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Browser dev tools are so full of features it’s hard to keep up. I bet every developer knows a different set of features to each other. I wanted to share a few little tips that I use, that you might not know and that if I don’t write down I might forget.

Git back to the future

Git may be the best version control software I’ve used but it is a complex beast and makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. Recently, however, I learned of one way that you can unshoot yourself and potentially save yourself hours of lost work.

A community offers to help

Last week I was blown away by the response to a problem I was experiencing from maintainers of two of the larger open source projects in the Ruby world. And not just your average large Ruby projects, but implementations of Ruby itself.

Install a service worker declaratively

There’s been some interesting updates in service workers recently. The big news is that the Microsoft Edge development version now has service workers, alongside push notifications and background sync, behind flags. There was a new feature that caught my eye though; a declarative method for registering service workers.

August is iOS month

June saw me ask for your help as I started to learn Swift. July was busy with travel. Now August is iOS month.