Jan 15, 2021Making sure you’re not doing everything at workMaking sure you’re not doing everything at work“How can I better manage my own & my teams workloads so that we’re all equally busy rather than one is manic and one is twiddling thumbs?” This was a question from a long-time friend, Ant over on the OnTheSide Slack group the other day. …Management4 min readManagement4 min read
Published in Liquid Light·Apr 5, 2020Why should you consider Cloudflare for your website?Cloudflare is a service which, among other things, provides a CDN (Content Delivery Network), firewall, and performance layer for your website. …Cloudflare6 min readCloudflare6 min read
Published in Liquid Light·Dec 10, 2019How do you deal with designers who design without any thought?I was listening to a recent podcast of Syntax, when there was a “Potluck” question episode ( number 194 to be precise) the other day and one of the questions (about 13 minutes 11 seconds in) really got me thinking: How do you deal with designers who design without any…Design5 min readDesign5 min read
Published in Liquid Light·Oct 29, 2019Member-onlyHow to become device agnostic and what it means for your data/dɪˈvʌɪs aɡˈnɒstɪk/ Allow the user to view, edit and add to their data regardless of the technology used Last month my phone had to be sent off for repair. For a lot of people, sending off their mobile phone would bring on “the fear”. Worries about losing data and “what if I…Apple10 min readApple10 min read
Published in Liquid Light·Apr 12, 2019The technical challenges in building a data portalWe recently designed and built a data portal which collects disaggregated data from multiple sources from 40 countries for Leonard Cheshire and The Department for International Development.This data is presented on the portal in a series of visualisations across 16 development indicators, grouped into the four themes of inclusive education, economic empowerment, technology/innovation and stigma/discrimination.Web Development5 min readWeb Development5 min read
Jun 22, 2017How I kicked a millennial habitHello, my name is Mike Street and I’m addicted to my phone. It’s not often you change a habit and it’s certainly not every day you claim a YouTube video changed your life, but last week I altered what was the norm for me. …Mobile4 min readMobile4 min read
Jan 30, 2017Use a Raspberry Pi with multiple WiFi networksI have recently been carrying my Raspberry Pi back and forth between my home and my local hack space — BuildBrighton. Both places have WiFi and with a Raspberry Pi A+ missing an ethernet port, you need to ensure you can access the Pio to do any sort of development…Raspberry Pi2 min readRaspberry Pi2 min read
Nov 21, 2016Find and remove vendor prefixes in your CSS using RegexI recently set out to remove all of the vendor prefixes from the CSS for all of our clients at work. This is because we use Gulp with Autoprefixer — which means we have up-to-date prefixes and cleaner SCSS. One way of doing this would be to open every CSS…Web Development2 min readWeb Development2 min read
Nov 3, 2016Set up a new Virtual Private Server (VPS)Set up a new Virtual Private Server (VPS) Please note, these commands and steps have worked for me. I know a small bit about servers but not enough to take responsibility for anything in this post — enter the commands at your own risk! I recently acquired a cheap VPS…Nodejs4 min readNodejs4 min read
May 20, 2016CSS Frameworks are like sex…Since I read it a couple of years ago, this quote has really stuck with me. With recent front-end twitter conversation turning to CSS frameworks, I went on a roller coaster of emotions but eventually settled on the above to sum up how I felt about the ordeal. …CSS3 min readCSS3 min read
