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!
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"Search is a massive growth market but there is only one market leader and many inadequate contenders. Here's why I think we should be building more search providers to expand the market.
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› Read more of "The search service landscape"I recently came across two different examples of setup that used Redux to manage state in a sample app. They were so different that I thought it was worth delving a little deeper into why, and how we can write Redux code so it's a good fit for our needs.
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› Read more of "Comparing two redux setups"Would you use GatsbyJS for a dynamic app? Yes I would. The reason is that I can make good use of Gatsby's great developer experience, as well as do everything I would normally do in a React application. Here's how I recently implemented dynamic routing.
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› Read more of "Dynamic client side routes in GatsbyJS"I was asked to list some of my favourite books recently, so I compiled the following list, which is very loose and still might be missing some of my favourites!
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› Read more of "Some of my favourite books"I had this discussion with a friend over Slack recently, and wanted to share it here in case I wanted to help someone else with the concept in the future
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› Read more of "What is Typescript?"I made the original animation for this site when I was using Hugo, but it's taken some time to refactor to React. Here's the story of how I achieved that.
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› Read more of "Creating my homepage animation"“Wisest are they who know they do not know.”
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