Chris Dermody

January 2018 side-project stock take, and what I'm thinking about moving into a new year

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 a project I need to revive, and maybe

How to generate different device frames in Chrome to show off responsive websites and apps

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

A Minimal Web Developer Portfolio | Free Template

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 the code for) my latest portfolio

An animated SVG loader for mydevportfol.io | step by step how-to guide

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. I’ve really liked SVG icons for a while, and

How to convert animated SVG to GIF

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 help developers and programmers build awesome portfolios from

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