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Too often I encounter a website that either isn't clear, isn't helpful, or isn't working properly. Occasionally I get frustrated enough to try to understand why.

Reel Cinema have a reasonably good website, but for a few quite important problems.

One of the biggest challenges of software development is doing things at scale. A simple website with few pages can be built from scratch and be online in a few hours. A website that serves hundreds of thousands of pages to millions of visitors every day is a much more complicated challenge.

This is a story I wrote several years ago about some work I did on GOV.UK. It's about architecture, technical debt and planning ahead. It's also about some very specific JavaScript problems that I had to solve.

More often than I'd like I encounter a bit of the internet that either isn't clear, isn't useful, or isn't working properly. Occasionally I get frustrated enough to write about it. This week: the Boots.com login page.

This one isn't entirely the fault of Boots. But it raises some interesting questions about how websites are maintained over time.

JavaScript frameworks are the subject of much debate in the frontend community. Are they good? Are they bad? Should we use them?

I keep having this conversation and I've stopped enjoying it so I'm just going to write down what I think.

I built a couple of random tools a while back and forgot to talk about them. So here's some words.

In which I nearly write bad Javascript, buy some games and make a small difference to humanity.