Several years ago I came across Ecosia, a search engine which helps the environment through planting trees. I didn't adopt it back then, partly because the impact of what they do was lost on me somewhat, and partly because I didn't find the actual results or the usability as good as what I was used to. Both of these have now changed so I wanted to share.

The start of a new year is always a good time for setting out resolutions for the time ahead. With that in mind, I decided to set out some intentions for this year (and beyond).

Have you ever wanted a full list of colours used for the various programming languages on GitHub? No? Well if you ever do, I've put together a collection of various palette formats containing them all, along with a Python script which builds them.

In the past I've put together a couple of jQuery plugins which have just been knocking around on GitHub. Since they might still be useful - particularly on older/legacy projects - I've belatedly made them both available to install via NPM.

Following the recent announcement from 3D Hubs regarding their future direction, which puts the focus firmly on B2B and no longer on makers, hobbyists and small businesses, the 3D printing services I offer will be changing in the near future.

Back in 2013, I released my MarkEmbling.Utils package containing a bunch of extension methods, helpers and so on which I often re-use across various projects. Since then, a lot has changed in the .NET world and the time has come for me to revisit this package, giving it some much-needed attention and correcting a few decisions which in hindsight were not the best choices.