I'm hiring for a few roles! See https://codeyourfuture.io/jobs/ for details. Hiring for:

* People to help teach software engineering in London and Manchester
* A technical interview coach (UK remote)
* Community builders in London and Manchester

Part-time, helping great people, doing good in the world.

Okay, this is quite a banger feature for web perf engineers. In Chrome Canary, you can now turn on an experimental feature to throttle single requests or requests to a single domain!

chrome://flags/#devtools-individual-request-throttling

This feature is golden to figure out if a delayed or heavy resource has a noticeable performance impact. 👏

Our friends from Debugbear share some details:

https://www.debugbear.com/blog/chrome-devtools-throttle-individual-request

Ever wondered why otel is so painful on the frontend and how we could make things better?

Wonder no more! I had a lot of fun writing this article and venting a bit, but it wouldn’t be an article of mine if I didn’t share how the community is stepping up and how we can be a part of the change ❤️

https://thenewstack.io/setting-up-opentelemetry-on-the-frontend-because-i-hate-myself/

I'm thrilled and slightly terrified to say that I'll be giving a talk at LDX3 (the artist formerly known as Lead Dev London) in June!

I'll be drawing on my experience teaching with Code Your Future to give an introduction to the science of learning and how I've applied these lessons in my day-to-day engineering work.

I imagine a lot of interested folks already have tickets but they've given me a discount code: ALASDAIR15.

(The stage has ~1000 capacity, please be kind! 😬)