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By Mike Street

2020-05-01T15:14:15+01:00 Posted on 1st May 2020

Lockdown continues

I don't think I've mentioned this in blogs or notes before, but the UK is currently on lockdown. Since 18th March, Liquid Light have been a fully remote company - we had to quickly adapt to working in an office to all being in our own homes. It's a weird time, but I think the boy is enjoying both me and my wife being home. Despite the fact i'm not spending 2 hours a day commuting, I seem to have less time then I did before! It's going to be a hard shift when we're allowed to go back to the office again.

Thankfully we're allowed to go out an exercise - the bike rides scattered throughout the week are keeping me sane!

Behind the source gets started

It's been a long time coming, but Behind the Source is finally going to be underway next week. Last week I announced who was going to be involved and when the interviews are going public. I'm super excited about these as they have been such a good read while I've been editing and inputting them into the CMS.

Useful links

Compare Google Lighthouse reports - useful for a before/after report for a client when doing optimisations
I got caught out by the Google Chrome font-weight issue this week on my Beer site
Google Meets is free - this is a great tool we use at work for our meetings (while on lockdown), it's great to see Google opening it up to the public

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Written by Mike Street

Mike is a front-end developer from Brighton, UK. He spends his time writing, cycling and coding. You can find Mike on Twitter.

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