Let’s talk about the elephant in the room. It’s 2021, and we are in the midst of both a climate crisis, and a global pandemic (made more likely to happen by said crisis).
By 2030, it is estimated that the tech industry (ICT) will account for between 8 and 20%…
A quick tutorial on serving cropped, SEO friendly, ̶W̶e̶b̶P̶ images on the latest version of Umbraco
Note: This tutorial was last updated for RC version:
9.0.0-RC (08/07/21)
Under the hood of Umbraco sits a powerful set of media management tools that allow you to serve performant images, that are SEO…
A Beginners 101 to using the Procreate App on iOS(iPadOS) and iPad Pro with Apple Pencil
Since getting my iPad Pro, I have been a big fan of Procreate, its where I do all of my illustration now, it’s so clean and smart, but there is some assumed knowledge that should be in some sort of tour (or maybe there was and I skipped it 🤷♂).
Typography
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Preparing for the Google Cloud Platform Professional Cloud Architect Exam
My journey to becoming a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Professional Architect started in April 2020, giving myself a little over 3 months to learn the material.
If you have been using GCP as part of your daily work, and you have a good technical knowledge, this is a good amount…
Using Rollup to include SCSS directly into your Sapper App
Sapper is a great, and efficient way to build your website with a SSR version of Svelte. …
A Simple Tutorial to easily make a URL shortener like bit.ly or ow.ly and roll your own short domains.
Services like bit.ly and ow.ly are great, and provide a handy way to shorten long, and often hard to remember URLs, into shorter, more digestible ones. When investigating how to make my own version, I came across Firebase Dynamic Links.
Firebase is a web and app platform from Google that…
Tris Tolliday describes his vision of a web UI catapulted forwards by 5G
First published in net magazine 16/04/2020
5G is a data revolution about to change every aspect of modern life, connecting everyone in real-time with unparalleled flows of data. …
Building C# MVC Websites with a CMS can make it difficult to create structured data; which in turn fuels rich snippets on Google.
What are Rich Snippets?
Rich Snippets are a feature of most search engines that use structured data to provide a better user experience than traditional search results, and can give your…
Voice assistants are hopping out of emerging tech and into everyday life. As a front end developer, you already have the skills to build one, so let’s dive into the platforms.
Over the past decade, there has been a seismic shift towards conversational interfaces. As people reach ‘peak screen’ and…
A look back from then to now, a decade in our digital world
Moores Law means a decade is a long time in tech. Whole empires are born, broken, and dissolved. The last 10 years has marked a revolution in AI, Cloud computing, and nanoscale components. …
