From mid-April I'll be back on the market looking for work.
- 25+ years professional experience.
- .NET since the start, Node 3+ years.
- See mikehadlow.com/top/about/ for details.
- Contract or perm. Slight preference for contract.
- Must be remote. (I'm UK based).
At the House of Commons on Thursday evening for the Open UK awards. @universalviewer.io got runner up in the Community Category. An amazing experience and lovely to meet the other nominees.
Opus 4.5 is definitely very good, but it still needs me for lateral thinking, taste, general product vision etc. It's liberating to be able to (finally) concentrate more on these aspects myself.
Google Antigravity is nice - but it needs Opus 4.5 and for it to be able to drive the browser too. Being able to read browser logs on the fly is a definite killer feature over vscode.
Claude Opus 4.5 is *super* good. Had Gemini 3 trying to fix something and it was tying itself in recursive knots. Opus nailed it in one go.
Recognising the Power of Community Collaboration, the @universalviewer.io project (universalviewer.io) is shortlisted in the 6th Annual OpenUK Awards Community category sponsored by @Arm, taking place on 4th December at the House of Commons, thanks to Dame Chi Onwurah for hosting. #openukawards
The weird thing is, computers are now getting more like humans. Like, you can be unspecific with them and they'll still understand your intent. And they're essentially tireless and endlessly supportive.
You could interpret that book title as how to deal with the emotional shortcomings of humans 😄
Have been trying out GPT-5-Codex for the last couple of weeks. Started getting frustrated with how slow it is, so switched back to Claude Sonnet 4.5. Noticed an immediate improvement in speed, but also more "You're absolutely rights".
Thinking time seems to be the fundamental trade-off.
I'm going to be presenting "PayloadCMS: A Practical Case Study" at the next Brighton Web Development meetup. If you're curious about @payload.dev and want an introduction with lots of code examples, this is for you :-)
www.meetup.com/brighton-web...
Happy birthday! 🎂
JSX is the new HTML, react is the new JavaScript.
Or creative technologists into product designers.
I think one-person agencies can now provide a full service for clients (will talk about this in my upcoming Brighton Web Developers meetup presentation)
Marketplace is a very strong incentive to stay on Facebook. We've bought and sold quite a lot of stuff on there.
Numberblocks by the BBC is worth the license fee on its own. My 3 year old boy gets two episodes a day max and is obsessed with numbers. He's already starting to get an intuition for multiplication.
I think the branding is a bit of a turn-off for many though. Feels a bit "virusy"
wow...
any alternatives in mind?
Happening later today 👇
#GLAM #GLAM3D #Interoperability #Digitisation #3D
I'm working on a project that uses this at the moment: visgl.github.io/react-maplib...
Yeah, it's great for SVG work. I've created whole clickable prototypes in Figma. They just acquired @payload.dev which I've been using for a while now too, so I anticipate some interesting developments there.
I've just gotten support added for starting a session & loading Google Maps map tiles with NASA-AMMOS/3DTilesRendererJS -- now you'll be able to load Google maps street & satellite data in three.js. Now I have to find time to make demos 😅
🗺️🛰️✨
#threejs #webgl #maps #3dtiles
SVG icon manipulation was what got me using Figma in the first place. Funny that it's also a gateway to using code generation. Once you get comfortable using code generation, you realise you don't actually care about writing tailwind classes etc manually any more.
I've been doing a lot of SVG maps stuff recently. It's really compatible with Figma and "vibe coding". As a dev you feel no guilt using an LLM to generate it as you can't read it anyway. Have tweaked many icons that way.
Woah - Figma just acquired Payload?!
Interesting move to acquire a CMS - seem like part of their Figma to AI + Code strategy?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wvo...
yeah, built on a swamp innit. hay fever?
We’ve expanded our extensive range of primary source collections that can be explored via the Universal Viewer!
You can find more information regarding the benefits of the Universal Viewer, as well as a list of the fascinating collections that we have recently migrated to it, at buff.ly/Ca7Id09
We’re halfway through our latest community sprint!
Our community team have been hard at work – check out our community board to see what they’ve been building, including a new tool to add and view custom configs github.com/orgs/Univers...
The kids' garden is getting there. Willow structures are growing nicely 😊
