David Mytton

From UK 27 Posts

First run experiences for developer tools

A bad first run experience is likely to be indicative of the overall quality of the application. What first run experience do developers expect?

Status update - 2021-09

Console status update - September 2021: advertise page, website improvements and subscriber growth.

App packaging - another thing developers must care about

Developers must own their packages - Debian, Ubuntu, Red Hat, Alpine, Arch AUR, Homebrew, Nix, Flatpak, Snap - otherwise someone else will, and that is not a good situation.

On removing APIs - Linux status bar, GNOME system tray and ElementaryOS AppIndicators

Removed GNOME status icons? Where are the ElementaryOS status app indicators? Removing APIs without common alternatives may be a bad idea.

Console Newsletter - A free weekly email digest of the best tools and beta releases for developers. Every Thursday. See the latest email.

Status update - 2021-08

Console status update - August 2021: some time off.

Automated website performance testing with GitHub Actions, k6 and Cloudflare Workers

Speed is a key feature of all the best developer tools so the Console website needs to be fast. How we use k6 inside GitHub Actions to run performance tests on every commit.

Google owns email, just like search

Running a fast growing newsletter for the last 6 months has revealed that Googlebot is not just about the web.

Status update - 2021-07

Console status update - July 2021: podcast and category reviews.

Status update - 2021-06

Console status update - June 2021: Mars research article, website tools directory, podcast, moving office and commercial experiments.

Apple's Mail Privacy Protection is a necessary step that helps small publishers

Click rate is the way to measure engagement because it aligns the incentives of the reader (they want to check out something interesting) with the sender (provide interesting content). You get privacy as part of that.