CTO with a dev & ops origin story. Camembert lover/buzzword hater. Ex JSOxford, OxRUG, MoJ, GDS. Only personal opinions here.
A common refrain in software engineering is to put your team before yourself. Also, put the customer first. Make sure you align with the organisation's goals. Everything comes before yourself. But everyone can win when you prioritise looking after yourself
While working on a project with a long history, we wanted to introduce a linter, incrementally improving the code as we made changes.
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When you regularly connect to different Docker daemons, Docker contexts are handy.
A short note about why I'm moving to Mastodon like a load of other people
Wheel bearing specifications for the FSA Non-Series gravel wheelset.
Experiences of Rapha's repairs after an inconvenient crash on my bike
A quiet, challenging, mostly off-road route from Liverpool to Scarborough
Back in the early days, once we’d whittled our keyboards from blocks of granite, we’d debate tabs vs spaces. Now it's pull requests...
Names are powerful. Good names are intuitive, and communicate intent and meaning to the reader. Good names help us have discussions…
A couple of weeks ago we held our first Remote Hack, a free, fully-remote hack day. Here’s what we did, how it went, and how you can run one.
Earlier this year I had the pleasure of working with the Department for Education, Nimble and Paper.
Empower colleagues to solve their problems early to retain your development velocity
Sustainability in Open Source software development is hugely important, but we need to walk the path carefully.
Add a lightweight nginx container to your Docker setup to test HTTPS-related things.
This post explains how to speed up your builds by seeding your Docker image with most of your dependencies, without resorting to data volumes.
Before the 2015 Full Stack Fest, I hadn't really given any thought to how accessible a conference is past whether or not it had wheelchair ramps and lifts. It turns out there's _way_ more to making an event inclusive than that.
Picture the scene: you have a few thousand users with avatars on your site. You want to change from a boring 4x3 photo to a cool and hip circular crop. You know it'll look great for new users, but we don't want to leave the existing ones behind.
A while ago I switched from using boot2docker directly to the Kitematic Mac app. Although Kitematic generally makes life a bit easier when managing Docker containers, it was a bit of a pain to get it running.
Wrap your contents in a table with `table-layout: fixed; width: 100%` and the contents won't push the surrounding page to wider than the browser window.