Henry James Blyth
👋 About
Henry is a Full-stack Software Engineer, pianist, and photographer from Oxford, UK.
- For fun:
- I recreated a one-handed touchscreen keyboard seen in the film Ender’s Game: github.com/henrahmagix/enders-keyboard
- I made a random generator of double exposures in the browser: henryblyth.com/doubles/random
💻 Skills
- Ruby && Rails / Padrino
- Golang
- JavaScript && TypeScript
- Google Cloud && AWS
- Angular && Svelte && Vue
- NodeJS && Express && Gulp / Grunt && Webpack / Rollup
💌 Random posts
Read more in my blog
Double exposure random generator is back online!
Published
That’s right, it’s back!
I’ve replaced https://lorempixel.com with https://picsum.photos, which serves with CORS headers so the browser will let us play with and display the images through JavaScript.
Class getters vs methods in vanilla JS
Published
when debugging them
Using class getters is really easy with the help of TypeScript. Kinda makes me feel like I’m writing Ruby!
How LLMs ruin written communication
Published
Word poison is bad for people
“Communication is important! My life is being ruined by LLMs!”
lol I made my own component framework
Published – last updated
why did I do this (oh yeah because of the pandemic)
This website is a playground for me, so I decided to rewrite my Blog Admin code to use Web Components. It worked, and I liked it! 🎉 But then I didn’t: writing HTML in JavaScript strings isn’t great. Why can’t we have both HTML and JavaScript defined in the same file and encapsulated separate from the rendered page?