Henry James Blyth
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Eye contact warnings👋 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
Removing Google Analytics
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“Please disable JavaScript to view this site” – Heydon Pickering
I’ve been following the glory that is Heydon Pickering (@heydonworks) moving their WHOLE SITE into a
<noscript>element and showing users a very simple message:New Year’s Resolutions for 2023
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Totally low pressure and achievable
- Do those things you want to do!
- Don’t be anxious.
- Don’t have ADHD.
Eye contact warnings
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I’m sooooooooooo glad I’ve learnt about these
Since I’ve joined Tech.LGBT I’ve come to learn about various content warnings. One such warning that I hadn’t realised I wasn’t giving for my own website was for eye contact - I had a giant selfie photo in my posts list! I’ve since fixed that: see git commit here .
Class getters vs methods in vanilla JS
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when debugging them
Using class getters is really easy with the help of TypeScript. Kinda makes me feel like I’m writing Ruby!