Delicious Reverie

I shouldn't be surprised really.

I'm still reeling from this, so I hope it comes across with a sort of journalistic stoicism.

I feel I need to start this article with a brief explanation: Welsh is one of the languages spoken in the British Isles.

As the Temporal API is now stable at Stage 3, and a specification compatible polyfill is available, I thought I would use Temporal to build a countdown timer in a React project.

If you have an application which makes many requests to the same API you can use a key to cache and de-duplicate requests.

Over the past few months I've been refactoring a large application written in vanilla JavaScript.

For the past 3 years I've been working at a company that is heavily invested in Drupal as a platform.

I find it fascinating that in spite of many advances in modern psychology certain myths and downright errors still persist.

I've found the details element superbly useful lately.

In a well established team, personality traits come into play.

Dates in JavaScript are changing forever: The Temporal API is now at Stage 4, which means it's stable, and there's a polyfill available.

Many of us run linters (probably eslint) and formatters (like prettier) to make sure code is in a suitable state before merging.

I enjoy times when I'm gleefully happy.

This past year I've been involved in replatforming our media player to use media-chrome from Mux instead of JWPlayer.

An asynchronous solution which waits for elements to appear in the document.

I recently decided to delve a little deeper into Kubernetes by building my own multitenant platform using Capsule.

I'm getting asked this question a lot lately, so I made a few charts that I hope explains the choices people face when they are thinking about switching, and the effort that might take.

Professional software development at an enterprise scale is inherently, and at every level, social.

Many years ago I moved away from building things with WordPress.

Last year I built a carousel project and showcased it here.

This is a follow-up article to one I wrote a few months ago, and which quickly became the most popular article on my blog.

DOM content isn't always loaded in top-to-bottom.

This is a little trick that wasn't on any of the articles I found using the old search engines.

I've been taking a deep dive into Web Components recently: building a complex application.

A system to allow visitors to comment on my blog posts has just gone live.

I've slowly begun to realise something about my taste in poetry, and I wonder how much this is because of my Welsh heritage.

I very rarely write personal articles on this blog.

SendGrid remains a popular tool for routing emails in today's applications.

I was playing around with the :has selector recently and noticed it's got a pretty awesome feature: relative selectors.

One of my roles as the sole JavaScript Engineer is that of planning for the future.

The scope of this project was to track how much of a video has been watched periodically, send the data to an API at regular intervals, to be able to track different video providers (YouTube, Vimeo and others), and to track multiple videos on a page, all…

I had the opportunity to rework one of my favourite codepens recently.

Despite better marketing opportunities, the days of big bang releases are gone.

I made a collection of loading states for Tailwind.

Sorry to those people who subscribe to my RSS feed, I had a bug which I couldn't fix before I re-launched deliciousreverie.co.uk, but which I've resolved now.

Monorepos with Nx on Netlify has been my stack of choice over the past few years.

I've become an avid fan of TypeScript in recent years as it's improved my output, tightened up my appreciation for JavaScript's type coercion, and generally reduced my anxiety levels at work.

Carousels are a staple of web development life.

Publishing poetry on the web is ... tricky.

I had the opportunity to integrate a callback function with a module I was building recently.

I'm building a component library in Astro, and one of the things I needed to do was to build a component that could render as either a button or an anchor tag.

Time is a funny thing.

One of the objectives I set out to achieve at Webiny was to increase the positivity among members of our audience in the hopes that they would become more vocal participants of the community and join in a bit more with our discussions.

Around a year ago I rebuilt this website using Eleventy, the static site generator.

Published on Tuesday, 1 November 2022 , originally at https://www.webiny.com/blog/testing-packages-locally-with-verdaccio-lerna/ We want to provide the easiest way for developers to get started when building a new Webiny project.

It’s not always feasible to destroy your Webiny instance once you’ve started to create entries.

We have struggled for a long time on the question of how to position Webiny as a product.

Developers tend to get very passionate about their tools.

I appeared on the podcast 20 Min JS with Fernando Doglio to talk about Serverless as a concept, and how developers can maximize their time and ship deliverables faster by adopting serverless."

Heroku announced yesterday that it's extremely popular free tier plans are being phased out starting on November 28 this year (2022).