Busy Monday morning already getting social media posts and project proposals out the door! Time for a cuppa tea and kitten break 😁 Anyone else still powering through with the hot drinks in this weather? 😅 🫖

This month I'm celebrating 15 years of running my local networking group! #pfmeet #networking #portsmouth #southsea joloveridge.co.uk/15-years-of-...

Why are gradient borders still not a thing that exists in CSS? I know you can create the illusion with pseudo elements but I have a specific button design where the border should be a gradient, and the inside be transparent, and I can't find a way to do it

Just had a fun hour battling with @godaddy.com and their ridiculous amount of authentication needed to do anything with domains or support. Spoke to live chat and to someone on the phone at the same time - lady on the phone said we didn't need SSL, live chat tried to sell me one for $350 😂

Very excited for this youtu.be/m08TxIsFTRI?...

It's Squid Game SE3 day! 🤩

Sidebars on blogs - yes or no? I'm reading up a lot about it and still undecided.

Sleeping behind my monitor

Was very excited to get a delivery of my tea & coffee from local music studio The Foundry. I went with the half caff coffee 'Lo-Fi' and their Brewdio English breakfast tea. Have to say it's very tasty Also thought this would be a good opportunity to try out my new Canon R6 😍

Say hello to Rocket, our new baby 😍

Cannot tell you how excited I am to unbox this

Lovely testimonial from a lovely client: Bluecube. More clients like this please! I have some availability this summer so give me a shout if you have a project in mind!

This mornings spam email lol “I came across your website while searching on Google and noticed that it currently doesn't appear in the organic search listings”

I just discovered that if you Google 'Geocities', this happens

Just been down to my local camera shop to play with the new mirrorless Canon's (having worked with a 60D for the last 13 years) and now I'm pining after an R6 Mark II 😭 It's absolutely phenomenal.

Really happy to share this case study and testimonial from Bluecube Cloud Services www.starboardmedia.co.uk/case-study/b... - I've been working a lot with them over the last couple of months producing all sorts of print, web design and social media material for them!

Finally got round to adding the latest case studies to my freelance portfolio site. It's hard work managing 2 websites 😅 joloveridge.co.uk/projects/

Really excited to share this case study & testimonial with you! I've been working with local Portsmouth band The Seed on their branding & social media, as well as creating a bespoke website. Read all about here: www.starboardmedia.co.uk/case-study/t...

Was feeling inspired by the festival season, so I put together my own made up dream festival and designed a poster to go with it. Keen to hear what others dream line ups would be? 👀 🎸 🎷 www.starboardmedia.co.uk/designing-my... #design #music #posterdesign #sideproject

Been a bit quiet because I've been busy working with local band The Seed on their branding, social media and new website! Launched this week: the-seed.co.uk Will be adding a case study to my site real soon! #newsitelaunch #portsmouth #southsea #localband

My 'currently loving' album on my Blog www.starboardmedia.co.uk/blog/ at the moment is L'Avenue - Tokyo Nights. It's the ultimate dreamy moody synthwave album 😍 open.spotify.com/album/6pD2wl...

Absolutely loved this weeks episode of The Last of Us 🥺

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This started off as a quick Instagram post but somehow ended up as a blog post. Anyone else still using a pen and paper/whiteboard? #projectmanagement #freelance #homeoffice joloveridge.co.uk/sometimes-th...

She’s come dressed as the audience #eurovision

For years, one of the most befuddling things for me in CSS was how “height: 100%” would sometimes just not work. Every time I tried to use it was a roll of the dice. 😅 Like everything else in CSS, though, it all makes perfect sense when we understand the underlying mechanism. ✨ Let’s explore. 🧵

Is naming blocks genuinely one of the hardest parts of a CMS build? I just wrote a blog about it: joloveridge.co.uk/is-naming-bl... #wordpress #cms #accessibility #a11y

Been working my way through the earlier seasons of QI recently, amazing how it’s nearly entirely male panelist’s. I’m on Series E which was in 2007. The only female contestants I can remember in 5 series so far are Jo Brand and Jessica Hynes.

Already obsessed with the new Sleep Token album 😍 #sleeptoken open.spotify.com/album/1lS7Fe...

Wow Gulp 3 seems insanely slow after using Gulp 4

Very happy to have launched my new Starboard website today! This has been my life for the past few weeks, and I'm so excited to see it go live! starboardmedia.co.uk

Anyone else having problems with Lighthouse? This is what I get when I try to run it from Chrome

New @taskmaster.tv cast is absolutely fantastic, can’t remember laughing this much at a TM series in ages 😂 So excited for the whole season #taskmaster

Tonight's coding session is powered by this amazing Swedish electronic artist #covenant #electronicmusic open.spotify.com/album/2ulFih...

Ran WordPress 6.8 updates today, only for there to be a new release (6.8.1) this evening 🫠😂 #wordpress

So close to finishing the Starboard site that I'm still up working on it now, I very rarely work in the evenings but I'm so excited it's difficult to put down!

Here at Last Club Friday for the first time with @studiomunster.bsky.social

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Feeling shell shocked after this weeks episode of The Last Of Us

Off for a lovely sunny weekend in Wales 😅

Spotify seems to be down (Desktop app) so dusted off the vinyls. One of my fave EP's by The Midnight 😍

Tonight is Portsmouth Freelancers Meet - 6:30pm at the Sir Loin of Beef. Free networking for creative types and freelancers in #Portsmouth & #Southsea #pfmeet pfmeet.co.uk

Having a blast through Coldplay's back catalogue today (please don't judge me), first 4 albums are 🔥 Not quite sure what Moon Music is all about 🫠

Not sure what setting I've put ChatGPT on but every reply to my questions sound like someone who's halfway through a bottomless brunch and can't wait to get on the karaoke machine later.

Got such motivation to get my new website up at the moment, whilst I've not got the energy for coding this evening, I've just put together a content creation plan for social media, and the new blog I'm adding to Starboard. Buzzing with ideas!

Rewatching The Last of Us ready for season 2 👀👀

Want to give a shout out to mural.co - such a great tool for doing things like collaborative mind mapping, quick wireframing, etc (I have used it to create User Personas). Just had a lovely experience with their customer service helping me recover an old Mural I needed access to

Once I've finished writing the case studies (the template is designed already), my next step is to book in some photography time to get a whole set of new photos taken for my site. Whilst Stock images have their place, you can't beat authentic, original pics!

The last 2 days I have mostly been writing client case studies for my new site. It's been really fun looking back and appreciating how many amazing businesses and agencies I've worked with over the years (one since 2009!). Can't wait to share these with you

I actually have time to work on my own stuff this week! Here's a little preview of a very long overdue re-design of my Starboard site #comingsoon