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Boye & Co Digital Leaders and CMS Experts, Feb 2026

Simon R Jones — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 21:38:34 +0000

I spent a very engaging couple of days with Boye & Company last week at the UK Digital Leadership and CMS Experts meetups. It’s a great community, expertly steered by Janus Boye and is always a highlight for me and chance to slow down, listen and reflect. It was great to hear about people’s challenges …

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Listing Composer dependencies in CSV format

Simon R Jones — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 10:14:50 +0000

We work with larger public sector organisations who often require lists of third party dependencies we use on projects. I took at look at the different ways you can list all Composer dependencies in a PHP project. This command lists all PHP dependencies in a project: composer show However, this displays as text. The compliance …

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WordCamp US 2024

Simon R Jones — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 22:08:03 +0000

Matt Mullenweg opened his WordCamp US 2024 Q&A presentation with “this may be one of my spiciest WordCamp presentations ever.” He went on to publicly attack WP Engine (a sponsor at Word Camp US) and the private equity firm behind them, Silver Lake. This left many attendees with a very negative ending to WordCamp. Matt …

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New Year 2024

Simon R Jones — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 21:06:20 +0000

I’ve had a really relaxing Christmas break with the family this year, only opening my laptop to read my friend’s advent murder mystery. I sit here drinking a Christmas beer (a Belgium beer called Père Noël by De Ranke) writing a short post summing up 2023 and my hopes for this year. In a minute …

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2022

Simon R Jones — Sun, 01 Jan 2023 19:55:52 +0000

It’s been a while since I posted an end of year review, so thought I’d have a go! Work It’s been a busy year at Studio 24 and I was really ready for a break by Christmas. It feels like we’re finally coming out of the pandemic years properly. We had our 11th Studio Day …

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A little bit about filesize units (KB, MB, etc)

Simon R Jones — Sun, 09 Jan 2022 21:44:41 +0000

I helped my 14-year old son with his homework today and there was a question about how to convert from Kilobytes (KB) to Megabytes (MB). My instinct was to tell him to divide by 1024 (the more technically accurate version of a KB) but we both decided the answer they wanted was 1,000. In my …

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Error monitoring tools and UK/European data storage for GDPR compliance

Simon R Jones — Tue, 14 Dec 2021 18:08:06 +0000

At Studio 24 we work with a lot of government and public sector clients, who are understandly keen to comply with GDPR and are therefore careful about where data is sent and stored. There is a strong preference to use services that store all data within UK or the European Economic Area (EEA). This is …

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