Hello, I'm Matt. I built my first website around 20 years ago and I’ve been coding things ever since! I'm currently a tech lead at Smart Pension and this is my blog about (mainly front-end) web development.
My heatmap was not very good because the shops and restaurants I'd plotted were a proxy for a population map rather than highlighting outstandingly fancy places so I learned how to read the British National Grid.
How does FT.com serve 40 million page views a month? With help from an old, imperfect and somewhat inefficient solution.
We wanted our collection of microservices to share and reuse the JavaScript assets they each compile. How hard could that be?!
A project at the start of my career came with very little chance of success.
Learning from legacy and defenses against haunted forests ⚔️
And there are 27 more posts in the archive…