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We all know that testing is important, your project can't be run unless all your unit and integration tests are written (and pass), but we often forget about testing the front end. There are so many different tests we need to be running on the front end - accessibility testing,
Anyone who’s spoken to me at some point in November may get the impression that I’m a bit of a grinch. But don’t get me wrong, I love Christmas, I love decorating my tree, singing carols, and doing Christmas cooking - **in December**. So for me to willingly be humming…
So recently I shared a HTML and CSS only testimonial carousel, and was accused of witchcraft 🤣  Despite the fact that this absolutely made my day (and resulted in me having to go home that night and re-watch _The Holy Grail_), I decided to compile a few of my little JS-free…
This week I had the chance to not only attend, but speak at NDC Minnesota 2019 (their second year running in Minnesota). This was my second NDC conference (having spoken at London earlier this year) and once again I got the chance to meet a wide range of amazing people…
During the past year, I've started using [Notion](https://www.notion.so/?r=b06033c2cb2d4fe2b29bc7c5ca4a1756) to organise both my personal and professional life. I discovered it accidentally while looking for a tool to manage my side projects and now I use it as my wiki, social media calendar, to draft documents, store random bits of information and…
During the past year, I've started using Notion to organise both my personal and professional life. I discovered it accidentally while looking for a tool to manage my side projects and now I use it to run my life. But recently I've found it's even more useful for managing my…
Five years ago I decided to rebuild my parents' business' website for their Christmas present. It was very out of date, the instructions the developer had given them were incredibly complicated and they were quoting a minimum of $400 to make any content changes. While rebuilding the site I realised…
When I started working for myself fulltime, I was so excited for the freedom and flexibility I could have. No rules, no restrictions, no routines. I could do whatever I wanted, when I wanted and no one could tell me otherwise. But it didn't take me long before I realised…
During the past couple of years, I started focusing more on myself and when I burnt out last year I decided to put myself first. Since then I've taken on so many new responsibilities, adventures and stressors, but since making the decision to put myself first I've been in a…
This weekend I got the chance to go to my second DDD conference in Perth, and experience a little of the behind-the-scenes action working on one of the sponsor booths. Having [been to my first DDD last year](https://amygoestoperth.com.au/developers-developers-developers), they'd set the bar pretty high and still managed to not only…
In the past year, it's no longer unusual to see a virtual assistant in someone's house, whether it be a Google Home, Amazon Alexa or Apple Homepod, but when someone hears that I have 4 I'm always met with shock and surprise. "But what do you actually do with them?".
For the last 5 years, YOW have worked to increase the diversity of tech conferences by running their New Voices in Tech Speaker Training program which offers a full day of speaker training with Damian Conway (travel and accommodation included for interstate participants). For a full day, 10 women in…