What are Cloud Functions, Cloudflare Workers and Serverless?
Posted on 26th February 2020.
Serverless & Cloudflare workers have been cropping up a lot recently. I try to organise my thoughts into what they are and how you can use them…
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2019 In Review
Posted on 31st December 2019.
2019 was a strange year, new kitchen, bathroom car and bike. But overall it was good. I enjoyed it.…
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How do you deal with designers who design without any thought?
Posted on 10th December 2019. Written For Liquid Light
I was listening to a recent podcast of Syntax, when there was a “Potluck” question episode (number 194 to be precise) the other day and one of the questions (about 13 minutes 11 seconds in) really got me thinking: How do you deal with designers who design without…
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Reminder: Git, Analytics, Tina and JS
Posted on 13th November 2019.
With #ffconf and podcasts, there are a few things I've come across this week that I wanted to make a note of. These include Analytics, Git and a JS Library…
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How to become device agnostic and what it means for your data
Posted on 11th November 2019. Written For Liquid Light
/dɪˈvʌɪs aɡˈnɒstɪk/ Allow the user to view, edit and add to their data regardless of the technology used Last month my phone had to be sent off for repair. For a lot of people, sending off their mobile phone would bring on “the fear”. Worries about losing…
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email.subscribeto - a newsletter database
Posted on 22nd August 2019.
I've always been keen to discover new newsletters and have always kept my eye out for recommendations. I decided to collate these recommendations and build a directory.…
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The Real World of Web Development
Posted on 31st July 2019.
I read "The Real Dark Web", a blog post from @sonniesedge and within a few paragraphs it really hit home. There are a few noisy web developers who are innovating, but their innovations are not realistic in the "Real world". Yet [we] are told, mostly implicitly, sometimes directly, that if [we're]…
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Linux Debian user commands
Posted on 20th June 2019.
To save me Googling, I have collated all the user-related commands I often use - particularly useful when setting up a new VM!…
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Getting started with Xen - setting up virtual machines
Posted on 20th June 2019.
Xen is a basic but powerful package for linux which allows you to create virtual machines, A rival to Vagrant, Xen has less configuration (but is potentially less "agile")…
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Build your own "share this" component
Posted on 3rd May 2019.
Using a Share This plugin (or similar) or the native sharing widgets from social networks can really bloat your page and look ugly. This code is how we, at Liquid Light, implement social sharing widgets…