Tom Ashworth

My goal is to write good quality, well tested frontend code that makes building great products easier, faster and more enjoyable.
I want to:
write code that fits within an existing app and the wider JavaScript ecosystem

If you’re the kind of person that does hard exercise, do you find yourself comparing one particular struggle to another?
“This is hill is hard, but that one last week was bigger so I must be able to keep going…”
I do, and the same with coding:

The workings of large distributed systems fascinate me. At the same time, working at Twitter has taught me hard lessons about the variety of exciting failure scenarios of a scaled system. "holy shit, everything's on fire" moments are my personal favourites...

Working on fetch-engine has had me wondering about how we interact with the network from JavaScript.
I'd like the library to make network request timeouts simple. They're a good practice for distributed systems, and we should all be using them without thinking about it....