In the wake of recent Twitter staff layoffs, we explore why taking the path of code simplicity is vital for tech industry productivity. With all the furore around the Twitter layoffs — including rumours that the “Chief Twit” himself Elon Musk has laid off technologists ba...

Today we are going to be walking through setting up a NextJS project with protected routes using Firebase Authentication and TailwindCSS for styling. The full code for this can be found in this repository where you can clone the repository down or use some of the code as you pl...

Today I want to talk a little bit about useReducer and how it can be used as a fantastic way to manage complex state requirements without reaching for a library or peppering your codebase with multiple useState calls. In the following example, we are going to look at a users pr...

Today is going to be a quick look at some of the more popular array methods in JavaScript. Each example will use the same set of data, an array of pet objects with different types of animal, their breed and their name. So lets dive in. Array.prototype.map() .map() Creates a n...

We’ve all seen the dire BBC headlines, and the accompanying frightening stats. In May Tech Monitor suggested that job vacancies in the IT sector were up by 191%. There really is a problem in our industry but maybe employers and recruiters should look beyond the norm? Norfolk Dev...

Community Recommends: VSCode Extensions Recently, I reached out to our community on the NorDev Discord Server to get some recommendations on extensions for VSCode. I already had a few in mind but I figured there's no better place to get some solid opions so here are the communi...

What a conference! We're grateful to the sponsors & speakers. They make the conference possible and our thanks to all who attended for making it a welcoming, engaging, and rewarding event… As you might expect, organising a conference the same year as we emerge from restrictions...

All conference speakers, regardless of, well anything really, share one thing in common. They all had to deliver their first talk. The first time they stood up in front of a group of people and imparted something. I cannot be more specific, because each and every one of those ex...

Keynote speaker and specialist in work-place innovation and optimisation, Rokker People’s Jim Marshall, spent some time talking to us about the future of work – providing us with real-world solutions rather than just abstractions. The nuts & bolts Having worked with the tech s...

Senior software engineer and video game modder and archivist, Codie Stella knows a thing or two about raising the dead. No, we’re not discussing ghouls 👻, Codie Stella is a game resurrectionist. Passion for programming Codie Stella started making addons for Garry’s Mod in the...