Amber: Blog

I was so excited to come to Brighton on March 12th 2026 to attend Web Day Out.

Inspired by Paweł Grzybek who was inspired by Michael Crittenden.

I'm writing a book for people who want to change careers and get into web development!

Code review is super important.

What is your approach for understanding a brand new (complex!)

A very mini list of things that I usually think of while I'm writing about life and tech, that have helped me to blog better!

It's hiring season!

I got the idea to write a my first ever retrospective for the year from Monica Lent. 🙏 What a year it has been.

In short, React's useCallback hook is used to wrap functions.

One day I decided I wanted to add anchor links to each of the sections in my blog posts.

When I re-made my site with Eleventy, the pages didn't change much, but I had loads of fun adding new features.

In this post I'll compare my experience building my personal blogging site (the one you're on now) with two static site generators (SSGs) - Gatsby and Eleventy.

When someone uses their browser to visit your website, the browser fetches files from your website's server.

I use a bookmarklet tool called Tota11y, which gives me a quick overview of my site's accessibility.

Background Section titled Background I wanted to write my thoughts on remote working as I enter my sixth consecutive month of it.

Bookmarklets - a cool personal dev tool Section titled Bookmarklets - a cool personal dev tool I have just found out what bookmarklets (aka favelets - a term coined by my friend Tantek back in the early 2000s) are and I like 'em!

A long, long time ago in a land before dev tools, there lived all of its predecessors.

The other day I was discussing CSS custom properties with Jeremy when I noticed something.

There was a bug in some of my code recently.

What is a pandemic anyway?

May the 4th be with you!

The goal of this post is to highlight a handful of useful HTML elements for improving a page's accessibility, and show that every developer can learn about and write accessible HTML!

Recently, I've been chatting about accessibility with two of the biggest experts on the subject.

Image by hugues-dbm I was recently asked by more than one junior developer about how to progress to a mid-level developer.

In spoken languages, the imperative is used to express commands/give orders.

@Sareh88 wants to set us a challenge - giving back to the web community.

I think it’s important for junior developers to learn to see the bigger picture in projects.

What is important to you as a developer?

Last time I wrote about coding up a design, I was only two weeks into the related project.

If you said "YES", how exciting!

I recently read a blog post that grouped developers into categories depending on how long they have worked as one.

I visited a great place with lots of graffiti at the weekend, and decided I'd take one of my pictures from there and pixelise it - see the pixel version below and the original further down.

What I've written here is meant for developers but I think it could work for anyone :) I feel like this post could be part of a series all about my experiences as a new developer that I've written about over the past year.

This post is split into three parts.

One month ago, I was invited by Vanessa and Michele to speak at the JSConf EU community lounge in sunny Berlin.

Firstly, what is pair programming?

Yes, exactly!!!!

I got a new camera.

I love how photography allows you to be as creative as you like.

The first unconf I’ve ever been to just wrapped up and it’s been a really great experience.

I’ve been wanting to write about psychology for a while now.

Wait, some people have said this.

I am starting this post almost 4 months too late, but I want it here so I can be kept (at least a little) accountable for starting (and finishing!)

I realised I published Newbie Dev Tips nearly seven months ago.

This is a bit of a retrospective post, because the things I’m going to talk about happened on the last day of January.

Today I attended the Global Diversity CFP Day – Berlin style.

This post details how my January has gone so far, my reflections on it, and has an important message at the end.

(Originally published on SuperYesMore) Your productivity is all about you.

Equally importantly - what are you looking for?