Whilst doing some work in a library I maintain, I needed to add in the ability to calculate the hash of an included file for an integrity check feature I was adding in. The resulting solution is …

For years the people have been asking for tab groups in Chrome. While extensions do exist, they’re somewhat fickle. Now, tab groups are natively supported in Google Chrome itself. While the …

Recently, whilst working on an open-source project I work on we found ourselves running out of space on the server. The weird thing is the projects on the server themselves were barely 100mb in total …

I love using Jest to unit test my Aurelia applications. Sadly, one of the most popular options for mocking event listeners and simulating events called Enzyme is targeted at React applications and to …

Perhaps one of the most confusing aspects of building a publicly visible Firebase application hosted on GitHub is when you add in your SDK configuration details and commit them you’ll get …

Today, I came across something which quite frankly shocked me. The AFP Tweeted out the following Tweet. On the surface, this might seem like a harmless attempt to tell people about efforts to notify …

I love a good conspiracy theory. Some of my favourite conspiracy theories include the Royal Family being shape-shifting lizards, part of some global reptilian elite controlling the world or Alex …

I have the weirdest and sometimes most profound thoughts about the most useless stuff. I actually asked myself this question whilst in the shower this morning: is there going to be a USB-D? Do we need …

Every so often thought-pieces will go around proclaiming that you are writing code the wrong way and that you should be writing your code this way instead. One such opinion I have seen (and will not …

Recently, the BBC published an article titled Why we’ve never fallen in love with virtual reality in which they discuss virtual realities lack of mainstream consumer adoption. The article then …