Chris Dermody

The three articles needed to install Let's Encrypt free SSL on a Ghost blog on DigitalOcean that's using Cloudflare

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

I'm making a CSS animation course for loading icons and I need your help...

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 requests for tutorials. I've

The products, tools and technologies I use on a daily basis to get things built

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 for my projects, and

How to pick an available domain name for your side project or business in 10 minutes

Techniques for quickly picking a great domain name for your #sideproject, using colours, thesaurus, translations, the animal kingdom and more

Chrome Extension Manager "Custom Chrome" Gets a New Lease Of Life

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 it to work, but also be pretty. We built it,

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