It’s 2022, almost 7yrs since the last update. A lot has changed. My linkedin profile is always the best place to find out my current role. TL;DR: Now working at Poundland eCommerce
Week ending - 11th October
There are a few things I discovered this week worth noting: Docker empty volumes Starting React Profile refresh Debug Docker empty volumes Earlier in the week I mo...
September Page Speed
Hitting 100 on Google Pagespeed feels like it’s impossible to hit right now. Despite a lot of effort to hit & maintain the current rating it’s really hard to push past 97%. The main reason app...
Fixing Git checkout line endings
Recently when I was trying to run brew update on my Mac I was hitting errors that claimed I had uncommitted changes to my local brew and yet I hadn’t made any changes. It didn’t matter what I did, ...
Top 5 Website Performance - July 2015
The site I write the code for, approvedfood.co.uk, on my own is consistently ranked Top 5 for performance in the UK! We beat eBay in July! IRUK 500: Web Performance Tracker for PageSpeed.
Fix node privileges when using brew
Fix node privilege issues when installed via brew. User will be constantly receive permission denied without this fix. brew update brew upgrade brew cleanup brew install node brew link --overwrite...
Optimising Nginx & PHP-FPM
Some notes from another round of performance optimisation of our server stack hosting our online platform that dramatically improved customer experience too. The environment is a set of dedicate...
High WindowServer CPU load on Mac OSX Yosemite
My Macbook Pro was recently suffering from 100% CPU pretty much all of the time and it took quite a while to solve them problem and breathe life back into my workhorse. TL;DR Disable Little Snit...
Relocating to Github.io
I recently chose to take up the challenge of using github.io to host my long-standing blog. As I write, I’ve hopefully move all of my old posts over to Jekyll Markdown format by the magic of some ...
How To Achieve Some Focus
I’ve been fortunate recently to take a break from video game development and really focus on what the next exciting stage of my career is going to be. I was overseas for a week recently in a remot...