In the last couple of years I’ve been building apps with Parcel, a JS bundler that requires zero configuration. I’ve also been busy building a library to assist in the creation of design systems for CSS-in-JS apps, aiming to reduce the friction of creating and maintaining such a system and allow clear communication between designers and developers surrounding the design system spec.
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When the pandemic started I thought it would be a fun idea to make a game that I could play with my family. I wanted to make it interesting with some technical constraints, with one crucial one: the entire game state can be represented in a URL.
continue reading...During the pandemic I decided to make a word-checker for playing scrabble for my family. My motivation was that existing online tools take frustratingly long to respond and have ads and other information that make the experience very noisy. My aim was to make a very simple app that I could use when playing scrabble with my family.
continue reading...Since 2020, I’ve been deploying my personal website and coding projects by continuously deploying a git repository using Docker containers and docker-compose. Today I’d like to share how this works by writing a blog post that will go through the same continuous deployment, from markdown file all the way to your browser.
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Goodness! What a year it has been so far! It’s been a while since I last wrote a blog so I thought I would kick off with an update to explain where I’ve been and what I’ve been up to.
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“No, look, listen I’ve got to stay late I’ve got a deadl-… no it’s not that I don’t want to come home but-… we’ve been through this, this project is crucial, if it fails then, well I’ll be sacked and then we won’t be able to pay the bills and I’m guessing you’d prefer to have a warm house than to-… Vic!
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I was woken by a creature trying to steal my rations. It has two legs and two clawed arms, and wears what appears to be a disused container as protection for its head. It’s been following me for the last 50 levels of the structure but at least it’s no longer trying to steal my stuff.
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In my last update, it was mid November. At this point, things were looking on the up. Cases were falling thanks to the second lockdown starting in the first week of November, but this didn’t last. In December things took a dramatic turn for the worse with the discovery that a new, much more transmissible variant was spreading in London and the South East, despite the lockdown.
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I reached the base of the tower with the light source. This vert extends way beneath the hollowed surface, further than I can see at least, and upwards it soars up until it disappears behind itself. The outer shell is a dark matte metallic gray with grooves between the expanse of living quarters, working spaces and commercial zones that used to thrive.
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My covid timeline continues at the point when I arrived at home from the beginning of May. I’ve just finished spending 2 months completely alone. 5 // relief I honestly think there were times at home with my family where I felt better than I had done in a while, even before lockdown had started.
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