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.
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…
Quokkas are an adorable animal found on Rottnest Island in Australia. Amy Kapernick is a Twilio Champion who has written a bot that can identify whether a picture sent to it contains a quokka or not. It can even send you a picture of a quokka if you're not sure…
In the past, Windows has developed a reputation for being a difficult OS to use as a developer. Things were difficult to install and run, involved complex workarounds and you could forget doing anything involving Ruby. Thankfully in recent years that's improved, even more so with the Windows Subsystem for…
Last week I got the chance to speak at , and do a first-look demo on their newly announced featured - . And as I didn't get access to Static Web Apps until they same time everyone else did (the day before my demo), I got to showcase how simple…
We all know that testing is important, but this is often limited to unit testing and integration testing, focusing on the back-end of our application, and we tend to forget about testing the front-end. There are so many different types of tests that we need to run on the front-end,
Last year, for a demo at Twilio Superclass in Sydney, I built a bot that sent pictures of Quokkas when requested - Quokka on Demand (covered in Part 1 of this blog series, ). After that was done, chatting with Phil and Devin from Twilio, they came up with a…
Last month I started getting overwhelmed at what I had coming up this year (that's right, it was only January). I wanted something where I could see the whole year at a glance, I didn't need many details but wanted to see what trips/conferences I had happening and even where…