Luke Cartwright articles - 21 total
Instagram AI policy
Instagram is updating it's privacy policy to give you the right to not have your data used to train...
Planet scale DB alternative
Do you have a Postgres DB on Planetscale that you need to transfer over? Well, I transferred over to...
Planet scale is removing free tier!
Like many I have watched Planet scale grow to become a great resource! Their YouTube channel is a...
Sending Emails using Node
Why would you want to send emails via code? I was recently working on a project where...
The React documentation has been revamped!
It's been a long time coming. The old site reactjs.org now redirects to legacy.reactjs.org/docs/...
Cheap way to host a Javascript project. (e.g. Node APIs & React Apps)
With the announcement of the removal of the free tier on Heroku, I, like many others was scrambling...
Rotate your Circle CI keys now.
This morning many developers recieved an email informing them that circle CI had been breached...
Heroku is removing the free tier
If you are anything like me, you have a few small projects that you are hosting on Heroku. Read on to...
Do you want some FREE illustrations or vectors for your hero image?
Here's some great FREE sites to get you started... Illustrations 👨🎨 1...
Software and the chicken and the egg problem
I have an idea for a SAAS business. But so does everyone. Its about execution that counts. But...
Developers, you NEED a designer.
When developing websites and software, developers can sometimes focus on the technicalities of it too...
Did you know you can view chrome devtool for a mobile site?
Chrome devtools is a great resource for web developers. With devtool, developers can view console...
Are you struggling to sign into Heroku? Here's why.
Recently Heroku stopped the integration with GitHub due to a vulnerability. See my article on this...
How do you explain your job to someone who is not technical?
So you work as a software engineer. You work with Node or Javascript or Python or Java or even Swift....
How to make your website work offline
So you've build your website. Whether that is a React app, a Vue app or a good old HTML site, well...
Are you exposing secrets in your react app?
When creating a react project you may have some variables you wouldn't want to expose and commit to...
Heroku's GitHub integration has been stopped due to attack. Are you affected?
This morning heroku blocked all github integrations 'until further notice' (see the note here). This...
How to deploy a node.js app to digital ocean using Docker
In this article I'm going to assume you have a working Node js app locally. In a terminal you type in...
PWA Summit 2021
PWAs are picking up steam and to learn more about the recent advances I'd recommend the PWA summit...
Learning about PWAs? You HAVE to play this game.
You read that right. A game. It's found here: https://serviceworkies.com/ The developers (Google...
I went to the day 1 of the virtual Google IO 2021. What did I learn?
I have never been to a Google IO event in person but wow! What a start to the conference! The first...