A collection of 26 posts
I'm dropping this here to help anyone who's like me and is spending hours trying to set up Let's Encrypt on their ghost blog that's running behind Cloudflare. After many painful hours I've finally managed to get it running. I…
It's been a weird path, I originally just wanted a cool loading icon for my side project mydevportfol.io, but building loading icons has now evolved into a bit of an addiction for me, and I've gotten quite a few…
I got the idea for this page from Wes Bos's /uses/ page. I think it's great to share the tools and workflows we use, and I myself often get asked things like what editor I use, what's my tech stack…
Techniques for quickly picking a great domain name for your #sideproject, using colours, thesaurus, translations, the animal kingdom and more
Back in 2014, myself and Ciaran Maguire set about building a chrome extension that could quickly and easily manage other chrome extensions, turning them on or off quicker and better than the native experience. Our goals were simple, we wanted…
Step-by-step tutorial - MKBHD animated loading animation with SVG and CSS
I've been a subscriber to Marques Brownlee (MKBHD) for a few years now, his tech videos are always on point, free from hype and other nonsense that can plague YouTube recently. If you like tech and don't know him, go…
How to guide - CSS and SVG "coding" animation built with Sketch, and no Javascript!
In the past, my passion for building stuff naturally made its way into my love life. Since meeting my girlfriend 2 and a half years ago I've made her things like a dreamcatcher made from a wine barrel with her…
I promised, I delivered (eventually). I shared my SVG coding loading animation a month or two ago on reddit's /r/webdev, and it went down fairly well. In my original post about how I built that animation, I talk about…
In this post I want to document all my options for the coming year in terms of side income. I want to take a critical look at what I have at my disposal, and what opportunity they present. Maybe there's…
If you've been following the blog, you'll know that I've been busy building portfolio templates for developers and programmers for the last few months. If you haven't, you can check them out here and here. I've been sharing them on…
Update: I've built a web app that lets you build an awesome developer portfolio in minutes using your GitHub profile. Check it out and let me know what you think: mydevportfol.io In this post I'll discuss (and give away…
In this post, I’ll show you how I went about coding an animated SVG (Scalable Vector Graphic) to convey to users of my web application mydevportfol.io that code is being written/generated for them while the app loads.…
Recently I've been having some fun creating animated SVG icons to use as loading "spinners" for my side projects. My most recent one was a "coding" animation for my side project mydevportfol.io, a tool to…
