Chris Roberts

I'm Chris Roberts, a software engineer based in the UK.

Adding Images to Hexo Posts with Markdown

I'm very happy with the Hexo experience overall, but there was one fly in the ointment that made editing and previewing my posts a bit fiddly, and that is that Hexo doesn't support the Markdown format for adding images to a post. Here is a great solution

Monday, January 6th 2020

Cancelling a Polly Retry policy

Polly makes it easy to add resilience to your application with highly configurable retry policies. But what if you need to cancel a running retry policy? I've put together an example.

Monday, January 6th 2020

Authentication and Protected Routes in VueJS

A common requirement is to provide a way to authenticate users against a remote service, store their profile information on the client and protect certain routes so that only logged in users may access them. Lets see how we can accomplish this in Vue using the official vue-router plugin.

Thursday, January 3rd 2019

New Possibilities with Cloudflare Workers

When presented with a traditional deployment question for the web, such as "how do I deploy an API?" or "how do I host a static site?", there are now a lot more interesting, flexible and cost effective solutions than there were just a year or two ago.

Saturday, December 29th 2018