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Brett Uglow

Burn the Barrel!

Barrel files are not your friend

4 min readMar 6, 2023

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Brett Uglow

Vitest is not ready to replace Jest (and may never be)

I recently had an opportunity to try to improve the build-times for some client software. After reviewing the claims for why Vitest was…

2 min readJan 2, 2023

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Turtle

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DigIO Australia

Easy Lambda Optimization

What memory setting should be used when deploying a Lambda — 128MB? 1024MB? How do we know that the chosen setting is the “best” setting?

6 min readJun 2, 2022

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Easy Lambda Optimization

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Brett Uglow

The Mystery of the Hanging ’Peg

I love a good software mystery! Who broke the system? Was it an innocuous software update? New hardware? Or was it a random cosmic-ray…

6 min readFeb 14, 2022

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Peg and string

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DigIO Australia

A scalable naming convention for style-variables

Naming things well is one of the hard problems in computer science. I would argue it is even harder in the world of visual design. The…

6 min readSep 13, 2021

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A scalable naming convention for style-variables

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DigIO Australia

Migrating an NPM package to use ES Modules

This article follows on from Migrating to GitHub Actions.

6 min readJul 25, 2021

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Migrating an NPM package to use ES Modules

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DigIO Australia

Migrating to GitHub Actions

GitHub Actions (GHA) is awesome, free, and very easy to get working. I’m going to work you through how to convert a GitHub repo

10 min readJul 13, 2021

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Red pipes

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Brett Uglow

“Hey world — let me get my data!”

My name is Brett Uglow. I’m a software engineer… and a bot-writer. But I don’t want to be a bot-writer. I just want my data.

5 min readJun 20, 2021

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“Hey world — let me get my data!”

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Brett Uglow
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DigIO Australia

Building Commercial CMS-backed websites

Comparing 3 different approaches

9 min readJan 17, 2021

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Building Commercial CMS-backed websites

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Brett Uglow

Enforcing the Arrow of Dependency

Back at YOW Conference in 2018, I had the pleasure of listening to Neal Ford from ThoughtWorks, talking about Evolutionary Architecture…

2 min readJun 18, 2020

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Enforcing the Arrow of Dependency

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Brett Uglow

Brett Uglow

Life = Faith + Family + Others + Work + Fun, Work = Software engineering + UX + teamwork + learning, Fun = travelling + hiking + games + …

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