Joanna Walker

TIL: You Can See the Path in Finder

One of many annoyances on a Mac for me has been navigating around folders quickly. Especially going up the folder tree - I was used to just clicking on the folder name and getting the full path. Not so much in Finder :( Turns out while clicking on the folder name

Time For Change

It’s been six weeks to the day since the Automattic layoffs, so it seems fitting to finally gather my thoughts about it. I haven’t blogged publicly for quite a while, not counting the odd code snippet post. But in the last few months I’ve been itching more

Typescript vs English

I kept struggling to remember what the type predicate was in Typescript... turns out I just didn't really know what a 'predicate' is in the first place... shakes fist darn you grammar!

Create an Origami Penguin in 6 Steps

Last Saturday I went to London to see the Tokyo Day exhibition. One of the several available attractions was origami, and considering it was one of the few things you did not need to sign up in advance for I decided to have a go at it. I must say

Cross Subdomain Authentication with FeathersJS Client

FeathersJS v4 switched from storing the jwt token in a cookie to localStorage. This was fine when the app stayed on one domain, but when splitting things out into several apps on different subdomains I realised unlike cookies localStorage does not play nicely. I found the Customization option in the

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