Delicious Reverie is a blog mostly about web development and JavaScript engineering. But it's unashamedly my personal blog too, so you might find a few other things such as recipes, my musical interests and poetry reviews.
I like to try to help my peers. Drop me a message if you'd like to say hi!
We recently had a situation using jest-axe in tests, where the landmarks feature wasn't work as expected. This helped me verify why we shouldn't rely solely on automated tools, never mind how good they are.
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› Read more of "Automated accessibility testing is great, but ..."When I was younger, I studied a form of Cognitive Behavioural therapy called Counselling. I studied for over 2 years but never took it up as a career. Even so, there are some valuable lessons that continue to help me in my web development career. Here are four of them.
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› Read more of "4 things that I learned from counselling training"2020 has been ... a lot. But I've also learned a ton of stuff. Though I can't ever say I know enough of anything, my objectives for 2021 are going to be quite different from previous years...
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› Read more of "2020 Review / 2021 Aims"I've been keenly interested in a specific subset of CMSes since about 2 years ago, when it became clear that Zopa would soon need to invest in one, and that I would be involved in choosing something that would be a good fit for the company. This post is a roundup of some of the great products available, and is the result of some of the research and proofs-of-concept I have made.
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› Read more of "The JavaScript CMS Landscape"I really like using React with Styled Components for building effective user interfaces. However I have recently come across three conundrums to solve.
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› Read more of "Three UI Component Conundrums"Websites are great tools for communication, but it's remarkably easy to take them offline. For those organisations in which there's a huge financial investment and thousands — perhaps millions - of customers, reliability is a huge concern. The strategies and tools we are looking at here cover both prevention and resolution of problems that could occur to any website.
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› Read more of "Tools for Production Ready Code"It's always bothered me that the majority of internet users spend a lot of money downloading and running JavaScript, yet I enjoy building things with JavaScript, and want to provide an enhanced experience using JS ... without sacrificing their needs to do so. Now, there's an easier way to do both.
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› Read more of "Publishing both JS and non-JS sites"Many of us dream someday of freelancing and living a ... less restrictive? ... lifestyle. But is it truly the best option? I freelanced for 7 years before the Credit Crunch killed my business. Looking back, here are a few of the questions I've been asked about freelancing.
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› Read more of "Freelancing: options and suggestions"WordPress has long been the de facto publishing platform for the web. But many developers are hearing more about the JAMStack. Here's why I switched, and my take on where I think things are going to go from here.
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› Read more of "Don't fear the JAMStack"A significant part of our jobs as developers is explaining technical things to people who don't have the same technical knowledge. How do we help someone to make a decision that involves technical understanding?
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› Read more of "Explaining technical things to nontechnical thinkers"“Wisest are they who know they do not know.”
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