The Tech Civilisation Circles of Influence
Having recently hit the half point mark, where I can accurately state that I have spent half of my life within a single industry, I find myself looking around and taking stock of how...
18 min readStructured Greping Of Structured Logging
I’m not one to advocate for SSH-ing into a server and manually sifting through logs. I’m a big believer in investing in your logging structure & infrastructure at a level that allows you to...
23 min readThat One Time When The US Screeched To A Halt
It doesn’t matter how long I’ve been in the tech industry, two things never seem to change for me. The first is that when starting a new job my impostor syndrome promptly kicks in,...
4 min readExperiments As An Entity
This post is part of the series The secret sauce to an effective team which describes the steps taken within my team at Unruly in order to facilitate the fostering of psychological safety amongst...
5 min readOccupy Hand Signals
This post is part of the series The secret sauce to an effective team which describes the steps taken within my team at Unruly in order to facilitate the fostering of psychological safety amongst...
9 min readGetting Better at X
This post is part of the series The secret sauce to an effective team which describes the steps taken within my team at Unruly in order to facilitate the fostering of psychological safety amongst...
10 min readPairing Checklist
This post is part of the series The secret sauce to an effective team which describes the steps taken within my team at Unruly in order to facilitate the fostering of psychological safety amongst...
16 min readFeedback & Cake
This post is part of the series The secret sauce to an effective team which describes the steps taken within my team at Unruly in order to facilitate the fostering of psychological safety amongst...
6 min readThe secret sauce to an effective team is a mix of Marmalade, Chutney and a little Tahini
They used to joke about my team that “It would take them six months just to agree on whether they want to use semicolons; and even then it would be open to debate for...
11 min readWhen Personal Ethics Clash With Industry Norms
Last week I had the profound pleasure of attending the first ever COED:ETHICS conference in London. A first of its kind, the organisers of this conference posed a question which has long been on...
16 min readBetting On Reason
Approximately a decade ago I found myself at a sort of crossroads. I was about to reach my notice period and was contemplating my options. Having accumulated just over seven years with my first...
17 min readThe magical quest for Componentisation
I would like, if I may, to ask you an existential question. What is the core of our job as developers today? It probably isn’t figuring out the next super cool & complex algorithm....
10 min readUsing ES6's Proxy for safe Object property access
I can’t get over the feeling that ES6 (still refusing to say ES2015 ^_^) is a kind of playground offering me all these new toys and attractions to play around with. Currently my focus...
12 min readTurning Spaghetti into Lasagne
Just over a year ago I started a project which I went into thinking ‘I’m not sure how to do this’ and now, a year and a half later, it is finally almost done...
8 min readWhy on earth would you create yet another package manager for Javascript?
I recently got asked this question by a coworker…. as I tried to explain I found myself going back four years to my next to last job, where I developed the component I recently...
13 min readSimmer.js: A Javascript reverse CSS selector engine
As Front End developers we use CSS selector engines all the time. Most commonly, Sizzle, which is baked into jQuery. The selector engine provides us with a comfortable way to search for elements on...