What’s the 411 with Sydney

As Christmas has been and gone faster than Snapchat stories, that’s me heading into my 5th month down under! It feels like yesterday I was sitting somewhere near Newcastle in a business park, working with an all male developer team, looking out the window at a large prison, hovering my finger over the Visa application...

Idiot Abroad Diaries: Flights, Flats and Jobs in Australia

Since moving to Sydney three weeks ago, I have made a momentous amount of idiot abroad errors mainly relating to flats, jobs and my stuff. Despite now finally securing a roof over my head and a legal source of income, my bank account has taken unnecessary explosions and I have wasted an embarrassing amount of...

Houghton – what a hoot it was

Two weeks ago, I made the 9-hour journey from Edinburgh to Norfolk to endure 4 days of techno woodland rave with almost everyone I had ever met from a red brick university / English public school. Despite some lucky twits securing £80 tickets off Twitter, in a drunken mid-week dinner I had purchased the full...

Facebook marketplace – is it legit?

As Facebook continues to seep into every single action and process in my daily life, it only made logical sense to start shopping there when I wanted to buy a MacBook Pro. I think this was a 50% subconscious decision as the newly designed marketplace icon is now appearing slam dunk in the middle of...

Why is it so hard to orbit out of London?

So you moan about the weather, rent, transport, the government, your job and the price of a pint, but you’re not actually going to do anything about it are you? How come the weight of all of these negative attributes never over rules your London routine, and you always push back that big move to...

Why is sonar worth 5 visits?

June 15th year in year out marks an annual essential occasion that may as well be ingrained in the Apple iCalendar as it is as important as Christmas Day – Sonar festival. The backdrop of Barcelona with its surrounding beaches and mountains, combined with 1 euro street beers, and semi-illegal non air-conditioned Air BnB’s puts...

SO you wanna HTML up in my CSS?

If you like me have realized that the future is not wearing a suit in a skyscraper, it is in fact wearing dungarees behind a computer, you’ll have clocked that JavaScript is looking a little bit sexier with every year that passes. This December in an attempt to live out my life-long dream of working...

The complete and utter truth about Coachella

This April I decided to take the plunge, both financially and culturally, and try an American festival. Coachella has a global reputation for being an Insta famous gathering of LA rich kids running wild in the desert, so I thought I best go and see if this was true. Before even stepping foot in Palm...

AlmaDeAce Feature: Spectators, Producers, Thumbs Up Squad & their texting rules

Being in a world where the iPhone has become our fifth limb and there is wifi on public transport, it is no shock that we are all functioning addicts of instant messaging and social media stalking. Sometimes, sending a Whatsapp is more important than paying council tax. With this increased amount of communication, there are...

Faux Pas of 2017 social media

When you realise you want to message a friend in 2017, you really need to think how am I going to do this. Do you slide on into their DM’s on Instagram?? Do you Giff them on Facebook? Do you send a picture of your face looking like a thumb on Snapchat with a caption?...