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Beating the demo gods

Despite the best efforts of the infamous demo gods, sometimes you can come out on top.


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Building a surprise

I’ve never really got into the TV series Gavin and Stacey but I decided to watch the finale and the documentary about the making of it. The finale was brilliantly written and the documentary gave some insight into how they did this.


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Innovation tokens

When you work in technology it is tempting to bring in the new exciting technologies that claim to make your life easier, run faster and bring you rainbow unicorns every day.


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Context switching and code reviews

You are deep in a piece of work and making great progress when a phone call or message breaks you train of thought and derails you. Context switching can have a huge impact on productivity.


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Improved weather forecasts

At the moment we are deep in the clutches of Storm Darragh as it batters the UK. We have currently lost one fence panel and there may be more casualties. I looks like I will get to experience the “joy” soon of watching my son play football in high winds and torrential rain.


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Crafting the perfect intro

In an interview, Clay Herbert walks Nathan Barry through creating the best answer to the question “So what do you do?”. We have all been asked that at some point when meeting someone new.


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Making money from free content

Sam Harris gives away his content for free but still makes money.


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Rebecca purple

The community for the CSS-Next repository recently had a vote to decide on a new official logo. The colour chosen for the new logo was rebeccapurple. This colour was introduced to the CSS specification in 2014.


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Stay in the game

In a recent interview Mo Salah shared some advice he received from the ex-Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger that has stuck with him.


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Finding better domain names

Finding a good available domain name for a project, product or company is hard but there is one web tool that I have found is more successful than others.


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