Ben Newton

Frontend Architect and Engineering Leader sharing insights on web development, productivity, and technology.


Navigating Your Career Path as a Developer: From Junior to Principal and Beyond

Navigating Your Career Path as a Developer: From Junior to Principal and Beyond

Learn about the different levels of developer roles and get career advice from my journey as a developer, from an accidental start to a Frontend Architect. Navigate your tech career with insights on continuous learning, mentorship, and strategic growth

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How I Add the Weather to My Obsidian Daily Note

How I Add the Weather to My Obsidian Daily Note

Use iOS (or macOS) Shortcuts to add the day's weather for my location to my Obsidian Daily Note.

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How I Use iOS Shortcuts to Add Today's Local Weather to My Obsidian Daily Note

How I Use iOS Shortcuts to Add Today's Local Weather to My Obsidian Daily Note

Use iOS (or macOS) Shortcuts to add the day's weather for my location to my Obsidian Daily Note.

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Automating My Obsidian Daily Note

Automating My Obsidian Daily Note

How I use iOS Shortcuts to automatically create and populate my daily note.

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Quickly Add VSCode to Your iPad

Quickly Add VSCode to Your iPad

A quick walkthrough of how to add VSCode to your iPad home screen.

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How I Import My Meetings Into My Obsidian Daily Note

How I Import My Meetings Into My Obsidian Daily Note

How I automate importing my Obsidian daily note's meeting schedule from my Outlook calendar events.

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5 VSCode Extensions I Use Daily to Manage My Remote Teams

5 VSCode Extensions I Use Daily to Manage My Remote Teams

VSCode Extensions that, as a lead front-end developer and architect, I can't live without.

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How I View My Latest Readwise Highlights in My Obsidian Daily Note

How I View My Latest Readwise Highlights in My Obsidian Daily Note

I created an Obsidian Dataview query to view my latest Readwise highlights daily.

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First Look at the Official Readwise Obsidian Plugin

First Look at the Official Readwise Obsidian Plugin

A rundown of the official Obsidian plugin from Readwise

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My Obsidian Daily Note Template

My Obsidian Daily Note Template

How I use Obsidian to track my day-to-day.

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