Phil Nash

Developer evangelist for Twilio and Authy. I write JavaScript and Ruby. Probably listening to ska punk right now. console.log('🍻');

Melbourne, Australia Joined on Jan 4, 2017 https://philna.sh

Work

Developer Evangelist at Twilio

Phil Nash for Twilio

Nov 11 '20

Send your first interactive AMP Email with Twilio SendGrid

#email #amp #javascript #html

9 min read

GitHub Copilot: My experience after one week usage

From the GitHub blog: Developed in collaboration with OpenA...

Jul 19 '21

How we use a popup for Google and Outlook OAuth

I came across this article while trying to implement exactly ...

Jan 28 '21

How to View Your Live Localhost From Your Laptop on Your Mobile Device

If you like the look of ngrok, I created a VSCode extension f...

Dec 13 '20

Twilio Hackathon Help Thread

Hey, I’m not sure what image you mean here. If your account ...

Oct 17 '20

Bogged down by Blogging

It’s such a pain that those three Ps can be overcome by just ...

Aug 14 '20

Build an in browser video chat with screen sharing using Twilio Video

Do you mean just share the camera and not the microphone? If...

Aug 5 '20

Announcing: The Grant For The Web x DEV Hackathon Winners!

Delighted to have picked up a runner-up prize! Congratulatio...

Jun 26 '20

How do you record GIFs?

It's not free, but I use Camtasia to create gifs and ImageOpt...

Jun 18 '20

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Aug 14 '20

How to stream file downloads in Node.js with Got

#node #http #webdev #javascript

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Aug 12 '20

How to build a one-time passcode protected conference line with Twilio Verify and Ruby

#ruby #rails #twilio #otp

10 min read

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Jul 28 '20

Build a passcode protected conference line with Twilio and Ruby

#twilio #ruby #rails

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Jul 15 '20

6 things you didn't know you could do with the Twilio Serverless Toolkit

#twilio #serverless #javascript

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Jun 2 '20

A Jekyll plugin for Web Monetization

#gftwhackathon #ruby #jekyll #webmonetization

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May 24 '20

An exclusive content Web Component for the Web Monetization API

#gftwhackathon #webdev #webmonetization #opensource

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May 18 '20

Web Components for the Web Monetization API

#gftwhackathon #webdev #webmonetization #opensource

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Apr 30 '20

How to add an overlay to your web video chat

#video #css #javascript #twilio

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Apr 22 '20

Build a community SMS group chat with Twilio Functions and Google Sheets

#twilio #sms

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Apr 14 '20

I built a VSCode extension: ngrok for VSCode

#showdev #vscode #ngrok #opensource

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Apr 13 '20

Happy Easter from Ruby 2.7.1

#watercooler #ruby

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Apr 8 '20

Twilio Hackathon office hours on Twitch with Phil and Dom

#twilio #twiliohackathon

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Apr 8 '20

How to build a conference line with Twilio and Ruby

#ruby #rails #twilio

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Apr 2 '20

Twilio Hackathon office hours on Twitch

#twilio #twiliohackathon

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Apr 1 '20

An introduction to the Web Contact Picker API

#javascript #webdev #webrtc #twilio

8 min read

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Mar 24 '20

Making a responsive Twitch Embed

#webdev #css #twitch

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Mar 20 '20

Build a location-aware WhatsApp weather bot with Ruby, Sinatra and Twilio

#twilio #whatsapp #ruby #sinatra

8 min read

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Mar 18 '20

The story of a mildly popular Ruby gem

#opensource #ruby #api #bitly

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Mar 5 '20

Mistakes I've made treating file paths as strings

#ruby #node #strings

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Feb 17 '20

Build a WhatsApp chatbot with Ruby, Sinatra and Twilio

#ruby #sinatra #whatsapp #twilio

10 min read

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Feb 10 '20

Speech to text in the browser with the Web Speech API

#javascript #webdev #speechrecognition

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Jan 29 '20

How to find CFPs for developer conferences

#speaking #devrel #conferences #publicspeaking

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Jan 15 '20

Testing signed and encrypted cookies in Rails

#ruby #rails #testing

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Jan 14 '20

HTML attributes to improve your users' two factor authentication experience

#html #ux #security #webdev

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Jan 6 '20

Send and track faxes with the Twilio Fax API using Sinatra and Ruby

#ruby #sinatra #twilio #fax

10 min read

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Dec 17 '19

Track email statuses in Ruby on Rails with SendGrid

#twilio #ruby #rails #email

8 min read

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Oct 14 '19

Build a Video Chat with React Hooks

#javascript #react #twilio #video

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Sep 30 '19

Untitled Developer Game

#discuss #jokes

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Aug 26 '19

Text to speech in the browser with the Web Speech API

#javascript #webdev #texttospeech

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Aug 27 '19

How not to sort an array in JavaScript

#javascript

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Jun 3 '19

An introduction to the MediaRecorder API

#javascript #web

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May 28 '19

Those silly mistakes we all make

#discuss

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May 23 '19

Serverless Ruby on AWS Lambda with the Jets framework

#ruby #serverless #rails #twilio

9 min read

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Apr 18 '19

Send Images and Files via WhatsApp Using Ruby

#twilio #ruby #whatsapp

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Apr 16 '19

Start a new Twilio Functions project the easy way

#twilio #serverless #node

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Apr 2 '19

Go celebrity spotting with the Twilio API for WhatsApp, AWS Rekognition and Ruby

#ruby #aws #twilio #whatsapp

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Mar 25 '19

How to download image files in Ruby

#ruby

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Mar 5 '19

Time to upgrade RubyGems

#ruby #security

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Jan 31 '19

Build a chat app with Twilio and KendoReact

#twilio #react #javascript #kendo

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Jan 24 '19

Forward fax to email with SendGrid and Node.js

#node #javascript #twilio #email

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Jan 21 '19

Suggest.rb - tells you which method does the thing you want to do

#githunt #ruby

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Jan 10 '19

How to start a Node.js project

#node #javascript #opensource

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Jan 3 '19

2018 in review

#personal #yearinreview

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Oct 31 '18

Messing about with JavaScript, video and the Web Audio API for Halloween

#javascript #halloween #webaudio

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Oct 25 '18

How to send an SMS from React with Twilio

#sms #javascript #react #twilio

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Oct 23 '18

Service workers: beware Safari's range request

#javascript #serviceworker #web #pwa

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Oct 10 '18

Set up a React app with a Node.js server proxy

#react #javascript #node #express

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Oct 4 '18

Rails 6 to include new Action Text framework

#discuss #ruby #rails #news

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Sep 28 '18

Techniques for animating on the canvas in React

#react #javascript #animation #canvas

5 min read

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Sep 24 '18

Audio visualisation with the Web Audio API and React

#javascript #react #webaudio #canvas

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Sep 4 '18

Implementing one time passwords in Crystal

#crystal #2fa #security

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Aug 28 '18

Build a collaborative playlist over WhatsApp with Rails, Twilio, and Spotify

#ruby #rails #twilio #spotify

10 min read

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Aug 27 '18

👉 Emoji translations with the 📞 Twilio API for 💬 WhatsApp and Node.js

#javascript #node #whatsapp #twilio

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Aug 24 '18

Developer whimsy: Llamas in Pajamas

#discuss

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Aug 21 '18

Git commands to keep a fork up to date

#git #vcs #github

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May 28 '18

Spring clean your dev machine

#maintenance #ruby #node #docker

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May 25 '18

Screen capture in Microsoft Edge

#javascript #webrtc #video #edge

6 min read

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Apr 30 '18

Choosing cameras in JavaScript with the mediaDevices API

#javascript #webrtc #twilio

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Apr 26 '18

Top 10 errors from 1000+ Ruby on Rails projects (and how to avoid them)

#ruby #rails #errors #erroranalytics

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