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  1. Chromedriver/Chrome 80 cookie domain bug

    Chrome 80 introduced tighter control around trusting TLS certificates, which unearthed an interesting bug for one of our projects running on CI.

    Dan Barber
    March 24, 2020
    • Chrome
    • ChromeDriver
    • Capybara
    • Cookie
    • Domain
    • SSL
    • TLS
    • CircleCI
    • CI
  2. Chess and Recursion: Part 1

    It turns out solving chess moves with recursion and pattern matching is a lot of fun!

    Dan Barber
    August 10, 2018
    • Code
    • Good Code
    • Elixir
    • Phoenix
    • Recursion
  3. The Complete Guide to Optimising Web Images

    Optimising images for your website can be a bit of a black art, but it’s well worth doing as the bandwidth savings can be large. It will also make a big difference to the speed at which your site loads.

    Dan Barber
    August 10, 2016
    • Web
    • Design
    • Images
  4. Building a Ping Pong Scoreboard

    How we built a scoreboard for our ping pong table as a hack day project.

    Dan Barber
    March 1, 2016
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