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Alan Lavender
@lavenderlens.bsky.social
✍ author
⚛️trainer: JS/React/Java/Python
💟#WorldwideWalkingWounded
🎬photographer/filmmaker
🎹musician
🚹he/him
🙏🏻Jer29:1
https://qoto.org/@lavenderlens
IE☘️/ UK🇬🇧 https://frontendcookbook.com
Like another commenter, I thought this had already happened in ‘22.
September 12, 2025 at 2:21 AM
This is nothing short of heinous. It’s browser wars all over again.
July 25, 2025 at 4:12 PM
My mate singer/songwriter Paul Archer has a new web site and new album out soon. He’s one to watch. 🙄🎸
paularcherofficial.com
July 22, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Artwork from some of the rising stars at Belfast art school degree show ‘25.
June 9, 2025 at 11:37 PM
In M&S Derry post cyber attack. Looks like they have their own version of police tape for the block and collect booth.
June 8, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Having some fun with unstoppabledomains.com
ud.me/irelandthe.b... was 5 bucks **for life**
ud.me/alanlavender... was 2.
They are web 3.0 tokenisable onchain, and come with a default wallet, apparently. I really must get up to speed with the new kids.
support.unstoppabledomains.com/support/solu...
June 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Had a pleasant couple of days’ development as a gap in my schedule opened up. Very impressed with early indications of @nextjs.org. Routing made mad simple, SSG for SEO within a React app, Tailwind plumbed in, lazy loading as default, what’s not to like?⚛️🧑🏻‍💻💜
May 21, 2025 at 4:57 PM
This. Now we're expected to willingly hand over driver data which can then be hacked and sold to the highest bidder. Or not even hacked, just sold. Says it records just 150 miles but...
"You'll receive insights for every journey you make, alongside rolling 14-day and 365-day scores"🚗🧐
May 15, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Lovely. So every car insurance company now knows precise journey data for opt-in customers. I'll bet that's worth hacking and flogging to the highest bidder. Ah but "you could access score-powered discounts"... So we WANT it, right? 🚗🧐🕵️
May 15, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Maisie in the garage and Cujo wrapped up warm. Made me realise I hadn’t taken any pet pics for a while. Hope your job stress passes quickly.
May 10, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Sunset over Ballyness Bay.
April 10, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Very fortunate to catch a Q&A panel session at
#socialmediafest 2025 by @tweetinggoddess.bsky.social. My virtual ticket allows me to train #Python today, attend that session over a bowl of porridge at lunch, and catch up whenever I can on all the talks. Also frank open discussion in the comments. 😎☘️
April 9, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Update on #studioInAShed project. Moving in lights. Power connected. Thanks to the all-powerful *Seamus Doohan electrical, Falcarragh*. Yes you may have seen him on YouTube with one of his many other talented hats on.
January 26, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Glad to see all's well in Ireland with the impending #RedStormÉowyn. One of the resources #Airbnb shared in an email to hosts was An Garda Síochána's Facebook page. Top story on the eve of the storm? We get to wear baseball caps! Phew. So thankful for our guardians.
January 23, 2025 at 8:17 PM
4. Live acceptance test. Feel free to look yourselves, the app is at choros.ie.
5. Message the Whatsapp group back to notify of publishing.
January 11, 2025 at 12:45 PM
3. Deploy - this app gets deployed several times a month.
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January 11, 2025 at 12:41 PM
From alert on the choir Whatsapp group, to published site with updated songs for tonight's Mass, in 5 easy steps. Built with #React, #Vite, #Tailwind, and #axios. Hosted on #Netlify.
1. Songs on the Whatsapp.
2. Edit JSON and npm run build.
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January 11, 2025 at 12:37 PM
The time has come to use these:
December 31, 2024 at 8:55 PM
#Redux, #React, and #RTK shennanigans on the penultimate working day before the man in the red suit visits.

Mapping out any Redux-enabled app via component trees and pseudocode is, I find, essential.

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December 23, 2024 at 12:16 PM

🎄❄️☘️🙏🎄❄️☘️🙏
THOSE OF YOU FOR WHOM Christmas ain’t the kind of thing you see on a TV ad campaign (whenever is it?):
🎄❄️☘️🙏🎄❄️☘️🙏
Just try and breathe, live in the moment, leave your cares aside, worry never changed a thing: know you are loved. And I’ll see you on the other side in 2025.
🎄❄️☘️🙏🎄❄️☘️🙏
December 23, 2024 at 10:22 AM
Oh goodness. This thing just blew up and 10X'ed in complexity.
#React
#Redux
#RTK
#TypeScript
#NextJS
#serverComponents
December 12, 2024 at 5:37 PM
Well you could've fooled me. Specify the other dimension as "auto" when specifying width or height? And use "priority" attribute for an LCP element? New #CSS best practices.
December 12, 2024 at 5:30 PM
Yesterday’s haul: an excellent pair of ski/winter gloves from #LIDL:
German made, of course, impressive specs
November 23, 2024 at 11:47 AM
Update: it's bloody amazing when working on your own in a language or framework where you do not yet have mastery. But super annoying and everywhere and has to be uninstalled when I deliver training. For the record I slimmed down my #VSC extensions recently, here's them post-cull:
November 21, 2024 at 12:28 PM
Thanks Norah! Yes the Orcadian stones and forts are amazing. Here’s my own shot of some standing stones there, for client Allied Distillers. Excuse the long in the tooth legacy photo site🤣
www.alanlavender.com/editorial.ht...
November 21, 2024 at 10:38 AM