Tom Maslen·May 30, 20176 secret coding tips to improve your NodeJSIf you could time travel backwards to 6 months ago, what would you do? Buy shares in an anti-virus company? Tell Jared Kushner not to go to that meeting? Or maybe book your May 2017 holiday with a company other than British Airways? If I could time travel backwards to…Java Script13 min read
Tom Maslen·Oct 4, 2016Using NodeJS to build Tweetgest’s statically published websiteI’ve been making websites for almost 20 years. One of the reasons why I began web development was because of the rapid feedback cycle: make a change to a file in a text editor, quick tab to the browser, hit refresh and see the change immediately. …Web Development8 min read
Tom Maslen·May 10, 2016Tweetgest ColophonHere’s the tech stack I’ve used to create and maintain Tweetgest. Architecture overview Tweetgest is primarily a set of NodeJS scripts hosted on an AWS EC2 instance that are periodically ran via cronjobs to ingest and process Twitter data. …Web Development5 min read