Sophie Au

I truly believe in Dieter Braun's "Less but better". Not just in relation to design but also when it comes to writing software and organisational processes. My number one goal is to delight the customer from day one. Currently, I'm doing this as co-founder of RadioEye.

Articles

2021-08-12 User Testing
2021-08-11 User Interviews
2021-06-28 Building a GUI App Using Go and Svelte
2021-06-28 Go Resources
2020-12-28 CLI Guidelines
2020-11-28 Fetching Data From a GraphQL Endpoint with REST
2020-11-28 Using the Google Sheets API to Save Event Signups
2020-10-25 Using Enums Instead of Booleans to Define States
2020-08-23 CSS Grid Tips and Tricks
2020-08-23 Replacing Switch with Object Literals
2020-08-02 Non-Rectangular Borders in CSS
2020-07-31 My Testing Philosophy
2020-07-30 How to fix that annoying space below your <img />
2020-07-14 Publishing your Package on NPM
2020-07-05 Accessibility in React Native
2020-07-02 Accessibility in React
2020-06-28 Accessibility on the Web: Enhance
2020-06-27 Why I don't like Styled Components
2020-06-26 Accessibility on the Web: The Big Picture
2020-06-26 Accessibility on the Web: Inclusive Design
2020-06-21 Accessibility on the Web: Readability
2020-06-17 Accessibility on the Web: Keyboard Navigation
2020-06-14 Threat Modeling
2020-06-06 Accessibility on the Web: Semantic HTML
2020-06-05 Accessibility on the Web: Focus, Hover and Active States
2020-05-31 Working on an existing Gatsby Project
2020-05-31 Accessibility on the Web: Forms
2020-05-29 Accessibility on the Web: Images and Animations
2020-05-24 React State
2020-05-17 Custom React Hooks
2020-05-10 React Hooks: useImperativeHandle
2020-05-03 React Hooks: useState, useReducer and useEffect
2020-04-26 React Context
2020-04-19 HOC vs Render Prop vs Hook
2020-04-12 Typing React Components
2020-04-05 My Tech Stack (April '20)
2020-03-29 Website Launch Checklist
2020-03-24 React Project Structure
2020-03-15 Notes on JavaScript Arrays
2020-02-21 Adding WebP Support to your Gatsby Project
2019-12-03 Setting up Storybook for React Native
2018-11-05 Mocking stdin, stderr and stdout for python unittest
2018-06-30 How to Write and Use a Simple Custom Element in 5 Minutes
2018-05-31 Setting Up Zero-Downtime Deployment On Heroku
2018-05-30 The Only 11 Git Commands You Really Need
2018-05-30 Releasing a Command-Line App to PyPI When It Really Doesn't Want You To
2017-12-03 How the Imperial Splendour tool package came to be
2017-05-09 Getting HDMI audio working on Fedora
2017-04-05 Setting up Ruby and Rails on Fedora
2017-03-20 How to get the System Clipboard working in Vim on Fedora
2017-03-20 Setting up Android Studio on Fedora
2017-02-28 Setting up jekyll on Fedora
2016-01-31 Imperial Splendour Launcher - The Requirements
2015-12-17 My One Project for 2016: A Launcher for my Brother’s Mod of Empire: Total War
2015-03-21 The Perils of Trying to KISS and DRY
2014-12-07 Why I Love Programming