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Building a typesafe multi-form action handler in Remix Series - Hooks, proxy and Dispatcher to the rescue

Building a typesafe multi-form action handler in Remix Series - Hooks, proxy and Dispatcher to the rescue

In this series, I build a small Todo application. To begin, I use a combination of Remix, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, and React. It'll be functional but fragile to change. To address the fragility, I introduce and use Remix Validated Form, a React form library, Zod, a TypeScript-first schema

Welcome to Negar

Welcome to Negar

A super big warm welcome to Negar Abbasi who has joined MakerX as a Junior Developer. Our CEO, Matt Davies had this to say: We're excited for the opportunity to welcome talented people to MakerX who are getting started with new careers and have extremely bright futures ahead

Building a typesafe multi-form action handler in Remix Series - Remix validated form and Zod

Building a typesafe multi-form action handler in Remix Series - Remix validated form and Zod

In this series, I build a small Todo application. To begin, I use a combination of Remix, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, and React. It'll be functional but fragile to change. To address the fragility, I introduce and use Remix Validated Form, a React form library, Zod, a TypeScript-first schema

Building a typesafe multi-form action handler in Remix Series - The problem

Building a typesafe multi-form action handler in Remix Series - The problem

In this series, I build a small Todo application. To begin, I use a combination of Remix, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, and React. It'll be functional but fragile to change. To address the fragility, I introduce and use Remix Validated Form, a React form library, Zod, a TypeScript-first schema

Welcome to Inaie

Welcome to Inaie

We've recently celebrated Inaie Ignacio joining the MakerX team! Inaie is a Lead Engineer based over in Perth. Our CTO Rob had this to say: I'm excited to have Inaie join us. Not only is Inaie an awesome software engineer, but she has a lot of

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LLMs and How They'll Play a Big Part in the Startup Game

2023 has been a transformative year for artificial intelligence (AI), impacting all industries and sectors. One only needs to look at the incredible strides made by ChatGPT in recent months to understand how AI is revolutionising how we work and use these Large Language Models (LLMs). It's effectively

Leveraging GitHub Actions Environment Secrets and Variables in Your Deployment Workflows

Leveraging GitHub Actions Environment Secrets and Variables in Your Deployment Workflows

GitHub Actions Environments are powerful in managing deployment workflows, but their documentation doesn't always provide clear guidance on handling secrets and variables. In this summary blog post, we discuss the various ways to leverage Environment secrets and variables, discussing their benefits and limitations in different scenarios. Summary of

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Scanning uploaded files in S3 Buckets for malware

Working on a recent project, we looked at various ways to ensure that our system was as secure as possible. It's great that today, we can easily use cloud storage services like AWS S3, Azure Storage Accounts and Google Cloud Storage without having to worry about managing all

Welcome to Dan Healy!

Welcome to Dan Healy!

Last week we welcomed Dan Healy to MakerX as our Chief Financial Officer! This is an important step for us as we continue to focus on sustainable growth. Dan is an exceptional financial leader with a proven track record of success across multiple businesses. We are over the moon that

Welcome to Aly!

Welcome to Aly!

Today we excitedly welcome Aly on board as a Lead Designer at MakerX. She joins us from sunny Brisbane.

Welcome to Dario!

Welcome to Dario!

This week we are welcoming Dario Mratovich, joining our MakerX team in Perth as a Principal Engineer. Rob and myself are lucky enough to have worked with Dario in the past and can't speak highly enough of the professionalism and brilliance he brings to clients building software products.

Welcome to Neil!

Welcome to Neil!

We're thrilled this week to welcome Neil Campbell, joining our MakerX team in Perth as a Principal Engineer. Neil has a long background in building quality software, in recent years as an independent consultant. Neil is a lifelong tinkerer - software, electronics, wood work, metal work, house renovations,

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Resizing User-Provided Images in the Browser

Many web sites allow users to upload images for later display, for example a company logo or a profile photo. To enable this functionality while also making it easy to use and protecting other uses there are some issues that need to be solved: * What if a very large image

Welcome to Goodo!

Welcome to Goodo!

I could not be more excited this week to welcome Rachael Goodenough (Goodo) to MakerX as our Head of People & Culture. We've had so many amazing new starters at MakerX in a relatively short period of time, going from 1 to 25 permanent staff in just under

You might not be using typeof as much as you could

You might not be using typeof as much as you could

Here I show a handy little trick using the typeof operator in TypeScript to reduce the number of concrete types one might have to create

Fight the focus loss, inspect elements that like to disappear

Fight the focus loss, inspect elements that like to disappear

Here I explain and demonstrate a not so well known feature of Chromium-based browsers that can be used to help inspect elements that disappear on focus loss.

Welcome to Daniel

Welcome to Daniel

I'm excited to welcome Daniel McGregor to the MakerX team this week. Daniel joins us as a Lead Engineer based in Dunsborough, Australia. While I only met Daniel recently, I have been impressed with his knowledge and humility. Daniel was introduced to me by a mutual colleague who

Welcome to Mickaël

Welcome to Mickaël

I'm excited to welcome Mickaël Derriey to the MakerX team this week. Mickaël joins us as a Lead Engineer based in Luxembourg. I've known and worked with Mickaël for many years and have always appreciated how calm and well measured he is, while being a phenominally

Welcome to Stafford!

Welcome to Stafford!

I'm thrilled to welcome Stafford Williams to our growing MakerX team. Stafford joins us as a Lead Engineer from Sydney, Australia.

Build a type-safe event emitter in Node.js using TypeScript

Build a type-safe event emitter in Node.js using TypeScript

How to build a type-safe event emitter in Node.js using TypeScript

VentureCrowd partners with MakerX to further democratise investment with WealthTech platform, Vest

VentureCrowd partners with MakerX to further democratise investment with WealthTech platform, Vest

MEDIA RELEASE 20 October 2022 Sydney, Australia - Australia’s leading digital investment platform for alternative assets, VentureCrowd, today announced a partnership with venture-focused digital product development firm MakerX to build Vest, a world-first, blockchain-based wealth technology (WealthTech) platform where syndicate communities can view hyper niche deal flow, invest in

User experience design (UX) for Web 3

User experience design (UX) for Web 3

Here I explain how web 3 is different to web 2 (with as little jargon as I can), show examples of poor user experiences, explain why we should not be saying it’s ‘user error’ when people get in trouble, and give some practical advice on how to design good user experiences for web 3.

Meta-programming magic with Type Script and JavaScript Object Proxies

Meta-programming magic with Type Script and JavaScript Object Proxies

Way back in 2015, ECMAScript 2015 (ES6) introduced amongst a host of other new features, Object Proxies [https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Proxy/Proxy] . An Object Proxy allows you to take an JavaScript object, and wrap it in a proxy type which allows you

Introduction to @makerx/cloudwatch-error-alarms

Introduction to @makerx/cloudwatch-error-alarms

Introduction to @makerx/cloudwatch-error-alarms, an NPM package to send alerts to Slack on AWS Cloudwatch errors