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Visualize your commits in realtime with Ably and GitHub webhooks

Have you ever wanted to see the work of your entire engineering organization in a visualization as it happens? In this article, I’ll tell you how I used Github webhooks and Netlify serverless functions, along with a simple Svelte web app, to do just this in my new interactive visualizer…

Java Script

7 min read

Visualize your commits in realtime with Ably and GitHub webhooks
Visualize your commits in realtime with Ably and GitHub webhooks
Java Script

7 min read


Mar 3, 2022

Leader election in the browser with Ably

There is an entire category of problems in distributed computing that require a single client amongst a set of peers in a network to coordinate the behavior of all the other clients. It is common in systems responsible for processing queues of work that connect to downstream systems that don’t…

Java Script

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Leader election in the browser with Ably
Leader election in the browser with Ably
Java Script

8 min read


Published in JavaScript in Plain English

·Jul 16, 2021

Build Your Own Live Chat Web Component with Ably and AWS

Web Components are a great way to build reusable functionality you can use in different web pages and web apps. Imagine sharing components between different frameworks like React, Vue.js, or Next.js! …

Java Script

17 min read

Build Your Own Live Chat Web Component with Ably and AWS
Build Your Own Live Chat Web Component with Ably and AWS
Java Script

17 min read


Published in JavaScript in Plain English

·Mar 5, 2021

Create a Realtime Chat Application with Next.js, Vercel and Ably

Build your very own chat application with React — This post will teach you the following: Create a brand new Next.js application Adding realtime functionality with Ably Create a Next.js Vercel Serverless API Use React Functional components and React Hooks with Ably Host your app on Vercel Check out a running version of the app. WebSockets in Vercel with Ably Vercel allows users to…

Serverless

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Create a Realtime Chat Application with Next.js, Vercel and Ably
Create a Realtime Chat Application with Next.js, Vercel and Ably
Serverless

12 min read


Published in Microsoft Azure

·Dec 16, 2020

Making a wearable live caption display using Azure Cognitive Services and Ably Realtime

How I helped my mother, who is hard of hearing, to understand me while I visit her with my mask on — Live captioning of speech into text has so many useful applications and Azure Cognitive Services makes it fast and easy to build captioning into your applications. Used together with Ably Realtime, it is possible to make wearable devices which can display what you’re saying, in real time. Wearable live captions!

Azure Cognitive Service

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Making a wearable live caption display using Azure Cognitive Services and Ably Realtime
Making a wearable live caption display using Azure Cognitive Services and Ably Realtime
Azure Cognitive Service

14 min read


Nov 25, 2020

Warhol-ification — A tutorial on creating a Warhol-like screen print effect with Photoshop

A walk through of how to turn a photograph of yourself into an Andy Warhol style graphic, like the one below. Disclaimer: there are many different techniques for Photoshop. This tutorial describes the TOS unused for this piece, you may know different techniques and that is great. …

Photoshop

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Warhol-ification — A tutorial on creating a Warhol-like screen print effect with Photoshop
Warhol-ification — A tutorial on creating a Warhol-like screen print effect with Photoshop
Photoshop

10 min read


Sep 11, 2020

Build an online multiplayer game using peer-to-peer and realtime messaging

Coping with quarantine by coding! — It is September 2020 and we’re still mid pandemic, which means I’m social distancing and missing my friends. At the start of lockdown I played a lot of online multiplayer party games with friends to try and replace our regular board game hangouts. After consuming so many, I decided it…

Java Script

7 min read

Coping with quarantine by coding
Coping with quarantine by coding
Java Script

7 min read


Published in The Startup

·Jul 24, 2020

Building My First Game With Realtime Data — Tamago-Train!

The Station Manager game with Realtime Tube data I’ve been learning a lot recently about using realtime data streams and how and why one might use them in an app. In order to better understand the differences between realtime streaming data and REST APIs (which I’ve had more experience with)…

Java Script

8 min read

Building My First Game With Realtime Data — Tamago-Train!
Building My First Game With Realtime Data — Tamago-Train!
Java Script

8 min read


Published in The Startup

·May 27, 2020

Getting started with IoT Wearables and MQTT

How to make your own internet connected t-shirt with LEDs that respond to realtime data — As a developer advocate I get to make all kind of fun projects. I particularly like to make wearable technology, specifically, things with lots of lights on that can connect to the internet. Because I like to be sparkly! …

Io T

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Getting started with IoT Wearables and MQTT
Getting started with IoT Wearables and MQTT
Io T

10 min read


Nov 29, 2019

Have Yourself a Matrix LED Christmas

Making an interactive Christmas jumper — After my previous project, the tweet controlled wedding dress, I wanted to make another wearable using the lessons I learnt while making the dress. Since the festive season is now upon us, it seemed like a great opportunity to make an IoT Christmas jumper! Christmas jumpers often have a large…

Arduino

10 min read

Have Yourself a Matrix LED Christmas
Have Yourself a Matrix LED Christmas
Arduino

10 min read

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