Every web developer has faced this conundrum: which dependency should I pick? Why did we select jQuery over Prototype, or Prototype over Mootools, or Vue over React, or Angular over Ember, or Lodash over underscore and so on a forever for unlimited combinations for unlimited dependencies. My own process is…

There’s odd excitement around dark themes these days, but I find that being able to switch between a light and dark theme to be really useful for working conditions (i.e. bright light or in the evenings). I’ve got shortcuts to toggle my: OS, Visual Studio Code and iTerm2. Toggle theme in MacOS The simplest…

Early this year (pre country-wide lockdown), my son, 8¼, asked that I start doing “Coding Mondays” with him and his sister (then 5½). Though the littlest wasn’t so interested in programming (though she had some fun with BASIC, as story for another day), so far the boy has managed to…

What follows is a blog post that I had partially written over 10 years ago. In fact, I started writing it on an afternoon on 31st Jan 2009. …

I’m not good a prompting my own stuff usually (I think) but I think it should make a lot of sense to promote my own hard work on my own blog. It’s the infamous black friday and “cyber monday” (the one where the shops try to stretch out the sales)…

As a software developer I’m using tools day in and day out and depending on time, I’m usually interested in alternatives that help my workflow whilst reducing the amount of input required from me. I have been asked (and sponsored) to look at Buddy a deployment platform. I’d already read…

ffconf 2019, our eleventh version wrapped up last Friday and it’s fair to say that even now as I write, I feel full of love from the people that took part and made the day what it was. As always, we snapped up a picture of all our amazing attendees…

During my React based development, I’ll find myself importing a module from '../../../components/Widget' and that ../../../ is anyone's guess if it's right first time or not. Except I discovered that Next.js (which is what I do most of my React dev with) ships with a trick up its sleeve. Alias Next.js…

This month in 2019, the W3C turns 25 and in their blog post they encourage others to share their own web stories. So here’s mine. It starts in the 80s with a Sinclair ZX81. (Yes, I’m going to rewind this far back!). Childhood I was lucky/privileged enough to grow up in…