This is my guide to using IKEA LÖVA leaf bed canopies for an adult size bed, for example for co-sleeping in a family bed with your kids. This might also work well for adults with sensory needs. It involves 3D printed components, which can be ordered from a third party if you don’t have access…Continue reading Ikea LÖVA co-speepling leaf canopy hack for bed sharing with kids
How to take Screenshots of a banking app on android
I’m working on a series of blogs about banking apps, and screenshots are important to document what I see: however some banking apps don’t allow screenshots at all. Starling, for example, has an option to enable screenshots for 15 minutes but Cooperative Bank doesn’t have that option. Getting round this took me while to figure…Continue reading How to take Screenshots of a banking app on android
How I chose hardware for my Hexos NAS
Welcome to my first blog about HexOS: I’m buying, building and installing a NAS for my family home. I’m documenting my user journey as a small contribution to this amazing project. For about a decade I’ve wanted private home server to backup my family photos and media. However as a busy single mum I’ve not…Continue reading How I chose hardware for my Hexos NAS
What I learned making websites for charities
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