Blog posts
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Achievement Unlocked - January 2021
General notes: Took a week off work and visited my parents, lots of sleeping and pool time and beach time and long lazy summer hangs ☀️ Making progress on my Japanese - I now know some basic grammati...
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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’...