Peter Bryant

Peter Bryant

Default apps 2024

💡Inspired by this post by Dan Hannigan, who was inspired by a bunch of other folks. 📨 Mail Client: Mail (on both iOS and macOS) 📮 Mail Server: iCloud / Gmail 📝 Notes: Apple Notes / Bear ✅ To-Do: Bullet journal / Apple Reminders 📷 Photo Shooting: iPhone 13 Pro 🎨 Photo Editing: iOS Photos app 📆 Calendar: Apple Calendar

How I manage my ADHD

How I manage my ADHD

I have undiagnosed ADHD. Without going into specifics, this means I have a lot of challenges around attention, memory, motivation, and executive function. I procrastinate a lot, struggle to focus on certain kinds of tasks, and forget about stuff. Because my ADHD is undiagnosed, and I'm not able

The floggings will continue until morale improves

Personal Development

The floggings will continue until morale improves

On the absurdity of punishing ourselves in pursuit of success.

How to edit photos if you're colourblind

Photography Featured

How to edit photos if you're colourblind

Colourblind people can still be wonderful photographers.

Wix Studio is terrible

Software Engineering

Wix Studio is terrible

I had a task this week: to make a website for a friend. All he wanted was a few static pages, then one CMS-connected page displaying a list of items, with a couple of links and embedded media. He didn’t want to have to fiddle about with the website

This budgeting app changed my life

Personal Development

This budgeting app changed my life

This isn’t a typical “this app changed my life” post. Most of those seem to be written within a few days of someone trying a new app for the first time. This app recommendation comes off the back of over 2 years of continuous use. Without this app, my

Back to bullet journals

Personal Development

Back to bullet journals

Bullet journalling is the only productivity system that has ever truly worked for me. Despite that, I suffer greatly from "shiny object syndrome", particularly when it comes to apps and software. The problem is that there are some absolutely beautiful apps in the productivity space, and I want

Personal Development

Just run

For years, I've felt unfit. When I was at high school, I did two karate sessions every week, which always included an element of fitness training. I was skinny, and reasonably strong. I also used to walk 2 miles to school and back, every single day, on Sheffield&

I'm still adjusting to remote work guilt

I'm still adjusting to remote work guilt

Like much of the rest of the world, I experienced a sudden and unexpected transition to fully remote work in early 2020. This temporary change ended up sticking, and I've now been working from home for over 4 years. Clearly, this was a huge adjustment for all sorts

In the real world, refactoring is a software engineer's secret weapon

Software Engineering

In the real world, refactoring is a software engineer's secret weapon

Anyone can build a perfect codebase from scratch. Learning to refactor legacy code is an essential but oft-neglected skill.

Flutter needs to break free from Material

Software Engineering

Flutter needs to break free from Material

I've been lucky to work on a large number of Flutter apps from scratch. Each time, we have done what we believed to be the right thing: started with a MaterialApp and tweaked it to suit the style of our app. I think a lot of Flutter devs

How to actually do TDD in Flutter

Software Engineering

How to actually do TDD in Flutter

This post is the result of a months-long existential crisis about how to do testing in Flutter apps. There are so many resources, tutorials, and opinions on how this should be done, but most of them give what is, in my opinion, bad advice. The aim of this post is