Blog posts
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Achievement Unlocked - December 2020
Welp, it’s certainly all happening. What I am grateful for last month Some awesome times at the beach with my lovely friends!! Got a hold of a copy of Normal People by Sally Rooney, and got to visit...
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Achievement unlocked - November 2020
It’s been awhile since I did one of these posts. Gonna get back into it with a new and lightweight formula. What I am grateful for last month Got to go on a little company retreat (we’re luckily smal...
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Animation on the web
I’ve learnt a lot about animations on the web in the past year since joining the product team at Qwilr. I’ve spent a lot of it thinking about how to distill what I’ve found hard about designing and bu...
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This is not 'The Cookie' recipe (but it is very good)
Simply obsessed with this recipe from the food blog, Buttermilk Pantry. A designer who I work with at Qwilr recommended it to me, and I’m making it for the second time this arvo. It calls for white mi...
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Day 5 of leave
Ah yes, it is day five of leave, the first day I have decided to sit down and write some code for a personal project. Thus far I have spent 3 hours debugging a series of esoteric dependency-related No...
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Choose boring technology
As I get more and more experience in software development, I am reminded more and more of the statement “choose boring technology”. If you’re building out a simple client-side web application and If y...
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Attractive things work better (jnd.org)
Some interesting food for thought....
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Pasta
We’re doing some cooking challenges at work at the moment, and this last week’s challenge was to cook homemade pasta! We elected to bite the bullet and buy a pasta machine, because we’ve made pasta fr...
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Yalc and fast feedback loops
As mentioned in one of my previous posts, I’ve been making intensive use of Slate, an open source Javascript project, which is developed as a monorepo and published to npm. As part of working on it I’...
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Space for BLM
It felt wrong to not use my own platform to speak out about Black Lives Matter, and “just” post something about going carless this weekend when there is so much more important events occuring. One of...