Conor Smith

How To Write A Road Runner Cartoon

Thanks to a brave whistleblower, I got my hands on the original list for writing Road Runner cartoons.

The Truth Is In Here

These days conspiracy theories abound. Almost every single one of them is wrong. But sometimes there’s a nugget of truth buried within.

Hillary Clinton Will Be There For You

It’s no secret that Hillary Clinton is determined, at times desperate, to mobilise the youth vote in the upcoming US presidential election.

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Children of Pintmen

Longest Running

Quiet Silas

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Breaking Into Hollywood

"I know we're all worried about how well Logan is performing. Domestic box office alone is far greater than we predicted."

A Retrospective of Cadbury's Looney Tunes Bars

In the early 1990s Warner Brothers forged a historic deal with Cadbury to create a range of chocolate bars shaped like their popular Looney Tunes characters.

Friends Spinoffs That Could Have Been

We are living in one of six separate yet parallel realities, each of which was split from a single shared reality. This was caused by the choice of character on which to base a spinoff of Friends.

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Two Sided Rubber Ducky

Expressive Tests with the Builder Pattern

I’ve been experimenting with techniques to keep my tests clean and expressive.

Named Constructors in PHP

The named constructor pattern lets you to have multiple means of instantiating an object in a semantic manner.

Console Output with Generators

A problem I’ve found with command line applications is that you often find you want to output messages to the console at various points during the application’s execution.

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Top 10 Albums of 2022

The year is 2022. Music?

Top 10 Albums of 2021

The year is 2021. I don't even want to be around anymore.

Top 10 Albums of 2020

The year is 2020. Fuck. Fuck!

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