Dean Hume

Charts

Using a Raspberry Pi to track the progress of your homebrew

In this article I go into detail about how I hooked up a Raspberry to continually track and monitor the progress of my beer all whilst graphing it out to another application. It gets a little geeky!

Service Workers

Has Service Worker usage increased on this website over the past four years?

It's been almost four years since I started collecting data on Service Worker usage and support on this website and in this article I show the details.

Leadership

Leading Virtual Teams - Book Review

I’m always on the lookout to improve both myself and my team's daily work, so when I came across a book entitled Leading Virtual Teams by the Harvard Business Review, it really caught my eye.

Ghost

Ghost CMS & Linux - Fixing "No Space Left on Device" Issue

I was quite surprised to found out that I was greeted with an annoying HTTP 503 error on my site over the Christmas period. After taking a closer look at the logs on Amazon, it turns out that I had actually run out of disk space on the instance.

Book Review

Book Review - Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and Devops

During my morning coffee session, I came across the book - Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and Devops, and the title of the book instantly drew me in.

Book Review

The People Manager: A Guide for the First Time Manager - has been published!

Behind the scenes, I have been working on a new book with my EA colleague Jo Root. I am super excited to announce that The People Manager: A Guide for the First Time Manager has been published! This is a personal project that has been a year in the making.

My Favourite Soft Skills Interview Questions

In my day to day role, a big part of what I do involves hiring and assessing Software Engineers. It might not be to everyone’s liking, but I really do enjoy the interview process. It’s a great chance to meet new people and I often learn new things

JavaScript

Experimenting with the Streams API

I am always looking for ways to build faster, slicker web pages. Where applicable, I’ll use great new browser features such as service workers, HTTP/2 and improved compression, just to name a few. But what if I told you there was a way to build even faster web

Progressive Web Apps

Brewfather - Progressive App Review

In my spare time I enjoy a little bit of homebrewing. What first started out as an experiment with a beer kit, soon turned into a geeky fascination with the science behind brewing beer. I am one of those annoying people that sniffs the beer and comments on the aroma

Progressive Web Apps

Service Workers can save the environment!

Service workers allow you to cache resources on the user's device when they visit your site for the first time. Fewer HTTP requests mean less CPU usage and less energy consumed.

Progressive Web Apps

Converting a Ghost blog to a Progressive Web App

In this article, I am going to take you through the different steps required to get a Ghost blog up and running as a Progressive Web App (*hint: it’s easier than you think!*)

Leadership

Lessons learnt: Leaving an organisation

In my experience, leaving an organisation is a big deal. Given the amount of time we spend at work, we ultimately end up spending more time with our colleagues than our loved ones! If you’ve been with an organisation for a while, you’ve probably worked hard to establish

Progressive Web Apps

Progressive Web Apps - My new book is available!

I am super excited to announce that my latest book has been published and is available to purchase! A few years ago, I was sitting in a conference room listening to Google’s Alex Russell talk about Service Workers and how they were the next big thing that was going

Web Performance

Guest Posts and Advent Calendars

This year, I’ve been lucky enough to write two articles for two great “advent calendar” style sites. I try to write for the Performance Calendar every year around this time and this year I’ve written about progressive image loading using Intersection Observer and SQIP. In this article, I

Progressive Web Apps

Progressive Web Apps - Podcast

I was lucky enough to be interviewed recently by Matthew Groves on his podcast Cross Cutting Concerns where I talked about Progressive Web Apps. We discussed the basics of Progressive Web Apps and the different tools and techniques available to web developers. Matthew has had some pretty cool speakers on

CSS

Book Review: The New CSS Layout

I’ll be the first to raise my hand and admit that my CSS skills are about as stinky as the stinkiest egg sandwich. I just about manage to get by and normally rely on frameworks such as Material Design Lite or my colleagues for advice. This is why I

Progressive Web Apps

How much storage space is my Progressive Web App using?

If you had told me when I first start developing many years ago, that I’d be able to build websites that work on a mobile device and even respond when offline - I’d be blown away! One of my favourite features of Progressive Web Apps is the ability

Web Performance

Lazy loading images using Intersection Observer

If you haven’t had the chance to watch it yet, Paul Lewis put together an awesome video series that demonstrates how to build a media player alongside some of the great features of Progressive Web Apps. There are a series of videos on YouTube that take place over a

Progressive Web Apps

Getting Started with Workbox: JavaScript Libraries for your next Progressive Web App

When it comes to building Progressive Web Apps, my favourite library has to be the Service Worker toolbox. I’ve previously written about this great library and how it can make life a lot easier for developers by removing boilerplate code and using proven caching strategies that help you build

Progressive Web Apps

Persistent Storage API: Building for the offline web

One of my favourite features of service workers is that they give you the ability to build web apps that work completely offline. Using service workers, you can write code that will cache any resources that a user might require, so that they can be retrieved at a later stage,

Progressive Web Apps

A BIG list of Progressive Web App tips & tricks

Lately I’ve been giving a lot of talks about Progressive Web Apps. Towards the end of the talks there is normally a Q & A section where the audience asks questions or proposes ideas. Often during these Q & A sessions, I get asked really useful questions that are worth sharing

Progressive Web Apps

I'll be speaking at Fluent Conf 2017

I am very excited to announce that I'll be presenting at this year's Fluent Conference in San Jose. It is my first time at Fluent Conference, and I am very excited to be presenting. Fluent Conference 2017 will take place on the 19th - 22nd June, and I’ll be

JavaScript

Shape Detection API: Detecting barcodes, faces and text inside an image

Did you know that your device has the amazing ability to detect different shapes in images? Right now, whether you are on a mobile, tablet or desktop, it is capable of detecting faces, barcodes and even text in an image. Pretty amazing, huh?! According to the HTTP archive, images make

Web Performance

Experimenting with the Server Timing API

You may be familiar with the saying “If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it”. This saying couldn’t be more true when it comes to web performance. In our browsers today, we already have great APIs such as Navigation Timing and Resource Timing built-in, which allow

Progressive Web Apps

Getting started with the Web Share API

If you’ve ever built a website and needed the ability to share to a social network, you’ll know that it’s not as easy as it first seems. In order to add basic share functionality, you often need to include a third party script and become familiar with