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19 July 2016 · Dean Hume

A Basic Guide to Background Sync using Service Workers

It's been a while since I've guest written on another website. I normally find myself writing solely for this site, but I recently teamed up with Nicolás Bevacqua and his fun blog site Ponyfoo.com. If you've not heard of ponyfoo before, I thoroughly recommend checking it out.

Service Workers - Background Sync API - Ponyfoo

The guest article dives into the Background Sync API using Service Workers. Don't worry if you've never used Service Workers before - the article goes through the basics and includes a working example for you to test with.

The article is live and I'd love your feedback. Please let me know if you end up implementing this for yourself!

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Why Short AI Coding Prompts Can Cost You More Time

3 September 2026

Why Short AI Coding Prompts Can Cost You More Time

Ever tried to save time by keeping a prompt short - only to spend the next ten minutes answering follow-up questions because the AI didn't have what it needed? Yeah, me too. I recently came across a really interesting post from the GitHub Copilot team about making AI coding