A collection of 30 posts
If you're reading this, you don't need to be told about morning journaling being awesome, you've probably been doing and realised how great it is for helping you reach your goals. So now, you're probably looking for ways you can…
I recently moved house. As a moving present I bought myself a slow cooker. This device is amazing, it's really broadened my horizons as far as cooking food goes. So, to celebrate my new-found mad kitchen skills, I decided to…
In case you haven't been following along, I have my side project mydevportfol.io, which means I keep an eye out for interesting portfolio designs that I could build. While perusing Dribbble, I came across this awesome shot (below), and…
I run a side project that helps developers and programmers build portfolios based on their Github projects: mydevportfol.io. Recently, it's not been running very well... Performance is critical for ecommerce website, but it's even more critical when your audience…
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…
