Hey, I went a whole year without blogging! I guess the streak is officially over. The lack of content here has weighed on me heavily considering how integral this blog has been to my career. Really, it was my true portfolio. It demonstrated much more than the glossy screenshots on other pages ever did. And now […]
Hi there! Do you need an experienced front-end dev person who can also consult, design, and figure out back-end integration with minimal Slack gifs? Well good news! I have a surplus of time in September and I can build (almost) anything. You can contact me to discuss projects, requirements, costs, the weather.
This website – dbushell.com – or dbushell.app if you like redirects – is now a progressive web app! What does that mean? Don’t let the fancy initialism deceive you. PWAs are websites first and foremost. But they can be installed like an app. What is meant by “app” depends on where it’s installed. As of writing […]
Internationalisation, i18n, localisation – whatever you prefer – can be tricky if your code does not support the ability to translate user interface text. When writing React it’s easy to hard-code UI text right into the JavaScript. This is not good if your website or app needs to support multiple languages. Even if you only support […]
I’ve started a new Code Snippets collection on CodePen. It will be populated with the little and sometimes peculiar CSS techniques I’ve used. Mostly CSS but with occasional JavaScript sprinkles. Progressively enhanced, of course. Stuff like this styled range input: See the Pen Styled input range (slider/progress) by David Bushell (@dbushell) on CodePen. Who would have […]
In 2018 I’ll be celebrating 10 years as a professional. I graduated in 2008. I hopped on a train to London and spent five years with two agencies. In 2013 I dusted off my return ticket and headed back up North. I’ve been freelancing ever since. My first office was the window end of my parent’s […]
A few weeks ago I was digging through storage and I found an original Raspberry Pi. When I’d bought it years ago interest was lost rather quickly. I wasn’t as comfortable with a Unix command line as I am today. The Raspberry Pi / Arduino / single-board computer ecosystem has exploded since then. Maybe I can […]