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    • 22 Apr 2026
    • 3 min read
    I Made a Thing: Pulp, a Chrome Extension for Quick Link Posts

    I keep finding things worth sharing. Articles, videos, bits of news — the kind of stuff that used to go straight into a quick blog post. Except…

    • 1 Feb 2020
    • 2 min read
    Taking the month off

    After I completed the full stack web dev boot camp (see my final project code) I decided to give myself a month off studying software…

    • 29 Jun 2019
    • 5 min read
    Coding on a plane... on an iPad

    The project In my ongoing efforts to up my development game, I’m currently working on learning how to create an app that has user…

    • 25 Apr 2019
    • 1 min read
    Traversing folders

    I always manage to forget the syntax for traversing folders. So for the recorded, this is how it's done: / means drop back to the root folder…

    • 15 Apr 2019
    • 1 min read
    RESTful Routes

    What are REST, Routes, CRUD? Representation State Transfer or REST is a pattern/convention for defining our routes. Routes are the code that…

    • 8 Apr 2019
    • 2 min read
    Installing MongoDB on macOS

    The course I'm doing uses Cloud 9 (C9) as cloud-based IDE. I've basically ignored that side of things and done everything locally on my Mac as…

    • 1 Apr 2019
    • 1 min read
    YelpCamp

    I've now reached a turning point in my web dev course. This morning I started writing code on my first meaty project, YelpCamp. As the name…

    • 29 Mar 2019
    • 1 min read
    JSON

    I've worked with JSON data before when I was learning Swift and iOS development. At the time I didn't really know much of JavaScript or its…

    • 27 Mar 2019
    • 1 min read
    A battle for the ages

    Spaces vs tabs is a hilarious holy war that doesn't really matter but I do find amusing. Modern text editors normalise differences on a project…

    • 25 Mar 2019
    • 2 min read
    Express snippets

    Since I'm playing with Express at the moment I've updated my collection of snippets to include a few things I seem to be doing regularly:…