A while ago I would use a link shortener fairly regularly, both for personal use to make links and resources a bit easier to share, and for my business to make invoices/proposals/contracts/reports/etc in a standard format (finance.mysite.com/name-INV0010 was much nicer to send through in an email). Then a few years…
Envolver is a CLI tool that addresses the common challenge of managing changing environment variables in projects, particularly when multiple people work on them intermittently or in different time zones. It simplifies the process of identifying and updating new or altered variables, making it easier to maintain large applications with…
In a world that relies more and more on technology to go about our everyday lives, we as the creators of these technologies face an important responsibility to ensure that we're not excluding those that live around us and want to use what we're creating.
In this series of blog posts we're going to be looking at some of the fundamentals we need to know as modern front end developers. These fundamentals are framework agnostic, if you're building it for the web you should have an understanding of these concepts. To get started we're looking…
In recent years, we've started to see a lot more talking about mechanical keyboards, or at least I've definitely seen it happening a lot more with developers and in tech. And while this wasn't a band wagon I was planning to jump onto, turns out a lot of the time…
What does web front-end development look like in 2023? Carl and Richard chat with Amy Kapernick about her work helping companies build web front ends with a vast array of tools. Amy talks about how client frameworks continue to evolve, extending the so-called "big three" of Angular, Vue, and React…
Last week I joined on her live stream at NDC London to talk about CSS Grid and implementing it on her personal site. Throughout the hour on stream we audited the existing CSS layout, making a couple of changes to how Flexbox was being used, then added CSS Grid…
Until now, most websites I've built that need regular front end tests are hosted on Netlify, so when they introduce Netlify build plugins that made my life much easier, I was able to very easily run a bunch of tests on my website and only publish if it passed. However…
Towards the end of 2021, I got the chance to create an online course centred on accessibility and accessibility testing for . This was an interesting experience as my indepth foray into creating video media, but a lot of fun to get to share accessibility learnings, tips and techniques with…
In this series of blog posts, we'll be talking about the skills and giving tips, tricks and feedback on planning, creating and presenting a talk. This comes from our experience as tech conference speakers, but most of the advice is applicable in a wide variety of settings and talk topics.
In this series of blog posts, we'll be talking about the skills and giving tips, tricks, and feedback on planning, creating, and presenting a talk. This comes from our experience as tech conference speakers, but most of the advice can be applied in a wide variety of settings and talk…
It's that time of year again, DDD Perth is ! After a slightly smaller event in 2021, we're back for 2022 and this year we're aiming for bigger and better than ever before, something we can't do without an amazing lineup of talent to be our speakers. If you haven't…
Towards to end of last year I decided to go for it and install Windows 11. Now keeping in mind that I was installing it on my only computer, and only a couple of days before I ran a workshop, it probably wasn't the best idea (everyone knows you don't…