Delicious Reverie is the personal home of Benjamin Read on the web.
I'm a Senior JavaScript Software Engineer with experience of FinTech and Property Tech markets. I enjoy leadership roles. I'm also a poetry and literature nerd.
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Tracking video plays
The scope of this project was to track how much of a video has been watched periodically, send the data to an API at regular intervals. Here's how I achieved that in a developer-friendly way.
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Tailwind progressively collapsing menu.
When I first saw this method of being able to progressively hide individual navigation items instead of all of them, and to do so without the use of JavaScript, I was impressed with the idea. Here's a remix using Tailwind.
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Iterate.
A few times during the past year I've caught myself advocating for iterative changes. Both in software and in terms of our processes I've found that I far prefer smaller, incremental improvements over stressful, complicated and far-reaching changes that may or may not improve fulfilment, delivery and other metrics.
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📼 YouTube Channel
I also run a YouTube channel called "The Coding Cocoon" where I teach young adults how to code and design.
The channel currently has 286 subscribers and 11,500 views.
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3: Get data from our location using the Navigator API
In this lesson we're going to do a couple of things: 1. Use the navigator API to get our current location 2. Add 2 parameters to our ...
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