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2018 in review

I’ve never been one for writing a review of my year. This year I’ve found myself not only reading, but comparing myself to others’ reviews. I realised that this is not particularly helpful, so decided I’d give myself something to compare myself to at the end of 2019. Thus, here is my first year in review.

Service workers: beware Safari's range request

You’ve implemented a service worker to cache some assets. Everything is working well, your service worker is a success, you’re feeling good. But then…

I recently experimented with audio visualisation in React on the Twilio blog. While I meant to teach myself more about the web audio API I found that I picked up a few techniques for animating in canvas within a React project. If you’re creating a canvas animation in React then perhaps this will help you too.

Implementing one time passwords in Crystal

Crystal is still a young language, there aren’t a lot of libraries available yet. For some this could be offputting, but for others this is a chance to learn about a language and provide useful tools for those also starting to use it.

Git commands to keep a fork up to date

I’ve seen the following tweet about git making its way around Twitter recently: