David Mytton

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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.

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

Status update - 2021-06

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.

Console Culture: Considered discussion

There’s a reason why scientific peer-review and RFCs are important - ideas are improved through debate and disagreement!

Status update - 2021-05

Console status update - May 2021: Newsletter design, welcome email, hiring a technical writer.

Console Culture: Simplicity

Following the Unix philosophy, we should do only what is absolutely necessary, and do it well.

Console Culture: Transparency

Our first Culture blog post covered our Prime Directive: developer first. This blog post explains the second: transparency. Following the hacker ethic, at Console open access is the default.

Status update - 2021-04

Console status update - Apr 2021: Beta Console, developer interviews, and newsletter tweaks.

Console Culture: Developer first

Developer first means aiming to create a high-quality experience for developers as the Prime Directive for everything we do. It's one of our four cultural values.

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