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Enjoying trying to keep up with the ever-changing development world, also manages the development team over at Stickyeyes.

A little bit about me

I am based in Leeds, UK and apart from the obvious interest in dev, I am practicing photography, becoming a better cook and trying to get better at writing.

As a developer I work across a spectrum of different projects including interactive creative pieces, full-site builds and API based tools. My current focuses are on learning React w/ Gatsby and improving my knowledge around building accessible web experiences.

Recent Posts

As part of trying to get better at writing there's only one way and that's practice...

Using Optional Chaining and Nullish Coalescing Operator in JavaScript

Using these two operators provides you some serious opportunities to write robust code in a way that doesn't require additional libraries or harder to read code. Well worth trying out!

15 August 2021

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How to ask for help debugging the right way

We've all needed help from somebody else solving an issue, and theres nothing wrong with that. Helping each other is one of the great parts of being in a team, what we will look at here is how to do this effectively.

8 May 2020

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Using React Helmet to Manage the Document Head and SEO tags

Managing the <head> of your HTML document is made very easy using the react-helmet component. In this post we look at how to do it and what are the minimum SEO tags that you should be including with it.

13 April 2020

(Reading time: 8 minutes)