This is just a brief wrap up Gingerling Design, including my ethos and motivation for making websites trading under that name. That project is now closed and I don’t do this work anymore following my dads death, however, I learned a lot so good to jot it down! Charity sector website burnout In my long…Continue reading What I learned making websites for charities
Monzo review
When I was working on a personal carbon footprint tracker with Cogo, I spent a lot of time looking at banking apps. Cogo used Open Banking to pull over users day to day transactions and then assigned each transaction a carbon footprint. I was pretty surprised at how much variety there was in banking app…Continue reading Monzo review
Member mobilization for Labour Party
I got the call 10 minutes before Rishi Sunak stepped into the rain to call the election: “We need you, can you start work right now?” Within an hour I had built the spreadsheet, imported in some initial data and started calling members. By the next day I had merged in more data from from…Continue reading Member mobilization for Labour Party
QA Analyst for Open Banking Carbon Footprint tracker
Who do call if you’ve got an app to repurpose, a team of developers starting any day, a behavioral science department raring to go and a ton of transaction data to sort out? Hopefully me! With experience of quality assurance, data analysis, a psychology degree and personal climate activism, this job was a perfect fit.…Continue reading QA Analyst for Open Banking Carbon Footprint tracker
Using Feefo with Prestashop/Thirybees
I set up feefo with my prestashop store but due to unrelated personal circumstances I never did much work with the website after this. Here are my notes from the time, tidied up a bit. Appologies the post lacks narrative, it’s got details of how I did each task without much info on what the…Continue reading Using Feefo with Prestashop/Thirybees
3 things they don’t tell you about co-sleeping
Co-sleeping, specifically “safe bed sharing”, is when you sleep with your baby in bed with you. This should only be done after you have taken steps to make it safe, even if you just do it accidentally or briefly. Here are two safety information pages: Lullaby Trust and Basics. Personally, I choose to bed share…Continue reading 3 things they don’t tell you about co-sleeping
Elimination Communication with a newborn baby
What is Elimination Communication? Most babies communicate a few things early on: they say “I’m hungry” with cues like rooting or hand sucking and “I need to burp” with grimaces and gurning! The practice of “Elimination Communication” tries to add cues for “I need to poo/wee” to the list of things the parent/s understand and…Continue reading Elimination Communication with a newborn baby
What induction of labour feels like
I wrote most of this post this while having my labour induced at 39 weeks because the baby wasn’t growing enough. I was basically “on time” for my due date, and my body was mostly ready for birth. A disclaimer, I have Hypermobility Spectrum Disorder and the induction process started working very quickly on me.…Continue reading What induction of labour feels like
Campaign Infrastructure for Momentum
In early 2020 I set up Momentum’s phone-banking infrastructure and database. Following the 2020 General Election campaign, Momentum would work on the Rebecca for Leader Campaign: they needed to rapidly pivot their suite of tools to a new focus, while carefully navigating privacy rules. They needed urgent help to set up a new Nationbuider instance…Continue reading Campaign Infrastructure for Momentum
Bulk Remove Meta Data from Photos in Linux
Quick note to self (and anyone else who is interested). You can bulk remove metadata from photos using gThumb on Fedora Linux (and probably all gnome based Linuxes and others besides) Navigate to a folder with all the images in Select all (control+a) Right click on the selection Choose open with gThumb In gThumb again,…Continue reading Bulk Remove Meta Data from Photos in Linux