Software developer tools to increase productivity�...

In this blog post I want to go over some of the software I use alongside my IDE/version control tools during my day-to-day work. These tools allow me to cut down on wasted time spent doing things inefficiently, track my work, take notes, and generally make my life easier. I’ve also reached out to Damien,

The one where Lloyds Banking Group suffered downti...

2 min read It’s estimated that over 18 million people in the UK use online banking. So when the Lloyds, Halifax, and the Bank of Scotland online banking platforms all suffered partial downtime, millions of people were unable to access their accounts properly. Find out more here! Source link

Website accessibility for all, by all

It is so important that every aspect of the web is accessible to all, and if – like me – you work in digital, then it is our responsibility that we make that happen. Who is affected by an inaccessible website? Let’s begin to understand the issue that many users are facing. When it comes

Website downtime: The one where Google Maps went d...

March saw many of the big tech companies have technical issues with their products and services. But the biggest one was by far the colossal Google; Google Maps experienced the much dreaded website downtime impacting thousands of users across the globe. It was reported online that Google Maps had suffered a partial outage meaning that

Scopify GitHub Projects – Scopify Blog

The Scopify API allows users of the platform to come up with custom ways of interacting and making our tools work for their specific needs. In this blog post I’m going to look at a few recent projects on GitHub that use the Scopify API to either save you time or do something interesting with

Mobile optimisation and your website

If you’re a website owner, manager, or developer, you know to always check your website’s performance and design on both desktop vs mobile, especially since Google’s big drive for mobile-first. Google has even centred their 2021 Core Web Vitals around making sure that your website is efficient on mobile.  Google had a good reason to

Monitoring Applications Declaratively with Terrafo...

Running infrastructure at scale almost always guarantees dizzying complexity and anxiety-inducing pressure to maintain systems in a production environment. This is further exacerbated when multiple delivery teams require slight variations of the same infrastructure components, across several cloud providers, each with a different set of observability requirements. Gradually, production environments become large, unmanageable, difficult to

Monitoring Applications Declarively with Terraform

Running infrastructure at scale almost always guarantees dizzying complexity and anxiety-inducing pressure to maintain systems in a production environment. This is further exacerbated when multiple delivery teams require slight variations of the same infrastructure components, across several cloud providers, each with a different set of observability requirements. Gradually, production environments become large, unmanageable, difficult to

The hottest new UI trends for 2022

The web as a whole is constantly evolving and alongside this comes fantastic innovations in how we display content to the user. Some companies are really leading the way when it comes to innovative user interfaces, so in this blog post I will be highlighting a selection of the trends that these companies are pushing

The endless capabilities of Storybook

As a developer, I am a massive fan of documentation and (as you can probably tell from my previous blog post) also a big fan of Storybook. If you’re interested in what Storybook is and how to set it up, or integrate it into your existing project, you can find out more about that here.