Steve Workman's Blog

I recently came back to my blog after many years of not posting for various reasons.

People appear to be in two different camps on the question of "how hard is coding today?".

Inside Maersk Technology, we have lots of communities of practice - like-minded individuals who solve problems with technologies.

I've been away for 3 weeks and all this happened It's a strange old time.

Summary In this post, I delve deep into: Library and bundle size, and output, using Rollup, and how tree-shaking doesn't always work A discussion on dependencies, managing them in your library Effectively analysis if the code you have is the right size An…

I began interviewing people for jobs about three years in to my career.

I was lucky enough to go to the Chrome Dev Summit in San Francisco this year.

The best thing about technology, is that it's always changing.

I've been playing with HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS, I'm late to the party as usual) and there's some misconceptions that I had going in that I didn't know about that threw me a bit.

Over the last few months I've been putting together my talk for the year, based on a blog post that is titled "HTTPS is Hard".

You may have heard about a project that Google has just announced called AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages), which aims to speed up the mobile web.

Dave Letorey at State of the Browser A short write up on the weekend Another year, another State of The Browser - now in its fifth year, it's a conference for the London Web development community.

I was lucky enough to attend Edge Conf in London this year, a day that I always truly enjoy.

I've been off the speaking circuit for a while now.

I've been really interested in wearables since I saw the first press shots of the Moto 360.

Update - this position has now been filled.

Removing jQuery from your website is a big thing.

I was lucky enough to be invited to attend and speak at Edge Conf London 2014, an assembly of web development superheroes charged with discussing the future of web technology in front of a live audience.

It's 2014 and I'm feeling inspired to change my ways.

Update 4th Feb 2017: I'm looking for a new front-end developer.

I was lucky enough to be asked to speak at Remy Sharp's Side View conference in Brighton this weekend, a part of the full frontal conference event.

It’s official, from the end of November I’m going to be working for hibu as the UI Tech Lead for yell.com I've had a great start to my career – over my 6 years at PA I’ve worked for the biggest employer in Europe (twice), the world’s biggest medical chari…

I gave this talk at Berkshire Digital's Pecha Kucha night.

It feels like months and months since I wrote a meaningful post on here.

"Our work here is done" - the immortal final words of the web standards project.

Massively exciting news: I am going to be speaking at the Future of Web Design London conference on their Rising Stars track!

It's been an amazing year, getting married, the olympics, doing my first public speaking gig, so many highlights.

TL;DR; I've made a polyfill for CSS3 Object-fit.

Yesterday I attended The Guardian Mobile Business Summit in London.

September's London Web Standards Meetup featured UX designers and developers bringing print to life with their tales of making web apps for the FT (Matt Andrews) and an iPad app for The Week (Harry Brignall).

This month was a very special meetup for London Web Standards - it's 5th birthday celebrations!

Last night, Twitter blogged about upcoming changes to its API in version 1.1.

My CSS bookshelf is now available on github as an easy download if you want one yourself.

This month's London Web Standards was on augmented reality, a hot topic a few years ago that is making its way back into people's mindshare with projects like Google Glass.

HTML5 video players are incredibly useful, enabling developers to display video on non-flash devices (I'm looking at you, Apple).

Last night was London Web Standards' Semantic Web event with Mischa Tuffield and Jarred McGinnis talking about RDF standards, SPARQL, how it all works and how it works in the real work in the mainstream press.

This weekend, London Web Standards manage to get evangelists from all of the major browsers in a panel to talk about their companies' products.

Just a quick post to say that State of the Browser 2012 was awesome.

Yesterday, I went to Bath to learn about the latest in mobile development from some of the best people in the industry.

If you've ever wanted to scrape a web page and extract some information using Node.js, there's a really useful module called JSDom that parses a document and gives you a DOM that you can then manipulate with YUI or jQuery.

February 2012's London Web Standards event at Forward London was an introduction to Node.js, the server-side javscript framework designed for high concurrency and real-time events.

If you follow any front-end web developers on Twitter today, you'll probably have come across articles on vendor prefixes and the latest CSSWG fight over Mozilla, Microsoft and Opera wanting to implement -webkit- vendor prefixes.

Last night, I was lucky enough to meet Joe Stump, former Lead Architect at Digg and founder of SimpleGeo, who sat down with 7 developers near Old Street and showed us his latest creation: Sprintly.

In my work, I'm parsing web services all of the time.

I'm investigating a problem with loading locally installed fonts in Windows 7.

Earlier this year, I was lucky enough to meet Josh Clark at FOWD.

It's been quite a few months since I've been really inspired to do something.

Adobe has done the unthinkable, it's actually bought two companies worth giving a crap about.

After a summer break, London Web Standards was back with an evening of WebGL with Ilmari Heikkenen from Google and a short demo from Carlos Ulloa of HelloEnjoy.

A really quick note: one of my colleagues Ed Hartwell-Goose has written a post for the Google App Engine blog on Project WOW - a site for weather enthusiasts to send their readings to and be collated by the Met Office.