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July 15, 2023
Improving type safety with real custom scalars in TypeScript
TypeScript’s type system is a bit loose, largely because it eventually has to compile down to JavaScript. One of the big limitations with its type system is that custom scalar types only act as...
ReadMay 4, 2023
How I expose local sites with a self-hosted tunnel
Recently, I've been working on slackbot side projects (Decisionlog and Summarizer). Being Slackbots, they need to be able to receive requests from Slack. So, in order to develop them, I need to be...
ReadMarch 19, 2023
Progressive permissions for Slack apps
With Slack's deprecation of its legacy Workspace Apps, the ability to interactively request further permissions was lost. However, you can still request an extend permission scope using your own...
ReadNovember 2, 2022
Join the modern era - deploy every day
When I hear someone say “we don’t release on Fridays so developers don’t have to work late”, I shudder. If you won’t release on a Friday, I’m guessing you’re not releasing one change at...
ReadOctober 18, 2022
You don’t need breaking changes
If you take a look at the API versions (which denote breaking changes) in the Stripe API upgrades documentation, you’ll see something remarkable – between August 2020 and August 2022, Stripe made...
ReadOctober 6, 2022
Why we wrote a Kubernetes operator to generate random strings
Earlier this week, I attended KubeHuddle in Edinburgh. Conferences always provide motivation through all the ideas you develop from conversations with people. In talking to various platform engineers...
ReadSeptember 7, 2022
Where's that domain managed from again?
If you manage a bunch of domains, you might have them across different registrars (supporting different TLDs) and different nameservers. To figure out the DNS provider you're managing a domain with...
ReadJuly 15, 2022
Automatically securing white-label sites with TLS using cert-manager
This article assumes working knowledge of Kubernetes basics like the Ingress object and annotations.
Back in 2019, we launched a new offering for our customers - a “job list”....
July 8, 2022
Simplifying containers with Laravel Octane
Containers are all the rage these days, but containerising PHP applications has always felt a bit… clunky. In the past, it’s been a choice between complex networking but efficient resource use...
ReadFebruary 5, 2019
Dynamically loading SVG files to build an Icon component with Webpack
Inline SVGs are great – you can manipulate them as you like, modify colours, easily transform them, and they look great in browsers (as opposed to icon fonts). However, in several projects now, in...
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