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Links Updated 16 August 2023

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  • Cab Ride - A game in which you drive a train through a never-ending landscape.
  • A Single Div - Artwork by applying advanced CSS to a single <div> element.
  • Freesound - A collaborative database of Creative Commons Licensed sounds.

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My setup for coding on iPad 12 June 2022

Since getting a Magic Keyboard for my iPad Pro, I’ve been using the iPad for many areas of work for which before I would have needed a laptop.

In fact, last week I was able to use the iPad full-time when at work in our new office space, and I didn’t need to reach for my MacBook once. When I can, I prefer working on the iPad due to its flexibility, brilliant display, speed, battery life, and more.

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Parcel to the rescue 25 May 2022

Earlier this week I needed to make some changes and re-deploy an old Vue app. I hadn’t touched the codebase in over a year, and my experience with the rate of change in the front-end web space made me dread what would happen if I tried to re-awaken this thing.

Sure enough, after running a yarn install and launching the app using the scripts in package.json, a number of errors were displayed about Node/Webpack/Vue incompatibilities, and I didn’t really know where to start. I don’t use Vue on a daily basis these days, and so I don’t usually need to make an effort to keep fully up-to-date on its developments, but I knew I was several versions behind on vue, vue-loader, as well as all the sass and babel toolings. This wasn’t going to be a quick fix.

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