Oct 24, 2018Member-onlyHow to seal your tubeless wheelI wrote this guide as a result of trial and error, watching dozens of YouTube videos that omitted all troubleshooting, and trawling forums filled with hyperbole. I started my tubeless journey with 7 evenings of swearing at a set of Schwalbe Pro Ones when I could have been hanging out…Cycling12 min read
Dec 29, 2016Member-onlyMoving a static website to AWS S3 + CloudFront with HTTPSThis Christmas I managed to pick up the worst cold I’ve had in years. Instead of heading out and crushing the Festive 500km challenge I decided to stay home and brush up on some tech while performing some website housekeeping for willmorgan.co.uk. In the 2 years I’ve had the site…AWS10 min read
Nov 26, 2016Redux and Universal JS: observations, and how it’s changed my programming styleIn 2016, the year of JavaScript fatigue, there’s still a lot to be learned by trying out some of the technology being peddled on Hacker News. Redux is a simplistic Flux architecture that encourages you to carefully think about how you structure the domains within your application, forces the concept…Java Script3 min read
Jun 12, 2016Things I wish I knew before I started commuting by bikeI’ve been cycling to work now for about 10 months, although I started writing this post after 2 months. The experience, by and large, has been overwhelmingly pleasant. I have a great route, the weather has been unusually kind, and I’ve got fitter by a ridiculous magnitude without really trying. …Cycling4 min read
Oct 25, 2015Drum & bass familyHLZ — Gaia I had a great Friday evening this week, and it made me truly realise how lucky I am to be part of such a beautiful scene, as strange as it seems to outsiders look upon it. I’ve recently made the choice to give alcohol a rest, at…Music2 min read
Oct 10, 2015Troubleshooting Node performanceThis is a short chronicle of an incredibly interesting period I enjoyed in August this year, spent debugging and scaling a fast-growing NodeJS application that had just been rolled out to a larger userbase. It tested my knowledge on Node’s processing model, how to work under a bombardment of automated…Programming6 min read
Oct 3, 2015Just enjoyed tweaking bike cables and gearsets for half an hour.Just enjoyed tweaking bike cables and gearsets for half an hour. Takes me back to the joys of playing with Lego as a kid and made me realise that the default mindset of a lot of people these days is to always replace, never repair, and never get your hands…Cycling1 min read
Jul 13, 2015Liquid lunch: some thoughts on JoylentA few years ago via Hacker News (where else?), I heard about Soylent, the powdered food eerily named after the film. …Food6 min read
Dec 31, 2014Automatic cache busting powered by GitI’ve been meaning to use Gulp for a while now — I’ve normally used Grunt for builds. I decided to use Gulp to take care of builds for my single page personal website. So far I’ve been pleased with how much easier and expressive it is to set up builds…2 min read
Dec 17, 2014Speed up your Vagrant boxes on WindowsGo and use WinNFSD ☺ https://gist.github.com/willmorgan/0d1779d9d1933371b23c1 min read
