Reading List

The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.

Pioneers in Open Source Interview: Browsers, Bootcamps & the Business of Open Source

I was interviewed by Jay from Moduscreate to talk about my past, how I got into the market, what open source and browser compatibility means for me and many other bits. Amazing to see that we chatted for 1.5 hours and I hope some of it may be inspiring to you. Watch on YouTube

Opening Node developer tools just got easier

Microsoft Edge has a command palette which allows you to run commands by typing. You can use this to launch Developer Tools for Node. Press `Ctrl+Q` to open the command palette Type `>`, `node` and press Enter Alternatively, you can always use the old way to access Node devtools using `edge://inspect` and clicking the link. […]

Stop waiting for GitHub pages to build using overrides

Using overrides in Chromium DevTools you can cache static assets locally and you don’t need to wait for GitHub pages to build before seeing a change in your scripts or styles. GitHub Pages are a great offer. You can host and version control not only your code on GitHub, but you can also turn it […]

Positioning notification messages with accessibility in mind

Sometimes you want to notify a user that something has happened in your application. To be as inclusive as possible, it is important to display these notifications close to where the action happened. Here is how to do that with plain javascript. When something happens in an application that has no direct visual outcome, it […]

Using Live Server with Developer Tools in Visual Studio Code

By using the Edge DevTools extension together with Live server in VS Code you don’t only get a server that shows your changes live in the browser, but a browser and developer tools right in the editor The Live Server extension for Visual Studio code has been installed 25M times and is incredibly useful. It […]