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An introduction to service workers Put simply a service worker is a script that runs in the browser. They can intercept network traffic, send push notifications and perform background syncs. If that was a bit of a blur don’t worry, we’ll take a step back and take a look at each in...

Recognising the advantages and disadvantages of async/await requires an understanding of callbacks and promises. Before we review these lets first remind ourselves of the problem they solve: Asynchrony. Javascript is a blocking, synchronous single threaded language. This essentially means it can only perform one...

In todays blog post I would like to take the opportunity to share some knowledge I have gained with vim. In particular with customising vim to make it more user friendly. Out of the box the default configuration wraps long lines across multiple lines and line numbers aren't shown. Resolving these two things...