Category: Tech

Whilst pairing has been a fairly consistent part of my years as a software developer, Cogent was where I first started remote pairing. I’ve found the remote aspect of the experience amplifies certain challenges so in this post, I share some of the lessons I’ve learnt.

Micro frontends are an architectural pattern that has become a hot topic in recent years for many good reasons. It has helped organisations break complex UI applications into smaller, more manageable pieces, as well as enabling teams to work end-to-end across a well-defined product or business domain whilst maintaining a consistent user experience across the entire app.

It’s worth understanding normal CSS flow, what it’s good for, and why it makes it so hard to centre things vertically. In order to do that though, there are three main concepts that we need to understand – block elements, inline elements, and line boxes.

Felienne Hermans recently gave a marvellous talk which relieved one of my lingering insecurities almost immediately – she told me that it was OK to spend time reading code, and that it was in fact a necessary precursor to being able to write code effectively.

I’ve recently joined Cogent as a Lead Developer and before that, I worked on Data related systems as a Data Engineer and as an Architect. I’d like to bring some of the knowledge and experience from these domains to the Cogent community and so I thought that cross posting this article (that also appears on my personal blog), would be a good way to start.