Barry Frost
Hello, I’m Barry (he/him), a software engineer and technology leader with experience building teams, websites and apps. I live in a village in Hertfordshire, UK, with my wife and two sons.
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Matt was kind enough to spend a couple of hours with me this afternoon over video, quickly understanding our pain points and giving me plenty of ideas and insights. If you’re looking for someone to...
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Easter chick brings the good stuff
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📢 I’m excited to share that I’m one of the speakers at this month’s #CTOCraftCon. I’ll be virtually joining some seriously amazing CTOs talking about Delivery. Details and tickets at...
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I really like the Life Happens page in the IndieWeb wiki that Ana highlights. Such a great message to acknowledge that other things happen in people’s lives that can prevent them participating in a...
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Micropublish now supports the proposed Micropub extension for Channels. If your server’s endpoint responds to ?q=channel, or your config has a channel property, you can use the new field.
While my...
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Micropublish: IndieAuth updates and supported properties feature
Yesterday I pushed a new release of Micropublish to include recent updates for clients to the IndieAuth specification, as...Categories
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My Christmas tree decoration #christmastree #bahhumbug
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Six years after I tried it and initially questioned the pricing, I guess Slack knew what they were doing. Not bad for a spin-off from a MMORPG....
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I’ve been using @tailwindcss for a few weeks and surprised myself by how much it clicked. Like many, I thought it was blasphemy, but building with it is fast and addictive. Happy to see dark-mode...
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I love the new Raspberry Pi 400 😍. Major nostalgia for my beloved Acorn Electron and other keyboard-computer micros from the...
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Micropublish v2.3.0
I’ve pushed a biggish update to Micropublish to bring it to v2.3.0. It includes some of the stable and experimental Micropub...Categories
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Source control in the 1980s using a pink dinosaur, part of Paul Fellows’ tales of Acornsoft, Arthur and RISC OS:
We had 7 or 8 guys trying to write an operating system to go into a ROM, so you’ve got...
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Some code I’ve contributed to open-source projects is now being stored in vaults in the Arctic, thanks to GitHub’s Archive Programme. Very cool (excuse the pun).
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Ready to listen along to one of my favourite ever albums, Olympian by Gene #timstwitterlisteningparty
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This weekend’s IndieWebCamp in London has sensibly been switched to online-only because of the current health concerns.
A big well done to the organisers, Cheuk, Calum and Ana, for their initial...
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I went to @GrowableMeetups’ Serverless talks at @CazooUK this week. I find real-world examples much more compelling than theory, and @bob_the_mighty’s and Scott’s stories of rapid scalability and what...
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Tried Apple Pay’s Express Mode on the Tube this morning and it worked beautifully. Lightning fast and no risk to barrier etiquette. FYI set up your “Express Travel Card” in your Wallet...
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First language: BBC BASIC
Had difficulties: Assembly
Most used: CFML (ColdFusion) and JavaScript
Totally hate: ASP/VBScript
Loved: HTML forever!
For beginners: Ruby
via...
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Highly recommended: Stewart Lee’s Sharknado / Alan Bennett routine. Even better when the stage props fail.
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New wallpaper: the global #ShowYourStripes climate crisis graphic to remind me every time I pick up my phone.