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…
So, if you’ve been following along, you know that I’ve been going a bit crazy lately building free web developer portfolio templates for Redditors. As with everything I do, I’ve been looking at ways to automate it,…
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 talk about how…
Yep. You read that right, I made money selling used cardboard boxes. It sounds ridiculous, and it is, which is why I love telling this story. It was one of my earlier lessons in business, entrepreneurship, web development, and luck.…
TL;DR The tool I built in 4 hours to extract all URLs from a site’s sitemap.xml file A good friend of mine, Craig Ellis, is a Sales Engineer in HubSpot. I recently built him a project that…
In this post, we’ll discover how colour can be used to subconsciously influence how your users feel about your minimum viable product. We’ll see how colour can be used as a short-cut to your user’s brain, gently…
Update: This post is from the summer of 2016. I have since updated my blog to the premium theme you see now. I’ll keep this post for posterity and to see the process I went through in playing with…
A quick custom slash command tutorial using Nodejs and Express, complete with styling responses
I’ve been in gyms a lot lately, whether it’s white collar boxing, generic cardio on a treadmill or powerlifting in the weights section. I’ve been at it all over the past 4 years in my ongoing pursuit…
I’ve been a student of TeamTreehouse for quite a while now. I cannot speak highly enough of how polished and refined their courses feel and how much I’ve learned over the past year. So when they launched their…
Custom Chrome on the Chrome Web Store This project was a collaborative effort with a friend Ciaran Maguire while he was in Thailand travelling. The idea initially came about as the process of navigating to chrome’s extensions page to…
