A collection of 14 posts
I've been working on a side project, mydevportfol.io for about 2 years now (on and off). It's finally at a point where it's good enough that people are willing to pay for it, which is an incredible feeling.I…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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,…
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…
A quick custom slash command tutorial using Nodejs and Express, complete with styling responses
