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 …

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. …