My last couple of blogs have been pretty heavy going – lots of jargon and definitely not the easiest pieces of text to read if you don’t have much background knowledge on web development. This time I decided this time to try something a little different – I will attempt to explain the 5 biggest […]

Authentication is required whenever you want to deliver a personal experience to a user or whenever you are dealing with sensitive data. Today, modern websites communicate using the old trusty HTTP protocol, which by design is stateless. By stateless, we mean that each request (I.E opening a new web page) is treated as a new, […]

Okay that title is a little bit of a mouth full, so lets crack out the Nerd Jargon Buster- NGINX – Free web server software which pairs really nicely with Linux web servers. Pretty similar to Apache, but seems to have more reverse proxy settings baked into it. Reverse Proxy – A proxy server is […]

What is React and Why Should We Use It? What is React and Why Should We Use It? React is a JavaScript Library which allows developers to build rapid fast user interfaces. Since its first initial release in 2013, React has joined the conversation as one of the most popular npm packages to hit the […]

What is Gatsby? Gatsby is a React based framework which utilises the powers of Webpack and GraphQL to bundle real React components into static HTML, CSS and JS files. Gatsby can be plugged into and used straight away with any data source you have available, whether that is your own API, Database or CMS backend […]

The year 2038 Problem is the Unix 32-bit time format causing an integer overflow due to running out of available binary digits and instead gets stored as a negative number – This causes the date 19th January 2038 to become the date 13th December 1901. Okay… phew. Now that’s over let’s look into this in […]