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Embroider Initiative

Embroider Initiative Week 22

This week we made some progress towards using Ember with Vite and we are one step closer to finishing the allowAppImports feature in ember-auto-import Starting work on virtualising main app asset

  • Chris Manson
    Chris Manson
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Embroider Initiative

Embroider Initiative Week 21

This week saw a lot of progress towards the Vite implementation with some interesting internal Embroider refactors and reaching the end of the Vite and esbuild plugin experiment (for now). I also helped

  • Chris Manson
    Chris Manson
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Embroider Initiative

Embroider Initiative Week 20

This week saw a lot of success in my pairing sessions for the Embroider Initiative backers, some good progress on the Embroider Vite experiment, and a significant improvement for anyone using ember-cli-

  • Chris Manson
    Chris Manson
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Embroider Initiative

Embroider Initiative Week 19

This week has a slightly shorter update. I was away for some of the week and spent most of my time working on Embroider on the same Vite and esbuild experiment I've

  • Chris Manson
    Chris Manson
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Embroider Initiative

Embroider Initiative Week 18

This week has been a very busy one: finalising some work that has been in progress for a long while, working to help make Embroider more stable and easier to test, and moving

  • Chris Manson
    Chris Manson
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Embroider Initiative

Embroider Initiative Week 17

This week we figured out the things that were slowing down builds for some people, we merged a number of new performance improvements, and I released ember-cli-update that now finally has

  • Chris Manson
    Chris Manson
3 min read
Embroider Initiative

Embroider Initiative Week 16

This week is quite an exciting one, consisting of a significant push into the @embroider/vite implementation and a better default experience for users generating a new Ember app with the --embroider flag.

  • Chris Manson
    Chris Manson
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Embroider Initiative

Embroider Initiative Week 14

This week I made good progress on the ember-auto-import work that allows you to use Webpack to import files from inside your Ember app, I made some progress on my work

  • Chris Manson
    Chris Manson
2 min read
Embroider Initiative

Embroider Initiative Week 13

This week I have been working on ember-cli-update to make sure that it will work with the v2 addon blueprint and allow people to keep up with the great progress that

  • Chris Manson
    Chris Manson
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Embroider Initiative Updates

Starting in June I have had the fantastic opportunity to work on the Embroider Initiative. This programme was put together by my employer, Mainmatter and backed by some awesome companies (and even an

  • Chris Manson
    Chris Manson
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It's All Gravy

Anyone that knows me will already know that I do a lot of Open Source development. I’ve been positively Open Source obsessed for over 15 years now and enjoy working on Open

  • Chris Manson
    Chris Manson
2 min read
Ember

Ember 2019 - Sell What We Have and Fix Papercuts

This year will be bringing massive changes to the Ember landscape with the "release" of the upcoming Ember edition - Ember Octane. Along the way, I think we need to concentrate on three areas:

  • Chris Manson
    Chris Manson
8 min read
Guides App

Broccoli - Starting the Build and Eating Your Greens

This is the second part of a 6 part series on how we rebuilt the new Ember Guides from the ground up over the course of six months, converting it into an Ember

  • Chris Manson
    Chris Manson
8 min read
Guides App

The "Right Way" to Build the Ember Guides

This blog kicks off the series of how we rebuilt the Ember Guides App from the ground up, but also goes into some of the motivations and thought processes that surrounded that project.

  • Chris Manson
    Chris Manson
3 min read
Ember

The True Power of JSON:API - Have Someone Else Do It

This post is going to try to show the true power of using a standard way to define your APIs and how to use JSON:API as an "anti-bikeshedding weapon". I will

  • Chris Manson
    Chris Manson
6 min read
Ember

If I Have Learned One Thing From Ember in the Last 4 Years ...

“One thing about which fish know exactly nothing is water, since they have no anti-environment which would enable them to perceive the element they live in.” ― Marshall McLuhan, War & Peace in the

  • Chris Manson
    Chris Manson
2 min read
Productivity

A First Date With Todoist

Introduction You know the feeling; You're sitting there waiting, your palms are sweating and the more you try to relax the more you get a rising feeling of butterflies in your stomach.

  • Chris Manson
    Chris Manson
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Resolutions

2015 - Quantified Resolutions of a Computer Scientist

Happy New Year and welcome to my brand new blog. To kick off the year this is a post with my own take on New Year's Resolutions, which is two part Computer

  • Chris Manson
    Chris Manson
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