Josh Farrant

Just over a week ago I took my first 2.5mg dose of tirzepatide — more commonly known as Mounjaro.

A couple of months ago I moved to a new team at work.

On the walk to nursery this morning my wife and kids were startled by a car that drove onto the pavement within a foot of them.

I've switched from typing to dictating and holy hell, I'm not sure I could ever go back.

Ah December.

I've fallen deep into the self-hosting, own your data, rabbit-hole, which led me to set up a Coolify instance on an Azure VPS.

I like scrolling.

Love it or hate it, rebasing is a part of git.

NVDA (when in browse mode) gobbles up keydown events and doesn't forward them on to the browser.

TIL about the .git/info/exclude file.

We can look everything and anything up on our devices with relative ease, but sometimes just knowing a rough number is useful for a quick calculation in your head.

Today wasn’t a good day at work.

I started my new role as a Senior Software Engineer at GitHub a couple of weeks ago.

Asserting how many times a function has been called, and with what arguments, is a common task in unit tests.

Atomic design Atomic Design is awesome, and it’s taken me a long time to properly understand it.

When working on customer-facing applications, it's not uncommon to find ourselves calling functions which have been added to the window by a third-party script.

Storybook has become an indispensable tool for building and documenting UI components, and the Controls addon (née Knobs) is an easy way to allow users to interact and experiment with those components.

I created a library that allows you to create Shortcuts using JavaScript.

I write a lot of CSS.