In a Reddit conversation, I discovered something called trivial benefits. How did I miss this? Turns out, UK limited company directors can receive up to £300 a year in tax-free gifts from their company.
I have received a couple of strangely similar recruitment emails in a week, so I am documenting them here in case someone else Googles the wording.
If you’ve ever built a site with Astro and needed to deploy the exact same build to multiple target environments some at the root domain (/) and others in a subfolder (/docs/ or /my-app/). You know the frustration: broken assets.
When using GSAP SplitText with type: “lines”, there is one important thing to keep in mind: your lines can change when the viewport changes. You need to have a fix so when users resize the browser window it doesn’t look broken.
A quick one from a recent Astro project that deploys with Jenkins. Our deployment suddenly started taking much longer than expected and eventually timing out during the build. (set to 120 seconds timeout)
Freelance work has felt quieter lately. When it gets quiet, the idea is to pursue the next opportunities rather than sitting tight and doing nothing. With the current market, AI, and budgets, there are fewer interesting opportunities for experienced web developers than there were a couple of years ago.