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Paul Singh.
Paul Singh is a web developer who writes Something Decent: opinions, brain dumps and the odd bit of honest coding advice. Always original, never sponsored.
38 posts since 2015
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- Opinions & Blogs · 29 posts
- Development & Coding · 9 posts
Every post by Paul Singh
Opinions & Blogs· 2 min of your life
You lot know you can turn it off, right?→
With numerous AI providers 'sounding the alarm' for humanity's existential threat it seems like someone should remind us all of how computers work
Opinions & Blogs· 10 min of your life
You're absolutely right! GoPro's support is just AI Slop→
My attempt to get help from GoPro's AI-powered support, and what it says about companies replacing humans with AI slop.
Opinions & Blogs· 2 min of your life
Comfort in the chaos→
A reflection on how the everyday order of modern life sits on top of chaos, and why that should bring comfort rather than dread.
Opinions & Blogs· 5 min of your life
The AI Dilemma→
A brain dump on the AI gold rush: why shoehorning AI into everything leaves me both impressed and deeply uneasy.
Opinions & Blogs· 2 min of your life
If One Thing is Infinite, Everything is Infinite→
A late-night thought experiment about infinity: if one thing in the universe is truly infinite, everything else must be too.
Opinions & Blogs· 3 min of your life
Everybody's Weird→
A conversation in India about feeling weird turns into a reflection on why every one of us is strange, and why that's fine.
Opinions & Blogs· 2 min of your life
Everything is F*ck'd and That's Perfect→
An acknowledgement that the world is a mess, and an argument for why accepting the mess is the first step to being at peace with it.
Development & Coding· 5 min of your life
React Components and Dynamic HTML Data Attributes→
How to pass dynamic HTML data attributes to React components with a reusable, type-safe pattern.
Opinions & Blogs· 8 min of your life
The Problem with A/B Testing (Stop Calling it Conversion Rate Optimisation)→
Why most A/B testing isn't really conversion rate optimisation, from an engineer who has spent years building the tests.
Opinions & Blogs· 7 min of your life
Proposal for an Industry-Wide Crypto Recovery Plan→
A proposal for how the crypto industry could recover trust after the latest crash, beyond waiting for the next bull run.
Opinions & Blogs· 8 min of your life
Being Mixed-Race is Weird→
I can distinctly remember my introduction to the concept of race. It occurred when I was 5 - 6 years old, walking home from school.
Opinions & Blogs· 3 min of your life
A New Direction for Something Decent→
As part of my new year's cleanup I have decided to attempt to tidy up Something Decent and take the site in a new direction.
Development & Coding· 3 min of your life
JavaScript Proxies, a Lesser Known Super Power, another article by ChatGPT→
An ELI5 explanation of the JavaScript Proxy class, written by ChatGPT as another experiment in AI-generated content.
Development & Coding· 4 min of your life
Javascript Events, Who's Listening? an Article by ChatGPT→
An ELI5 introduction to JavaScript event listeners, written by ChatGPT as an experiment in AI-generated content.
Development & Coding· 8 min of your life
CRO Development, a Brief Introduction→
A frontend developer's introduction to conversion rate optimisation: what CRO is, how test builds work and what the job actually involves.
Development & Coding· 11 min of your life
Get Started with Trellis, Bedrock and Sage→
A practical guide to setting up a modern WordPress development stack with the Roots ecosystem: Trellis, Bedrock and Sage.
Development & Coding· 4 min of your life
Learn with a Layman: Beginning with the Basics... CSS (Part 1)→
Part one of the CSS basics: what stylesheets are, how selectors work and how to start styling your first web page.
Opinions & Blogs· 5 min of your life
London to Glasgow (or St. Albans) by Foot - How I Learnt the Importance of a Good Tent→
How my attempt to walk from London to Glasgow ended in St. Albans, and taught me the importance of a good tent.
Opinions & Blogs· 5 min of your life
London to Glasgow by Foot (Hopefully)→
The plan: walk from London to Glasgow. The kit, the route and the questionable optimism behind the attempt.
Development & Coding· 5 min of your life
Animate the Click Event With Pure CSS→
How to animate an element on click without JavaScript, using pure CSS in place of the usual event listener.
Development & Coding· 8 min of your life
Learn With a Layman: Beginning With The Basics→
The basics of how HTML, CSS and JavaScript fit together, explained in plain English for absolute beginners.
Development & Coding· 10 min of your life
Learn With a Layman: An Introduction→
The introduction to Learn With a Layman, a beginner-friendly series for taking your first steps toward learning JavaScript.
Opinions & Blogs· 5 min of your life
Can We Really Have Democracy Without Conscious Sovereignty?→
Do we really have democracy? How can it be so when we do not possess total sovereignty over our own consciousness?
Opinions & Blogs· 4 min of your life
London Pride 2019 and My Lesson In Partying Solo→
On July the 6th 2019 the world celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Pride gay rights movement. I attended London's festival alone.
Opinions & Blogs· 3 min of your life
Alabama's Anti-Abortion Ruling is a Huge Step Backwards for the Human Race→
The recent anti abortion ruling by the Alabama State Senate represents a huge step back for the progression of society.
Opinions & Blogs· 12 min of your life
Travel Tips for Backpacking in India→
Practical travel tips for backpacking in India: staying healthy, staying safe and making the most of the sub-continent.
Opinions & Blogs· 6 min of your life
Extinction Rebellion Have Highlighted the Issue, When Will the Elite Listen?→
The Extinction Rebellion protests are gaining worldwide publicity but when will the world's elite listen to the masses about climate change?
Opinions & Blogs· 5 min of your life
Thinking in Binary When Life is One Big Decimal Point→
An opinion piece which questions the binary thinking pattern which is used by many people with polar ideologies.
Opinions & Blogs· 6 min of your life
Animal Aid Unlimited: A Non-Profit Saving Animals in Udaipur→
Animal Aid Unlimited is a non profit organisation based in Udaipur, India. We volunteered for a week and saw the work they do first hand.
Opinions & Blogs· 2 min of your life
London's ULEZ Charge, Another Tax on the City's Financially Unstable→
London's proposed ULEZ charges will affect the city's financially unstable by hitting them with extortionate charges for going to work.
Opinions & Blogs· 4 min of your life
The Irony of People's Reaction to Elon Musk Smoking Weed with Joe Rogan→
Elon Musk took a couple tokes on Joe Rogan's weed joint and the world lost their mind while forgetting his real message.
Opinions & Blogs· 3 min of your life
Travelling, Happiness & the Lack of Social Media→
On travelling without social media: what a month away from the feeds taught me about happiness and being present.
Opinions & Blogs· 4 min of your life
Cyclists, are we Really Such a Nuisance?→
A London cyclist asks whether cyclists really deserve their bad reputation, and what cycle-shaming says about how we share the road.
Opinions & Blogs· 4 min of your life
Remember 'knocking for someone'?→
A nostalgic look back at knocking for your mates: life as a youth before the internet and mobile phones took over.
Opinions & Blogs· 1 min of your life
No, I want fries IN that!→
A pointless-but-important rant about burgers: why don't burger joints put the chips inside the burger by default?
Opinions & Blogs· 8 min of your life
My Disastrous Norway Adventure Blog (Part Two)→
Part two of my disastrous Norway adventure: driving through the mountains as the mishaps continue to stack up.
Opinions & Blogs· 6 min of your life
My Disastrous Norway Adventure Blog (Part One)→
Part one of my disastrous Norway adventure: a road trip of camping mishaps, wrong turns and lessons learnt the hard way.
Opinions & Blogs· 2 min of your life
If you're looking for decent summer playlists, check these YouTube channels→
A short list of YouTube channels serving up great summer playlists full of remixes, chillout mixes and deep house tunes.