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KBWiki Tutorial Notes

These are running notes as I go through the KBWiki tutorial on how to make a custom keyboard.

Crimp Housing for Makers

I would have loved for someone to have told me about crimp housing when I first started playing around with electronics.

Raspberry Pi Over Serial USB on Ubuntu

One of the biggest barriers to working with a Raspberry Pi is working on it from a seperate computer. USB to Serial cables make it easy.

Testing for the Web

Automated testing on the web has some real gnarly gotchas. Time to find out what they are.

Push Debugging & Analytics

How do you add tracking for push messaging and how do you go about debugging push notifications?

Unit Testing a Service Worker

Service workers can lead to some weird behaviours if edge cases are accounted for so how do you test these edge cases?

Start Up Scripts for Raspbian

Raspbian had a update basing itself on Debian Jessie and one change that came with this is a change in the tool used for start up dependencies, this is how I'm now auto-starting a web server on a pi.

Node Unit Testing

I'm no expert, quite the opposite, when it comes to node unit testing. I spent some time trying to figure out how to unit test a new project and here's my rough findings so far.

Raspberry Pi Network

Been having some problems with my Raspberry Pi's Wifi and found two things that seem to have tremendously.

Gulp & Sass

Just been toying with performance of compiling sass - some weird things I've spotted.

Arachnidlabs Minishift and Ubuntu / Pi

The Minishift by Arachnidlabs is this crazy awesome little pixel screen that you can use to display text or what not.

Fetch is the new XHR

Fetch is a simpler way of getting resources in Javascript compared to XHR. This post is just a brain dump of how to use fetch to make requests.

What the Virtual Viewport?

We've heard the term "virtual viewport" get kicked around the office over the past few days and no one knew what it was. Rick Byers to the rescue.

Trying to do a Good Job

Developing sites with backend and front end logic, build processes, preprocessors, what ever else makes it hard to keep things clean and sane. How I've reworked things.

Push Notifications & Service Worker

Service worker is a seriously bad ass API. But what do you do with a bad ass API? Make it totes legit with some push notifications.

I promise the article is better than this intro.

DevTools Ideas

Having worked with service worker in Chrome, there are a few areas where I'm at odds with DevTools as to how to get a sane workflow.

What You Need to Know About the WebView in L

The WebView in Lollipop has been updated to M37 and comes with some new API's and alterations to some behaviours. I've noted them down just in case.

Is the Web a Developers Cwtch?

The web is awesome, no doubt about it. But are the very features that make it so powerful, also act as the very thing that holds it back.

Your Guide to SSL on Nginx

Everyone is moving to add SSL support on their site. If you're using Nginx and looking to do the same then this post is for you, walking you through from start to finish on how to add SSL support.

WebP Support with ImageMagick and PHP

This was something I've been meaning to try and figure out one way or the other. WebP has some huge wins for reducing images sizes, so here's my first attempt at getting something up and running.