplicity : an iTunes movie review
- Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
- Fussing over the (web design) details
- A Brief History of TimThumb
- 5 web business lessons to be learnt from Avenue Q
- iPod Touch
- Elemental Development (aka what I’m doing at the moment)
- Joss Whedons Dollhouse
- 5 reasons why I don’t follow you on Twitter
- The future of WordPress themes
- Goodbye to blogging (as we know it)
- Mimbo Pro 2.0
- Balsamiq Mockups Review
- Bolt
- Hints and tips for Twitter noobs (and celebs)
- Top 17 – UK celebs on Twitter
- Back into the groove…
2008
- A quick way to speed up your website
- Tales of Beedle the Bard – new from JK Rowling
- 6 reasons why Lego is the best toy ever!
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars
- Chrome – first thoughts
- WordPress 2.7 and Crazyhorse
- Wall-E
- Ben and Jerry (and Jo)
- New plugin : BM Admin Tweak
- Seven useless pieces of information about me
- Anti smoking video game (advert)
- Redesigning the WordPress admin Redesign
- Google hosted javascript libraries
- How I built BenGillbanks.co.uk in a little over 2 hours
- WordPress themes, and assumed responsibility
- The trials and tribulations of maintaining multiple websites
- New Icon Set : Circular
- How to stop your WordPress blog from being hacked (or banned by Technorati)
- Twitter me this
- In the workplace
- bm trackPing – comments, trackbacks and pingbacks separated
- Pro Theme Design and Mimbo Pro
- EEE PC and me
- Happy Holidays – California
- BM-Comment-Highlight Guide
- New WordPress Plugin – BM Comment Highlight
- A 3 step guide to getting your WordPress plugin onto WordPress.org
- The Golden Compass
2007
- Tales of Beadle the Bard sold
- Videogames don’t make people stupid! Do they?
- Beowulf
- Regulus 2.3 theme update
- Websites versus Blogs
- Stardust
- Run, Fat boy, Run
- Athlete at Norwich LCR
- Roll – Flash Game
- Radioheads new album – pay as much as you like
- Ben’s Brother and Alice McLaughlin
- Top 10 Tips for driving traffic AWAY from your website
- The Simpsons Movie
- How to Optimise : Time Based Adsense
- My Top 5 Tips For Increasing Adsense Earnings (Without Increasing Traffic)
- Harry Potter – Unanswered Questions Answered
- WordPress Tips and Tricks – Custom Login Page
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Review
- Ratatouille Review: Part 2
- Damien Rice at the Brighton Dome
- Ratatouille Review: Part 1
- 3 Reasons why I suck as a blogger
- WordPress tips and tricks – custom 404 (error) pages
- WordPress tips and tricks – Custom Page Templates
- Harry Potter Conspiracy Theories #4
- 5 Google Analytics things I would change
- WordPress tips and tricks – functions.php
- Binary Moon search results
- Spiderman 3 Review
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- New Google Updates (Analytics, Reader, Adsense, and Checkout)
- The Virginia Tech tragedy and violent video games
- 300 + Paulo = Xerxes?
- 3 rules of effective cutscenes
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT) movie – competition
- Firefox Extensions I can’t live without
- Hot Fuzz
- New computer = new software to install
- Videogames blamed for… everything!
- Gun Wing, new Binary Sun game released
- Disney Ads Featuring Your Favorite Celebs
- Time in Istanbul
2006
- In game ads don’t work?
- Time in France
- Eragon – all pervasive
- Blogging for money – should I do it?
- Malaysia – Taman Negara
- Malaysia – The East Coast
- What has blogging given me?
- Malaysia – Cameron Highlands
- Malaysia – Kuala Lumpur and Pangkor
- WordPress Tips and Tricks – Post in Advance
- Regulus 2.2 – now with translations
- Binary Joy – gaming news and reviews website
- Regulus WordPress Theme in your language!
- Movie Roundup – August 06
- Firefly and Serenity
- Movie Roundup – July 06
- New Miniclip website
- Legitimate comment spam?
- Rubbish (dangerous) design
- Movie Roundup – June 06
- Game links roundup
- Miniclip wins Webby Award – I get to go to New York
- Movie Review – Confetti
- Movie Roundup – May 06
- Review : Shadow of the Colossus
- New Super Mario Brothers
- E3 2006 hi-lights
- Mission Impossible 3
- Movie Roundup – April 06
- WordPress tips and tricks – comments, trackbacks, and query_post
- Regulus – WordPress Theme version 2.1.2
- Regulus – WordPress Theme version 2.1
- Movie Roundup – March 06
- Prototype number 1
- Movie Roundup – February 06
- Off with their Huds (video game huds that is)
- I’m O.K – video game violence
- Adsense
- Movie Roundup – January 06
- Bubble Blitz Online
- Dev Diary : Design
- Prince of Persia – Two Thrones
- King Kong
- Happy New Year
2005
- Movie Roundup December 05
- EbayEd – Ebay Image Editor
- Grow Ornament – Christmas Flash game
- Regulus 2.0
- King Kong – Woahh
- Regulus in use
- My first Hookah (aka what I did in Estonia)
- Movie Roundup November 05
- Regulus – New WordPress Theme released
- Videogame Aesthetics and the Quest for Photo Realism
- Akismet – comment spam hell
- Dev Diary : Feature Set
- Harry Potter Conspiracy Theory #3: Snape
- Dev Diary : Game Design
- A Game of Thrones
- Game Development Diary – Introduction
- What I do at Miniclip
- Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
- Harry Potter Conspiracy Theory #2: Dumbledore
- The Free Sound Project
- Bubble Blitz release
- Harry Potter Conspiracy Theory #1: RAB
- 16 Things that Really Annoy Most Web Users
- Harry Potter Theories
- New Game Release Soon!
- A Book Baton
- Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
- Bubble Game Name..?
- Video Game Usability
- Google Earth
- Sin City
- My Next Game
- Star Wars Episode III : Revenge of the Sith- Review
- New Video Games
- The Design One
- Passwords – KeePass and BugMeNot
- Experimental Gameplay
- Hello world!