About a year ago, millions of people’s working arrangements were thrown upside down. Instructed to stay at home if we could, employers and employees have had to adapt to a remote working environment in extreme circumstances. We had already been making arrangements to go remote-first for a few months in…

2021. A year that continues to beat us with 2020’s stick whilst simultaneously dangling a carrot — a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel in the form of a vaccine. Whatever happens this year, and the jury’s still out, we know the Covid-19 pandemic will continue to…

In the last decade we’ve witnessed the launch of technologies that have fundamentally changed our lives. You might think such times have led the digital agency to the land of plenty. But ironically, many have been left in the wake of a new wave of innovative digital businesses more adept…

Herein lies some home truths that are particular to our industry. Home truths that many find difficult to fathom, and you may find challenging. They have been hard earned by us, through years of endeavour and curiosity. But to you my friends they are given willingly. You’re welcome. There are no economies of scale The more…

At We Make Waves, we’re continuously improving our cloud-based infrastructure and development workspaces. Most recently, we’ve migrated all of our projects from running on bare metal to Docker. Our motivation for doing so was to take advantage of: Isolation: We can run multiple applications with different dependencies on the same…

Introduction When designing a new website or digital product it’s important to test your solutions on end users as soon as possible, and there’s lots of prototyping tools available to enable us to do this long before any software has been written. Whilst it may seem like a lot of time…

When it comes to digital product development, there’s always one common theme: there will be more things to do than resources available to do them. This is true whether the product has already been created and we want to work out what to do next or whether the product is…

Our main project at UVD, Limpid Markets, is an AngularJS app written in TypeScript. As anyone who’s worked with AngularJS knows, there are a huge number of pitfalls to avoid, one of which is a lack of type safety (or any other sort of safety for that matter) in templates…

We recently released our latest open source library, ngx-graphs. It’s a collection of Angular graphing components, designed to be highly composable. It’s very much still in the alpha stage, and only supports 2 different types of graphs at the moment. In this blog post, I’ll discuss why we felt the…