Tim Addison

I’d like to say that all my time writing relative import statements like this has taught me some valuable lessons: However, I can safely say…

Log Analytics is a great product - easy to get data ingested, and easy to query it. It’s also pretty easy to run up a sizeable bill (with…

The Problem When developing apps I’ll sometimes want to mock a dependency for reasons other than unit testing: Simulating flaky behaviour…

After spending so long authoring technical blog posts/documentation in Markdown, it’s a jarring transition to get dropped back into…

A quick example which shows how you can add a new field to every item in a collection. In this case, driven by the motivation to move away from the Timestamp data type and start working with unix time instead.

I'm now sharing link roundups - interesting stuff I've seen and you might find interesting.

If you'd like your blog posts to have a cover image show up on the post list and (or!) the post page, this guide will let you get responsive images that are also a11y approved.

After some tinkering with GatsbyJS, I was pretty excited about moving my blog over from Jekyll - great performance, SEO and accessibility out of the box were one reason, and the fact I know far more React/JS than Ruby was another. This post covers my experiences, as well as a few shortcuts that helped make the transition relatively painless.

Applying Tailwind's reset to the Gatsby blog starter will leave the Markdown posts looking pretty spartan. Get them looking great again with a few @applys.

I’ve been building a few apps recently that leverage Cloud Firestore for data storage. These are personal apps and don’t store anything…