luke.b//blog

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~ #blog #tutorial

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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~ #blog #dev

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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~ #blog #personal

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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~ #blog #game #idea

I came up with this idea for a competitive improv-based party game that turns out to be incredibly fun and a welcome distraction from Everything Going On Right Now. I tried playing it with a few friends on a trip and it was a great success.

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~ #blog #personal

I’m feeling pensive this evening so I wanted to capture something that I’ve been thinking about recently. I keep thinking about these imaginary ticking clocks counting up from several different moments of my life, each significant in that they represent a change in direction or job or location or relationship.

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~ #blog #personal

hi. I want to write about me for a minute. Mostly because I never do despite my self-obsessed nature. I mean look at all these other posts about the cool techy stuff I’m thinking about all the time. I’m such a show-off 🙄

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~ #blog #dev

I’ve been working as part of a product team for a while now and I’ve started to pick up on a pattern. It comes back to whether development is focused on building what I’m calling features or functions. These terms are quite similar and are quite frequently used interchangeably in software engineering - they’re very similar in definition.

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~ #blog #personal #mission-me

Last year I started journaling a bit more seriously than I had before. Up until January 2019, I’d only journaled specific trips. Most of the time I wrote about what I was doing but between these logs I would sometimes write more personally about how I was feeling.

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~ #blog #idea #decentralise

I keep on having this recurring idea that would allow people to host their own app data in their own personal data silo, maintaining control over it and importantly privacy by potentially encrypting it. Technically, this is doable. But what are the advantages of being able to do this and would things actually be better than with centralised so-called “Walled Garden” apps?

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~ #blog #dev #team

When our teams turned vertical a few months ago, we held a meeting to discuss how to keep the front-end part of the system progressing effectively. There were three front-end developers (including myself) who were moving to three separate, vertical product teams.

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