Security Threats Introduced By GDPR

Jan 17 2018

GDPR is supposed to protect the privacy of individuals but it also opens up new security threats which can threaten a company.

I’m not a lawyer, or any sort of GDPR expert, but like lots of people I’m becoming very interested in the GDPR rules as...

Rails Testing with Headless Chrome on Heroku CI

Aug 19 2017

I recently started setting up a Rails app on Heroku CI . It was mostly pretty painless but there were a few tricks to getting our Capybara specs running.

Heroku don’t fully support running browser tests yet; I mean, it works but it took a little finagling...

The one thing

Feb 10 2017

I reached the end of the pool, finishing another 200m interval, and was taking a quick breather and a drink, before setting off again.

“Hi”, said the girl in the other lane. “Do you mind if I ask you a question?”

“Sure”

“What’s the one thing someone...

Does your backpack come with an instructional video?

Jan 25 2017

Well, does it?

I mean, that would be pretty ridiculous, right? Who needs a video to learn how to use a backpack? How bad would a backpack need to be that it needs you to sit through a 30min —thirty minute— video to figure out how to use it.

Well...

Querying CSV files in SQL

Jan 10 2017

I had a need to query a CSV file this morning. It was an export of users in Intercom and I wanted to find all the users with duplicate email addresses.

Numbers

You can kinda do this in Numbers by creating a new column with the formula

=COUNTIF(...

Moving from Wordpress to Middleman

Jan 1 2017

I’ve been unhappy running Wordpress for a few years, particularly the effort required to keep the server, the Wordpress instances, plugins, and themes updated. Of course, you don’t have to do this, and most of the internet doesn’t, which is why we...

Appy New Year

Dec 28 2015

I looked back over the past year to find the new apps that changed the way I work, those that lived up to their promise, and those which have earned their place on my laptop (or iPhone, or web browser).

ZoomIt (mac)

A great little app for inspecting...

Microconf Europe 2015

Sep 23 2015

Microconf Europe 2015

It’s been 3 weeks since Microconf Europe and I’m finally getting time to reflect on the experience. I felt like a seasoned veteran now that it was my second Microconf; last year’s conference in Prague was hand-down the best conference...

Why Rollbar is the exceptional Exception Tracker

Jul 6 2015

I’ve used a few exception trackers over the years: first Airbrake (I won a lifetime account way back when); BugSnag for about a year; and Rollbar for the past few years.¹

What does an Exception Tracker do?

We all make mistakes. Sometimes we forget...

It's all about the (creative) process

Jun 8 2015

How do you get from a design to actual code?

That was my big question last week and, if you’re primarily a developer, you might be wondering the same thing.

I hear a lot of web designers talking about working in Sketch or Photoshop, but I just couldn...