When we talk about design systems, a lot of time is spent talking about what a thing is, creating a shared understanding to what things are is just as important as what the names themselves. These things are thought about as getting progressively big...
One of the parts of my job I enjoy most is getting to spend time with the wider team and sharing what we are doing. Thursday, Craig and Simon hosted a patterns meet-up in Leeds. This work has stopped and started a few times now for various reasons, s...
Seems like it is a New Year tradition that I move my blog to a new format. Last year I moved from Ghost to markdown and WordPress, this meant my site was a little easier to manage but also a lot slower. Over 2017 I got to use jekyll on a couple of si...
Whenever I am pairing with other developers we always seem to hit a similar topic; abstraction. There is ever a clear-cut answer to that question, as it requires the context of the code and the state of the application. Overly abstracted code can mak...
I had an odd feeling looking at my weeknotes notes, they where blank this is probably reflective of an over busy week! Monday The Monday before a sprint ends is always an odd one, I seem to spend a long time closing JIRA tasks and making sure everyth...
My s01e04 where not a typical week most weeks what I do is generally a lot more focused around development work (as you will see very shortly), but I am excited that I now have a streak of two. Monday I pushed an update to govuk-elements-nunjucks, it...