Written by Phil Sturgeon
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on Oct. 26, 2020
As the science-denial perpetrated omnishambles of 2020 continues, COVID-19 rages on whilst Europe gets hit by deadly storms and flash floods, wildfires are big enough to be called “gigafires”, the Arctic refuses to freeze for the first time on record, thousands are displaced by flooding in Vietnam,…
Written by Phil Sturgeon
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on Oct. 15, 2020
I use gatsby-remark-oembed by Benedicte Raae, because it makes embedding Tweets, Instagram posts, YouTube videos, etc in Phil.Tech and Phil.Bike as simple as pasting in the URL. If it's hot, sit under a tree. If it's cold, put your jacket on. If it's raining, keep riding until you find somewhere dr…
Written by Phil Sturgeon
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on Aug. 19, 2020
OpenAPI has come a long way since its nascent days as Swagger. It’s got excellent tooling, is talked about at all the conferences, is used by governments, major banks, healthcare providers, GitHub, Stripe, all sorts. Everyone is using it to bring the benefits of a type system to the world of REST,…
Written by Phil Sturgeon
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on May. 22, 2020
When I started working at WeWork back in 2016 I rather quickly discovered that the entire architecture was a total mess… Over the course of the 18 months I managed to stay there, we fixed a whole lot of that mess. No APIs were documented so people would just build a new version of whatever resource…
Written by Phil Sturgeon
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on Feb. 22, 2020
Companies are stepping up to go carbon neutral (or even carbon negative), and the number of big companies offering remote work is on the rise, but remote work in the States is still only 3-5%. With most of the world (especially the U.S.) desperately needing to sort its carbon footprint out, remote…
Written by Phil Sturgeon
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on Dec. 28, 2019
Over the years I've used about 20 different web application frameworks (tool-kits for making server-side applications), contributed to a few, and maintained a couple of popular ones. I've got a bit of a theory that many developers are introduced to new methodologies as and when their framework deli…