Henry James Blyth
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A World with No Secrets👋 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
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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!
iPadOS cursor on the web
Published
just because it’s fun!
Are Apple good at designing UIs (User Interfaces)? Should a touch device only be a touch device? Or is it time for more precision and control that doesn’t cost over £100 and isn’t a pencil?
Pretty and random animated blog post images
Published – last updated
but now I’m not using them any more :(
I recently made a small change to my blog list page by showing images in the list, to provide a clearer identifier for posts you may have already read. But not every post has an image, so what could I show for a default? Ooh, how about a random gradient?