My Journey of DevOps Discovery

I'm going to take you on a journey. This is the journey of my career thus far and the discoveries that have made dealing with DevOps more pleasant.

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Hackathonarama 3: with great power comes great hacks

For the third year running I attended Hackference again. Once again, a 1 day conference followed by a 24 hour hackathon and as always a really great weekend.

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Simple sharing

The line between the web and native applications is becoming more and more blurred. One of the latest goodies to land in browsers that gives our users a consistent, seamless experience is the Web Share API currently only available in Chrome.

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Quick & easy offline support

Adding offline support to your site is easier than ever these days thanks to service workers.

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Create your own mini call center with Twilio

Have you ever wanted to run your own call center, but, like, a really small one? No? OK, do you know of any small groups of people that could benefit from all being contactable with a single number? Imagine a conference or meetup with a phone number you can call to report code of conduct violations that will put you through to the first available organiser.

I'm going to show you how you can do this with the help of Twilio and a small Node.js application.

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