Rhys Mills | Full Stack Developer

Hello, world. I'm Rhys.

PROJECT | Dec 11, 2023 | External Link
Making Typerighter work harder

How we built a realtime spellchecker for The Guardian’s digital content management system, Composer (from The Guardian’s engineering blog).
POST | Feb 10, 2023
'a11y' isn’t accessible

Accessibility enthusiasts have a strange habit of referring to accessibility as ‘a11y’. Why is this a bad idea? And what can we learn from it?
POST | Feb 3, 2023
How to make screen recordings with internal device audio on a Mac

TLDR: use Kap and Loopback
POST | Jan 30, 2023
Running an ongoing process to watch logs in an EC2 instance

Using an Ubuntu service
POST | Sep 15, 2021
Eyegaze Browser: browse the internet with your eyes

An accessibility demo from The Guardian's Hack Day.
POST | Sep 7, 2021
How to set a default PR template for a GitHub organisation

I was wondering how a default PR template could be set for a GitHub organisation, but I found it a little difficult to find official documentation on the subject.
POST | Jul 28, 2021
Installing Kali on a Raspberry Pi

How I fixed a few snags to turn my microcomputer into a pentesting tool.
POST | Mar 8, 2021
Switching careers into programming

Moving into software development without a computer science degree or bootcamp experience.
POST | Feb 11, 2021
Audio Graphs

Making data visualisation accessible at The Guardian's Hack Day.
POST | Dec 9, 2020
How do hex colour codes work?

An explanation of what hex codes represent.
POST | Oct 5, 2020
GAWP - Generative art with Python

Recreating the work of George Nees with Python and svgwrite.
POST | Sep 26, 2020
What runs this site?
PROJECT | Aug 30, 2020 | External Link
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day

A Chrome extension replacing the New Tab with a gallery of inspiring images from NASA’s “Astronomy Picture of the Day”.
PROJECT | Aug 30, 2020 | External Link
Minimalist Calculator: a Chrome extension

A calculator extension for Chrome, with keyboard input. Built with React, math.js and big.js.