After previous roles with MOO and Bite the Ballot, Kara joined the Nearform London team in late 2018 as a cross-stack engineer with a focus on React, UI, and UX issues. While UI/UX engineering are her specialities, she’s working to broaden her knowledge of backend technologies. Kara is passionate about mentoring others, and regularly mentors people looking to get into tech and/or junior devs through organizations like Codebar and NodeGirls. She’s also interested in ReasonML as an emerging technology, has spoken at the ReactJS Girls meetup, and contributed to the 2018 Pride in London website.
Runpkg v1.0 - The node packages explorer
December 4, 2019
Earlier in the year we released Runpkg, an online tool to help developers explore npm packages and their dependencies. We were pleased with the results, but, as with any prototype, there was room for improvement. Over the past few weeks, we were able to iterate on our prototype to improve the package viewing experience, the performance and speed of the site, and the overall design and user experience. Today we are delighted to announce the release of Runpkg v1.
CI/CD In a Build-free World
May 21, 2019
Because of the build step and the increased complexity of our apps, Continuous Integration tools and processes have become an essential part of web development. But builds themselves are not why CI is valuable, they're just a side effect of the approach we as an industry have gravitated towards, and they have some drawbacks.