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At Go Tripod, there are many ways in which we improve our working efficiency. We pick the best technologies, such as WordPress, React or Ruby on Rails. We pick the best services, such as Teamwork, Slack or Xero. But we spend our days sat in front of a computer and the way we interface with...

In a previous article I talked about adding the defer attribute to script tags to avoid blocking page render. However, if you’re developing a WordPress theme, chances are you won’t simply be able to amend this HTML. Instead you'll need to make use of the wp_enqueue_script function from within your theme's functions.php file. This function...

Timber has loads of useful filters built in which can make all kinds of jobs much easier. One of those jobs is resizing and cropping images, for which we can use the resize filter. The syntax is simple, as with all things Twig - we simply add the filter to our image source, passing through...

One of the first things I decided to tackle as part of my recent work on website response times, assuming it’d be a simple process, was render blocking web fonts. Little did I know I was opening up a right can of words (sorry)… Numerous techniques have been developed over the past few years with...

When working on improving the response time of your site, one of the simplest optimisations to make is the deferring of scripts. In most cases, this can be done with the simple addition of the defer attribute to the script tags within your HTML: <script src="" defer></script> When a browser gets to a script tag...

This post was originally published on our Technical Director's personal blog. Amazon's cloud offering, AWS, provides a wealth of resources for developers and infrastructure engineers. In this article, I'll show how Amazon Cognito can be used to record user preferences and data without having to set up a server or database. I'll build a small...

Colin's started playing around with the new React Native from Facebook, a way of building native-speed applications for iOS using JavaScript. It's a completely new approach and we're really excited about it - follow Colin's experiments over at his personal blog.

Development Gems (Geek Alert) During our Ruby On Rails development process at Go Tripod we’re always trying to streamline our workflow. We've tested plenty of gems supporting our everyday programming work. Some of them were interesting - but unfortunately not handy in real work, but we found a few to be really useful. For those...