Can AI replace all software engineers? 🔗
One of the recurring questions when it comes to the impact of AI on software engineering is: are you going to lose your job? Is there a future in soft [...]
Rhys Mills | Full Stack Developer
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Making Typerighter work harder 🔗
How we built a realtime spellchecker for The Guardian’s digital content management system, Composer (from The Guardian’s engineering blog). [...]
‘a11y’ isn’t accessible 🔗
Accessibility enthusiasts have a strange habit of referring to accessibility as ‘a11y’. Why is this a bad idea? And what can we learn from it? Accessi [...]
How to make screen recordings with internal device audio on a Mac 🔗
I do development work for my job on a Mac. I care about accessibility, and make occasional PRs related to screenreader support - especially for VoiceO [...]
Running an ongoing process to watch logs in an EC2 instance 🔗
After an incident shut down an existing FTP image server at my company, we had to set a new one up at short notice. As part of this, we needed to move [...]
Eyegaze Browser: browse the internet with your eyes 🔗
As I’ve previously written: Hack Days are a much-loved occasion at The Guardian. Over the course of two-ish days, developers work on a passion project [...]
How to set a default PR template for a GitHub organisation 🔗
I was wondering how a default PR template could be set for a GitHub organisation, but I found it a little difficult to find official documentation on [...]
Installing Kali on a Raspberry Pi 🔗
Back in late 2020 I got a 8GB Raspberry Pi. As you may be aware, the Pi is an affordable microcomputer aimed at hobbyists. I got the more powerful mod [...]
Switching careers into programming 🔗
I’m currently 7 months into my career as a software developer. Before my current job I worked in marketing for 4 or so years. I have a degree in Eng [...]
Audio Graphs 🔗
Hack Days are a much-loved occasion at The Guardian. Over the course of two-ish days, developers work on a passion project of their choice, conforming [...]