David Beesley - Posts

A few weeks ago, I decided it was time to put my trusty 2017 13" MacBook Pro (MBP) out to pasture.

**How I went from fighting IE6 quirks to wrangling application state to rediscovering my love for CSS** When I started my Web Development career in 2010, Internet Explorer (IE) was the king of the browser hill.

For those of you who don't know this already, I am a bit of a coffee snob* And by far, my favourite coffee is the coffee I make at home with my [Hario V60 conical drip brewer](https://www.hario.co.uk/collections/hario-v60-coffee-drippers).

For some of us in the web/software development industry, the word 'Retrospective' makes your blood run cold.

Recently, I have been learning to rebuild this website in [Astro](https://astro.build/), using an external headless CMS for the content management.

**How drawing a circle made me realise I'd become a bit of a Web Dev Dinosaur** This article relates to the post I made on Bluesky yesterday.

Five years ago, at the beginning of The Bad Thing^TM, I made what I thought was the temporary shift to working from home.