It can be difficult to ignore the niggling thought that the career path you chose as a teenager might not be the most suitable direction for the person you have become. After having so much time for reflection over the last few years, many people are experiencing this same worry. In 2021, there was a 24% rise in applications from mature students for full-time undergraduate degrees, raising the bar for ...

Making websites has become easy. As creatures of habit, we use the same tools we love to get our job done. As the world is slowly but surely facing irreversible changes because of human activities, what can we do to help as developers?

Intro

At Potato we proudly use Google Cloud services to host our projects (except in cases where a client has a preference for another cloud provider) and have used App Engine since the beginning. This has had numerous benefits for us as a business, not least in the current remote working climate.

Since its introduction in 2009, Node.js has gained huge popularity and usage. But with that, issues with its ecosystem, feature adoption and dependency bloat have started to surface. So, in true JavaScript community style, there's a new kid on the block: Deno 🦕

At the time of writing, we’re in the middle of the COVID-19 lockdown. As with most other companies, the lockdown has required us at Potato to rapidly change the way we work day-to-day. We’re a tech company, so that has given us a big advantage in this rapid and unsettling change of routine. But as a company, we’ve historically encouraged our engineers to travel into our central London office most ...