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Using API layers on the edge for mobile apps
Recently I've been investigating how edge computing (also referred to as 'the edge') can boost the performance of mobile applications ('apps'). 🧑🎓For those unfamiliar with the edge, check out my 10 minute talk as part of Jamstack Conf 2022 that does a quick overview.
I'm not a web developer: buying vs. building my site
Recently, I was chatting with a close friend and former colleague about rebuilding my site. I was feeling guilty for considering a paid hosted blog service such as Ghost rather than rebuilding it in a modern Javascript framework for the second time in 3 years. I wanted to add new
Boost your career with a brag sheet
🎥I gave a talk on this topic as part of Girl Geek X: Elevate 2023. If you'd like to check it out, you can find the recording here. When I started my career as a software engineer almost a decade ago, the advice that I remembered hearing from
How to encrypt your existing Roam Research graph
I've been using Roam Research for the past couple of years as my second brain/notebook and was excited when they announced support for encrypted hosted graphs. And while we're coming up to a year since it was launched, there still isn't yet the
Boosting Jamstack Site Performance With Edge Functions
How can the edge help boost your sites' performance?
Why are custom headers missing in "304 (Not Modified)" responses?
304 (Not Modified) responses minimize the amount of information that needs to be transferred in subsequent requests made after an initial 200 (OK) response if the resources being requested are unchanged1. This has performance benefits for a website, particularly where larger assets such as images are involved. If you are
Bypassing Git Hooks
Git hooks are a useful mechanism for performing code quality checks in your local development environment before committing that code or pushing it up to a remote branch. A common quality check that a git hook can perform is running the project’s code linter, such as eslint. While it
Useful Github Search Capabilities for Issues and Pull Requests
In my day-to-day I often find myself wanting to search for pull requests and issues that I’ve commented on without necessarily being the author of the pull request/issue. Fortunately, Github has a couple of pretty useful search options for just this purpose! Search by commenter This is a
Testing a project contained in a monorepo
A ‘monorepo’ is the term used to describe the organization of multiple distinct projects with well-defined relationships into a single code repository1 rather than having each project be in its own dedicated repository. Monorepos have been around for a while, but if you haven’t worked with them before, figuring
Write how much work is required, not the work itself
The format for outlining what work needs to be done to achieve an outcome varies from company to company. It can be challenging to convey a sense of scope when writing what work needs to be completed, and the result can sometimes amount to ‘do X so a user can