Alex Crooks

I've often needed an easy way to measure an unmarked room from an estate agents floor plan, architects drawing, or measure the size of a garden. So of course I've built a free app to do all that in one place. measureplan.app

@skorpen.com any chance you could add Cloudflare email sending to saas prices? Also would love to see SMS sending comparisons to know if AWS is still cheapest

I'm always looking for off-peak weeks to book holidays when the kids are at school & there's no bank holidays. That's easy for UK calendars, but I wanted a quick way to consider the rest of the world. quiet.holiday

A nifty way to look through Google Fonts based on 𝒗𝒊𝒃𝒆𝒔 that I made: sweetfont.com

@wesbos.com what was the CloudApp/Zight alternative you found?

So @posthog.com now offer error tracking. Never felt great having 2 huge 3rd party dependancies for "just" product analytics (PH) and error tracking (Sentry), I will have to experiment with just using Posthog for both. Will Sentry ever offer product analytics @cra.mr?

Handy SaaS pricing comparison tool for auth, storage, DBs, images, emails etc saasprices.net

The cutest home server has arrived

This is fantastic for full stack dev. Permanently group all related files for a service instead of searching and re-opening them all every time you need to add something new front to back. https://twitter.com/anas_araid/status/1635255061088735232

This is great from @Cloudflare, I can finally ditch that big chromium Lambda layer that was only used for rendering PDFs! https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-workers-browser-rendering-api/

Cloudflare’s edge-by-default approach to all their services makes AWS and manual region juggling seem archaic at this point

Tip to always see the full URL when Chrome 85 hides everything except the root domain: chrome://flags/#omnibox-context-menu-show-full-urls. Don't forget to right click the address bar after relaunch to enable.

So surreal; Ride through downtown Philly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znMCGKdaV2I&feature=youtu.be

“app-making is nothing like building a house. It’s more like building the first house ever in the history of houses... The only reason anything ever ships is because people just keep working until it’s ready.” https://inessential.com/2019/10/28/no_etas

✍️ New post: Automated Lighthouse Performance Testing https://alexcrooks.me/recent/2019-10-18/automated-lighthouse-performance-testing

✍️ New post: @cloudflare Custom Domain S3 Caching With Edge Workers https://alexcrooks.me/recent/2019-10-09/cloudflare-custom-domain-s3-caching

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Built myself a new personal site as an excuse to try out the @sveltejs framework. Loving that final build size! https://alexcrooks.me

Still surreal seeing our app @CowTudder (built in a day!) being talked about on shows like Conan and James Corden, and news broadcasts all around the world. News showreel here https://vimeo.com/345898839

Minesweeper

I built a Chrome Extension to automatically delete any browser history for domains of your choosing. No need to switch to incognito to keep certain browsing habits secret! https://github.com/alexcroox/history-domain-scrubber https://t.co/0n2rEh2ODi

Love the team’s work on our site redesign. The @gatsbyjs performance is incredible! https://sidigital.co

What a time to be alive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=valQZEMJBEg

Do you need a blockchain? I doubt it

This will be huge. I have several Electron apps I’ve built that could be replaced with browser versions. “Web Writable Files API: Simplifying Local File Access” https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/11/writable-files

Our driverless future

iOS 12 Shortcuts look to be very useful! Some great templates shared here: https://sharecuts.app/

Have you zoomed out on http://maps.google.com/ recently? Satellite view is impressive!

If you use JIRA for logging time, I built a menubar app that might be of use! https://github.com/alexcroox/jira-timer-menubar

We're hiring a Junior Digital Designer! https://sidigital.co/careers/

LIMBO was one of my favourite indie games on PC. Just found out they released it on mobile and a new game in similar vein too! Would recommend. https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/playdeads-inside/id1201642309?mt=8

If you live in the UK, don't buy AppleCare https://www.apple.com/uk/legal/statutory-warranty/

Seriously impressed with AR in iOS11, this was instantly useful to me and worked! http://www.magic-plan.com/magicplan/

Working crazy overtime? How does a 33h week & sensible project deadlines sound? We are looking for another PHP dev! https://sidigital.co/careers/

My favourite @NetflixUK feature

Favourite childhood game getting another remake! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKA9E6YYMko

My immediate reaction after watching the latest season of Black Mirror https://t.co/zPXhtB7aUg

OK Westworld, I'm hooked http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0475784/

Apple make some really ugly software these days

PSA: Planning that garden or bathroom project? Get your rubbish to the tip before end of month or take credit card! http://www3.hants.gov.uk/waste-recycling/recyclingcentres/changes-waste-recycling-service.htm

It’s been 4 years of sacrifice but we finally made it!

Honey I'm just taking the robot for a walk! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjNwcMHI29k

Great VFX breakdown of "that battle scene" from GoT last week https://vimeo.com/172374044

Only 350k of the 1.7 million votes on that petition are from British Residents, strange system... https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/131215.json

Another incredible acoustic album from @aboveandbeyond. Love hearing my fav Trance tracks in their original form https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6_z7vfwZ5c

Netflix’s http://fast.com is a genius way to stop ISPs throttling their streaming service to users!

OK we need a dark office and a projector immediately https://vimeo.com/161672022

A sign of how ridiculous the housing market is at the moment; @CubittAndWest now make the BUYER pay them 1.7% on completion + max bids only!

Flash might be "dead", but I'm yet to see an html5 replacement for live video with a delay less than 2 seconds. Hell, even 10 seconds :(

So that's where my socks go... http://i.imgur.com/KAZuFKa.gifv