Dave Arrowsmith

Software dev 💻📱 • Frontend 🖍️✨ • Tutor 📚 • NB • 🏳️‍🌈

[Dave Arrowsmith @Dev_Arrowsmith]

I'm leaving the blue birb app, for the obvious reason. Au revoir! 🌊✨

[Dave Arrowsmith @Dev_Arrowsmith]

I've only been a dev for about a year but I keep coming across FE issues in iOS that make no sense. Animations that require a minus 3 second delay so that they don't end oddly abruptly. Safar browser handling transparency as a shade of black rather than true opacity. Janky stuff.

[Dave Arrowsmith @Dev_Arrowsmith]

such a boy 💖

[Dave Arrowsmith @Dev_Arrowsmith]

Delighted to say that I'm still loving my job. Genuinely excited about continuing projects. Best move ever etc. etc. 🧑‍💻💖

[Dave Arrowsmith @Dev_Arrowsmith]

Popped back on FB (first time in months) & instantly popped back off. It's an advertising nightmare. It is eating itself.

[Dave Arrowsmith @Dev_Arrowsmith]

There are other employers. There are other fields. It takes work to get out but the reward is being respected as a person, being paid fairly for your work, and work-life balance. Compared to the cost of unpaid labour (in cash, time and dignity) it's a no-brainer.

[Dave Arrowsmith @Dev_Arrowsmith]

Trending and worth repeating:
Don't do unpaid work. Especially for an employer who'll make money from your unpaid labour.

[Dave Arrowsmith @Dev_Arrowsmith]

I was the only person who refused to do it.

My colleagues felt this was unfair. And it was. But that wasn't my responsibility. I wasn't the entity exploiting them.

[Dave Arrowsmith @Dev_Arrowsmith]

On Monday, if you told me I'd be coming into the office voluntarily by the end of the week I would've laughed. Yet here I am again @__@"

[Dave Arrowsmith @Dev_Arrowsmith]

Fixed up my accelerometer demos:
🔵 Dot Demo: Lay your phone flat. Tilt to roll the marble across the surface.
⚖️ Tilt Demo: Hold your phone upright. Tilt to move the block.
📱✨Mobile, cross-OS, cross-browser
https://t.co/Ak9wYdK8nY

[Dave Arrowsmith @Dev_Arrowsmith]

My company got a co-working space in Manchester. Today's gona be my first day working in central MCR! 💖

[Dave Arrowsmith @Dev_Arrowsmith]

Even when doing development tasks that I've done 100 times before I'm occasionally surprised, shocked even, when stuff works

[Dave Arrowsmith @Dev_Arrowsmith]

The repo is a mess, sorry about it. It was a messy late night dive 😅

If you try this and it doesn't work plx let me know! 💖

[Dave Arrowsmith @Dev_Arrowsmith]

Messy demo of tilt controls in mobile browsers. Should work on mobile devices with accelerometers running Android or iOS, in Chrome, Safari, Edge & Firefox. iOS users will need to click the permissions button before it'll work:
https://t.co/9HrODeZAdJ

[Dave Arrowsmith @Dev_Arrowsmith]

Now, after hours of work, I can finally implement the tilt controls in iOS that took me ~15min to build in Android - although it'll have to be in a deployed repo rather than a succinct codepen 🫠

[Dave Arrowsmith @Dev_Arrowsmith]

Today I've been learning about iOS restrictions on browser access to mobile accelerometer data, eg. for tilt controls in browser-based games. Android works out of the box; iOS has a few tricksy hoops! 👇✨

[Dave Arrowsmith @Dev_Arrowsmith]

iOS 13 release notes specify the changes, see Security and Privacy: https://t.co/1cQaQT1JzM