Andrew Walpole's Blog

The idea that the web is evolving quickly is obvious, but needs pointing out. Here I reflect on how that pace is starting to have an impact on teams that haven't kept up.

Only in the last few years have I realized that web dev as a profession and a hobby is like having a superpower, but it also makes me kind of weird.

Did you know there's an entire field of computer science barely yet explored? Join me at the entrance to a deep rabbit hole as we take a look at Robust-First Computation.

In development, we have "code smells." Extending the metaphor, here are some design smells that devs can pick up on as well.

A quick write up on how Astro made it very easy to track page reads in Cloudflare KV.

Let's look at how expectations can be used as an explicit device to improve work and working relationships.

Developer experience has ramped up in focus over the last few years as a way to increase platform adoption and developer productivity. Here are the features I think make for a good DX.

Processes and systems are often built with extreme flexibility in mind, but let's look at the case for at least considering not generalizing them for the sake of it.

After years of honing my leadership style, I've landed on a one-on-one format that I quite like. Here's a deep dive into it.

As someone who has been wanting to do a podcast but not having time for it. Blogcasting seems like a great middle-ground solution.

Astro 2.0 just landed, and with it some great new features including Content Collections. Let's have a look!

Are you a company looking to build a new website? As someone who built company websites for many years, I think you should consider not going with another WordPress site.

Applying context to websites often lives tied to content, or tied to the front end, or split into both. Here I propose building a new contextual layer separate from both.

What eats at our code? A quick explorative rambling of why we have to maintain and invest in all code and digital systems.

A lot of focus remains on success and failure as traits of progress, but I've learned that it's really momentum that you should keep your eye on.

Third-party frameworks and systems abstract away complexity, but often at the cost of flexibility. Escape hatches can be a great way to bring flexibility back without compromising features.

It feels really great to get over a hard hurdle. But don't stop there, do it again.

More than once I've written some snazzy JavaScript code that I want to quickly turn into a sharable library, but the process of how to easily do that has bogged me down enough to drop the idea entirely. Here's a look at using vite to quickly publish your code as a JavaScript Library.

Sometimes you need that little extra spark to go down a new pathway or face the unknown. When you're grasping for that push, do it for context.

Let's get a surface-level view of edge functions: what they are, what they're good for, and how you can get started with them

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