Technical Director and bridge between design and engineering @pa_consulting. 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦, 🎸and 🚴🏻‍♂️. #css #perf #a11y #cms #bdd #designsystems

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Joined November 2006
There 44 grammar, spelling and formatting errors on the election flyer for our local Reform UK dullard. “REFORM UK WILL SAVE BRITIAN.” An accurate reflection of the state of affairs. 🙄
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The untold history of web development: 1990: HTML invented 1994: CSS invented to fix HTML 1995: JS invented to fix HTML/CSS 2006: jQuery invented to fix JS 2010: AngularJS invented to fix jQuery 2013: React invented to fix AngularJS 2014: Vue invented to fix React & Angular 2016: Angular 2 invented to fix AngularJS & React 2019: Svelte 3 invented to fix React, Angular, Vue 2019: React hooks invented to fix React 2020: Vue 3 invented to fix React hooks 2020: Solid invented to fix React, Angular, Svelte, Vue 2020: HTMX 1.0 invented to fix React, Angular, Svelte, Vue, Solid 2021: React suspense invented to fix React, again 2023: Svelte Runes invented to fix Svelte 2024: jQuery still used on 75% of websites
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Jack Dorsey describing PIP’s and Annual Reviews as a “denial of service attack on managers” is honestly an incredible analogy
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I’m loving the rediscovery of URLs-as-state in the Frontend community. It’s funny that it reminds people of PHP when it was always there 🙊
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Working with really good front end engineers is magical. Watching people crank out beautiful UI is a treat.
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Replying to @fasc1nate
This is a true story about a woman named Gladys Ingle, who became a hero in 1926 when she performed an incredible feat of bravery. Gladys was a wing walker, which meant that she walked on the wings of airplanes while they were in flight. This was a popular form of entertainment at air shows in the 1920s, and Gladys was one of the best in the business. On one occasion, Gladys was performing at an air show in California when she noticed that the landing gear on the plane she was flying in was malfunctioning. The pilot, who was also her husband, realized that they would not be able to land safely unless the landing gear was fixed. Gladys knew what she had to do. She climbed out of the cockpit and onto the wing of the plane, which was flying at an altitude of around 2,000 feet. She then crawled onto the wing of another plane that was flying nearby, and from there she climbed onto its fuselage. Once she was on the second plane, Gladys was able to reach the landing gear of the first plane. She managed to fix the problem and then climbed back onto the second plane. The stunt was incredibly dangerous, and Gladys had to be extremely brave to perform it. She later said that she was not afraid during the stunt, but that she was focused on getting the job done. Gladys became a national hero after the stunt, and she continued to perform as a wing walker for many years. She was inducted into the International Air & Space Hall of Fame in 1989, and she passed away in 1981 at the age of 81. Gladys Ingle's mid-air stunt remains one of the most incredible feats of bravery in aviation history, and she will always be remembered as a true pioneer of flight.
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An extremely brave woman jumps from plane to plane to mid-air to change a landing gear. 1926.
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I'm attending TestJS Summit 2023 - get your free remote ticket and join me there with 5k other engineers and 30+ great speakers portal.gitnation.org/badges/… #TestJSSummit
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My good friend Duncan (not of the X parish) is swimming every lake in the Lake District to raise money for Anthony Nolan, who found a successful bone marrow donor match for a friend in need. If you’re feeling generous this weekend: justgiving.com/page/duncan-f… 🏊🏻‍♂️
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They’re actually paying you to provide business value. Not to write idiomatic code.
Quote tweet this with something you wish more people knew about coding
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Nick Dunn retweeted
I see web development gatekeeping Twitter is alive and kicking, so let me say this: If it renders right, is performant and accessible, you are doing fine.
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"By collaborating closely, our team upskilled Zoopla's #Digital engineers at pace, enabling them to deliver new, customer-friendly products. This is how we did it ➡️ ow.ly/cIcC50P1xsY #CustomerExperience
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Can verify this happens to us all. It’s how you recover from it and how many biscuits you bring @firefishy1 that matter. (PS. thank you, again)
Forgot to mention, I DELETED the PROD database today. Not on purpose. I thought I was on my local. Autopilot error. Happens to everyone. I had it fixed so fast that no one knows except me and all of you. Not my first time either. Senior dev.
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Paint Shop Pro ❤️
This is where it started for me
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Nick Dunn retweeted
It’s been 10 years since I published an article entitled “Why I’m So Excited About #CraftCMS (and why you should be)”, and to my surprise, my excitement has hardly waned. Here's why. putyourlightson.com/articles…
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You know that 0 layers have been named in this office
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What is the difference between the two urls? one has an @ and one doesn't. But also the first downloads version 15 of postgres from GitHub and the second one resolves to v15 dot zip domain which can also downloads a zip file that sure doesn't have postgres in it. You see, URLs with @ in them are split into two parts, anything before @ is user info and anything after it is the host name, however this rule is broken if what comes before @ are forward slashes. The second URL includes a character encoded like forward slash but isn't really the real forward slash, which URL parsers ignores making anything before the @ as user info and treating whatever comes after it as the real hostname. While this can happen on any domain, the zip domains makes it more likely to happen. When you click on a link that ends in zip especially if it looks like from GitHub you won't think twice about it. Read the full blog from Bobbyr below.
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Nick Dunn retweeted
I'm scaling up my team at @BPPGroup and have a number of engineering roles open. Everything from leadership (Head of) to Individual Contributors (Software engineers, SRE's). Likes and Shares are much appreciated. DM me for more! #openroles #SoftwareEngineer #leadership.
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After 6 years of building and serving @nozzleio's marketing site with React and JS, nozzle.io has *finally* been relaunched with Wordpress! Let me tell you why this is monumentally awesome. 👇 I'm so flippin' excited about this not just because it relieves me of a huge unwanted burden, but mostly because it's probably one of the most ironically practical technical decisions we've ever made. When it was just us 3 co-founders, sure it was fun to use React and JS to build our marketing site, and it got us to where we are today, but at some point, you can't underestimate the power of workflow and no-code frameworks (that have been empowering content marketers 20x longer than the latest trendy JS framework). After moving things back to ol' Wordpress, our content and marketing team can literally move 100x faster now. They're in full control of everything from technical SEO, content, campaigns, new content types, GTM, analytics, lead generation + sales funnel capture, content upgrades (goodbye building new templates in React!). At the end of the day, I'm just really proud of the @nozzleio marketing/content team. 🥂 to them for this awesome milestone. ....also I'm terribly sorry you had to reverse engineer my 5 year old React code 😜
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