Hello David! As the newest developer on the Inlight block, tell us a bit about how you came to join us and what drew you to the role?

I wanted to work on new and interesting problems using technologies I’d not used in the past. In particular, Inlight has a huge amount of React experience within the development team and I was keen to learn more about React from people who have a strong grasp of React best practices and work on mature React applications.

Is there anything in the development world right now that’s really captured your attention?

I’ve been closely following the progress of static site generators using JAMstack approach. They generate an entire website as static HTML. This enables developers to build sites that are incredibly fast and have no backend allowing they can be deployed just about anywhere. My personal favourites at the moment are Gatsby.js and React Static but I’m really interested in Next.js too.

What do you do to keep up with technology trends? Are you into podcasts? What’s on your playlist right now?

I subscribe to quite a few email newsletters but a few of my favourites are Weekly Reading by Assaf Arkin for general web development news, Craft Link List for everything Craft CMS and The Ember Times to keep up with Ember.js.

In terms of podcasts, I tend to listen to Syntax FM and Hanselminutes. Syntax.FM is great to catch up on the web development industry and Hanselminutes is to learn more about technologies that are outside my day-to-day work.

If you could get on a plane to anywhere in the world right now, where would you go and why?

Patagonia. I’m a keen hiker and would love to explore the mountains, glaciers, and fjords of this remote region.