Definition Health
7th September 2020In September 2020 I joined Definition Health, a small company founded by two NHS consultants with the aim to improve quality of care using both patient and clinician facing digital products.
#JavaScript
Day.js external
30th January 2020"Day.js 2KB immutable date library alternative to Moment.js with the same modern API" This seems like a good step forward, Moment is brilliant it is quite large, this could be a good replacement.
Remove SVG Whitespace external
15th January 2020Quite often I need a quick way to trim an SVG so it has no whitespace, I use this JS Fiddle I found as it makes it really simple to do. I'm not sure who wrote it but it basically modifies the viewbox to be the SVG's bounding box then returns the updated SVG. Nice and simple.
Authory
3rd December 2019Authory makes tools for journalists. I helped them with their frontend, making sure it is as easy to work with as possible.
Taking GDPR Seriously
29th November 2019For better or for worse, the web is now full of modal screens that block progress until you accept or reject cookies.
Building a microsite using GraphQL, CraftCMS and 11ty
30th July 2019One Sunday I was having breakfast with a friend and got talking about team structures and how projects vary. It was a really useful discussion and I felt that other people might find conversations like that useful too, this idea very quickly became Interviews by Shane Hudson. I began building it that day and within just over a week I published the website with five interviews.
[PDF] A Model for Reasoning About JavaScript Promises external
25th July 2019This is an open access article written by Magnus Madsen, Ondřej Lhoták and Frank Tip, published by the ACM in 2017. I'm bookmarking it here to read later but it appears to provide a framework to better understand Promises in JavaScript. According to the abstract: "Based on λp, we introduce the promise graph, a program representation that can assist programmers with debugging of promise-based code."
LimeSCAN
1st March 2019During 2018-2019 I worked again with Lime Microsystems, this time to build LimeSCAN a geographic data analysis system for radio frequencies. This consisted of a fleet of Raspberry Pi and a Vue.js based front-end.
Designing A Textbox, Unabridged external
22nd September 2018I wrote this article for Smashing Magazine as a way to explore how complicated the most seemingly simple of tasks can be. In it I create a textbox but go through a very exaggerated process of defining exactly how it should work.
NHS Digital
20th July 2017For three years (2017-2020) I worked within the team at NHS Digital on 111 online to ensure excellent accessibility and performance of the website. In this time it's gone from GDS private beta through to a live service helping millions of people get medical help.