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Setting up ESLint on Webstorm when using Yarn Berry with Plug'n'Play

Friday, January 7, 2022 — 2 min read

How I stress tested mapbox's handling of many polygons

Friday, January 7, 2022 — 5 min read

How to visualise Australia's weather stations on a map

Tuesday, January 4, 2022 — 7 min read

How to model application flows in React with finite state machines and XState

Friday, July 23, 2021 — 10 min read

Kablamo taps McDowell for geo-spatial expertise

Sunday, March 14, 2021 — 2 min read

Analysing codebase metadata to make refactoring more impactful

Wednesday, November 11, 2020 — 3 min read

Building Software is much like buying a house

Tuesday, October 20, 2020 — 2 min read

Upgrading an old Flow codebase

Tuesday, October 20, 2020 — 2 min read

Cutting our Codeship Pro CI build time in half

Friday, September 25, 2020 — 3 min read

Meet the team - Andrew McDowell

Sunday, December 1, 2019 — 1 min read

Getting organised in work

Monday, November 4, 2019 — 5 min read

Lessons from creating a component library

Monday, September 23, 2019 — 4 min read

Debugging minified code

Thursday, September 12, 2019 — 4 min read

A day in the life of

Wednesday, September 11, 2019 — 4 min read

Unexpected promise in the bagging area

Tuesday, August 27, 2019 — 2 min read

How I approach an algorithmic code challenge

Friday, July 12, 2019 — 3 min read

How to download an image to file on disk when scraping a website

Thursday, February 7, 2019 — 1 min read

Using Async/Await to batch asynchronous requests

Sunday, June 24, 2018 — 2 min read

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Migrating data from Ghost to GatsbyJS

Monday, June 18, 2018 — 3 min read

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Building node-canvas in Amazon Linux AMI for Lambdas

Sunday, October 8, 2017 — 2 min read

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Building a Raspberry Pi internet speed checker with NodeJS and GoogleDocs

Saturday, March 18, 2017 — 4 min read

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Whitelisting multiple domains with kcors in Koa

Friday, February 17, 2017 — 3 min read

Mocking relative dependencies in Jest with jest.mock()

Wednesday, December 7, 2016 — 2 min read

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Putting Yarn Package Manager to the test

Tuesday, November 22, 2016 — 3 min read

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My favourite VSCode plugins

Sunday, November 6, 2016 — 7 min read

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Webpack-dev-server: Where does your CSS go?

Wednesday, September 14, 2016 — 1 min read

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Serverside CSS Modules with babel

Sunday, August 21, 2016 — 2 min read

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babel-loader's hidden feature - babelrc:false

Sunday, August 21, 2016 — 2 min read

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NPM uses your .gitignore file

Sunday, July 3, 2016 — 2 min read

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Using console.time to profile performance in your node application

Thursday, June 9, 2016 — 3 min read

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Error handling in Express with Async/Await routes

Wednesday, May 25, 2016 — 3 min read

babel-plugin-transform-async-to-module-method gotcha

Sunday, May 8, 2016 — 2 min read

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Asset hashing with webpack

Friday, April 15, 2016 — 5 min read

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Using webpack to set up polyfills in your site

Sunday, April 3, 2016 — 3 min read

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Writing a Gulpfile in ES6

Wednesday, March 30, 2016 — 1 min read

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ASYNC/AWAIT ES7

Saturday, March 12, 2016 — 4 min read

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My favourite Atom packages of 2015

Saturday, January 2, 2016 — 3 min read

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Semver - the sane way

Saturday, November 7, 2015 — 4 min read

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Setting up webpack dev middleware in express

Saturday, November 7, 2015 — 3 min read

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WhatsApp sharing from the mobile browser

Saturday, November 7, 2015 — 2 min read

Selenium ActionSequence

Saturday, November 7, 2015 — 2 min read

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JsFiddle - Firebug lite

Saturday, November 7, 2015 — 2 min read

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Some useful everyday linux commands

Saturday, November 7, 2015 — 2 min read

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Creating SVG animation with WalkwayJS

Sunday, November 1, 2015 — 2 min read

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Javascript Interview Questions

Sunday, November 1, 2015 — 11 min read

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Javascript Toolbox

Sunday, November 1, 2015 — 6 min read

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