Will Webberley

Python's Flask framework is an easy and excellent tool for writing web applications. Its in-built features and ecosystem of supporting…

By now I'm sure everyone has heard the horror stories about people (seemingly-) randomly losing access to their Google accounts. Often the…

A few months ago I stumbled across this article: Beyond Cyberpunk: Towards a Solarpunk Future. It was posted on the excellent blog Tales…

This month marks a year from when I decided to (mostly - see below) stop answering my phone. This was not because I wanted to be antisocial…

Last week I read The Midnight Library by Matt Haig. The book won the 2020 Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction. The Midnight Library cover…

For many small or personal services running on a VPS in the cloud, administration is often done by connecting directly to the server via SSH…

Many people no longer feel comfortable using Facebook. Whether you were never a member to begin with or you've had an account but chosen to…

Shapes and patterns can be leveraged in user interfaces to guide your users, draw attention to content, lend weight or emphasis, or just for…

React state React state management is what gives the library its reactiveness. It's what makes it so easy to build performant data-driven…

Many people would consider RSS - Really Simple Syndication - to be a relic of the past. However I think it has been making a comeback. RSS…

A few months ago I discovered Blogging for Devs - I think through Product Hunt when it made it to #1 Product of the Day back in August last…

If you need a database for your next project, why not first consider if SQLite might be a good option? And I don't mean just for getting an…

Recently I finished reading Dirty Little Secrets. This is the first book I have read by Jo Spain and the first time I have known of the…

If you've visited my geminispace (gemini://g.wilw.dev) you'll have noticed that I've recently been on a mission to decentralise the every…

I know that I've been a bit crap at updating my blog properly and consistently over the past few years. One of my new year's resolutions…

Over the past few months I have been trying to use centralised "big tech" social media platforms less and instead immerse myself into the…

Building apps on serverless architecture has been a game-changer for me and for developers everywhere, enabling small dev teams to cheaply…