Writings on various topics (mostly technical) from Oliver Hookins and Angela Collins. We currently reside in Sydney after almost a decade in Berlin, have three kids, and have far too little time to really justify having a blog.
Yet another long-overdue post. The last couple of weeks (or perhaps sprints) my team has dived into Typescript for a new project. I like it, really like it. Maybe that's just because for years I've feared Javascript, haven't understood enough about how to unit testing, and found myself writing terrible code and just running it to find the bugs. This is not a very good development methodology.
Perhaps the title is somewhat excessive, but it expresses how I feel about this particular topic. I'm not a "front-end person" (whatever that is) and feel much more comfortable behind an API where you don't have to worry about design, markup, logic, styling as well as how to put them all together. That being said, I feel it's an area where I should face my fears head-on, and so I'm doing some…
This is a small rant, and the title should already be very familiar to you, if you have paid for anything online in the last 15 or so years. Nothing (or very little) seems to have changed in that time, remarkably. We still seem to be affected by the same range of ridiculously trivial problems - all easily solvable with a tiny amount of Javascript, mind you - and not making any further progress in…
I've recently been building a website for my wife using relatively modern tools - lots of client-side Javascript and relatively minimal CSS and HTML. A recent-ish email alerted me to the existence of a Berlin-based Famous framework meetup group, which initially made no sense to me, but after I checked out the actual framework website my interest was piqued. I've got next to no website building…
Perhaps a little late in the year to be conducting a personal retrospective on the years past, but I feel at this point I'm starting to wonder about the challenges ahead. The last two to three years I've distinctly changed my career direction from systems engineering, to "DevOps" (whatever that means anymore), to developer. Sure, I'm technically a Computer Scientist by tertiary education standards…