ok bye, 2016
WHAT AN ABSOLUTE SHIT SHOW. 2016 was an absolute mess, on all accounts. It is not a year I'd like to repeat. Like last year I want to call out the good things I did so I can refer back to this and go "good job i guess lol". In…
Open Open Source
By day, I'm a developer for Marks & Spencer Digital. Any other time, my work is within the Open Source community. I'm a core member of Hoodie and a member of the Node.js inclusivity Working Group. I'm also the creator of Your First PR, an initiative to get folk…
Making Your First Pull Request
When I started teaching myself to code, the majority of it was in isolation. I would read books, watch videos and do interactive tutorials online. Then comes sleep, waking up and doing the cycle again. I was learning a lot, but I felt like I was missing something. I was…
The road to Scotland JS
Awesome news: I am going to talk at Scotland JS! When Peter invited me, I started panicking. Someone wanted me to speak at a conference? I don't speak at conferences. I'm 100% not a speaker. One of the last times I tried to speak on stage it was at my…
The web is okay
Like most things I write, the primary goal of this post is to give me a positivity kick. If you take anything away from this, that's pretty cool. As always, I can only speak to my own experiences. So: We're just over two weeks into the new year, and things…