Second-guessing the modern web
12 May 2020Tom MacWright talks skepticism on single-page applications and asks the question “what if everyone’s wrong?”. I found myself agreeing with a lot of his takes.
Phoenix: Using Plugs to improve scoped resources
29 Apr 2020Improving scoped resources with plugs and pipelines.
The Basecamp Guide to Internal Communication
19 Feb 2020The how, where, why and when the remote-working Basecamp team communicate. So much of this document resonates with the way I love to work.
The Missing Semester of Your CS Education
05 Feb 2020This Open Learning MIT class claims to teach students about topics seldom covered by Computer Science courses. It’s jam packed with useful information and well deserving a bookmark for both experienced and entry-level developers.
The Logitech USB Receiver
22 Jan 2020How the dumb little receiver dongle saved me from losing my mind
Low Power Mode for Mac laptops
15 Jan 2020Marco Arment responds to rumours of a Pro Mode for Macs with another case for adding low-power mode. I’d love to see this.
Building a BitTorrent client from the ground up in Go
08 Jan 2020A great technical blog post that explains the inner workings of the BitTorrent protocol in an easy to understand way.
Group Chat: The Best Way to Totally Stress Out Your Team
25 Nov 2019The ups and downs of modern group communication from the company that pioneered modern chat for business.
Farewell Loco2
05 Nov 2019Friend and Loco2 co-founder Jamie says a final goodbye to the Loco2 brand
Creating an Archive page with Jekyll
20 Oct 2019How to group Jekyll posts (by year or month) with minimal effort
Interactive Shells in Capistrano
14 Oct 2019How to start a remote Rails console (and other interactive commands) via Capistrano
Jony Ive
03 Oct 2019A bit late in the year for this, but John Siracusa talks through Jony Ive’s departure from Apple with a cool comparison to a surprisingly deep animated short from Netflix
Brighton Ruby 2019
07 Jul 2019I had planned on writing my own blog post summary of the conference, but Frederick pretty much nailed it. The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Technical Debt by Sroop was my favourite.
Making On-Call Not Suck
03 Jul 2019Molly does well to summarise a broken on-call system and what her company are doing to combat it.
Pricehack launch brings split ticketing to Loco2
01 Jul 2019After years of hard work, UK split tickets are now available on Loco2.
Dark Mode
10 Jun 2019At the request of my eyeballs, you can now switch to a dark version of the website.
How to Draw a Horse
09 Jun 2019Emma Hunsinger on the artistic and romantic suffering she underwent while learning to draw horses. Prepare your feels.
WWDC 2019 Highlights
07 Jun 2019If you follow tech news you’ll no doubt have noticed Apple’s yearly World Wide Developer Conference announcements making the rounds this past week. Here are some of my highlights.
Is High Quality Software Worth the Cost?
31 May 2019Recommended reading for both software developers and managers/stakeholders. Martin Fowler explains why high quality software is cheaper to produce and visualises the impact of internal code quality.