Delicious Reverie

This week I gave a talk at Moar Serverless Conf 2022.

Recently I encountered a Reddit thread along the lines of "is Gatsby dead?"

I've tried several recipes for crispy beef, and have finally gained confidence enough to make it on my own terms.

Time flies, as they say, and as I'm getting older (reached 42 this year) I find I have as much to say but less time to say it.

I've been at Webiny two weeks now.

In this article we’ll learn how to integrate a NextJS application that uses Webiny as a Headless CMS.

Published on Sunday, 2 January 2022 Apollo's MockProvider is a great tool for testing mutations, however it's a little bit magical, making errors a little difficult to find.

In this article we’ll learn how to integrate a GatsbyJS application that uses Webiny as a Headless CMS.

2021 continued the trend of being more challenging than any period before it, in terms of maintaining some sort of normality to our lives.

I recently heard the term 'Digital estate' to mean the technical property of an organisation.

Ben Read is a Senior Software Engineer at PurpleBricks, specializing in JavaScript development.

Sharing code across multiple disparate projects, at scale, can be a problem for many organisations.

This post is a little bit of introspection for me.

Today I'm continuing with my trend of making silly mistakes so you don't have to.

Next, Nuxt, Gatsby, SvelteKit ... there's been an explosion of frontend application frameworks lately.

There are so many choices when it comes to frameworks, and that's teriffic!

Sometimes I get frustrated with React, there can still sometimes be obscure errors that are a result of it's component lifecycle methods.

I've recently been introduced to the use of monorepos to manage projects, and have a few thoughts on the idea.

Should I use CSS or JavaScript to perform this task?

Svelte is a new framework for JavaScript ... hear me out!

Published on Saturday, 8 May 2021 I came across a tool recently that I'm really excited about ... it's something that I think can solve one of the most pressing concerns in JavaScript development: rehydration.

Templating with JSX in React is easy ... until it's not.

I've seen this fairly frequently when it comes to using shared media queries. sometimes you want to set the width of an element based on one property, but you need to access the theme too. const StyledContainer = styled.div` ${(props) => props.narrow

It's no secret that NextJS is knocked the socks off Gatsby last year in terms of developer adoption.

Published on Tuesday, 26 January 2021 Over a year ago I was invited to give a talk at London dev meetup JS Roundabout on the subject of accessibility.

We recently had a situation using jest-axe in tests, where the landmarks feature wasn't work as expected.

Most of us have moments in life where we question ourselves, often forced into being by some personal crisis or difficult situation.

2020 has been ... a lot.

I've been keenly interested in a specific subset of CMSes since about 2 years ago, when it became clear that Zopa would soon need to invest in one, and that I would be involved in choosing something that would be a good fit for the company.

I made the original animation for this site when I was using Hugo, but it's taken some time to refactor to React.

React combined with Styled Components is a flexible and maintainable way of composing reusable user interfaces for the web.

Published on Wednesday, 14 October 2020 A note about this article: This was a feature I wrote for Net magazine which was sadly closed down before it was published, so I published it on dev.to initially.

It's always bothered me that the majority of internet users spend a lot of money downloading and running JavaScript, yet I enjoy building things with JavaScript, and want to provide an enhanced experience using JS without sacrificing their needs to do so.

Many of us dream someday of freelancing and living a ... less restrictive?

WordPress has long been the de facto publishing platform for the web.

Search is a massive growth market but there is only one market leader and many inadequate contenders.

I recently came across two different examples of setup that used Redux to manage state in a sample app.

I have found it very difficult to collect this list together, I go through phases with books and these might be considered my current favourites ... but here goes!

Would you use GatsbyJS for a dynamic app?

What is TypeScript?

In the January 2020 issue of Net Magazine, we walked through how to use React testing library to write basic unit tests for your React components.

Webiny is a new CMS in the market, one that seeks to compete with other well-established headless CMS platforms and existing apps.

When you build something, how long do you expect it to last?

Published on Tuesday, 31 March 2020 I configured a command so that I can run a type check on my project, but the results always include stuff in the node_modules folder.

Originally published in print for Net Magazine.

I really like asian food.

Mention TypeScript to a developer who works with JavaScript and you'll probably get one of two responses: they will either struggle to understand why someone would NOT want to use TypeScript, or they will struggle to see why someone WOULD use it.

We developers are inherently precious about things.

reduce() has terrified me for some time!

In this article, we takes a deep dive into creating an accordion module for React that renders on the server, and that works in Internet Explorer 11.