Blog archive

• 23 Nov 2019
• 1 min read

Did you know you can sponsor my study and contributions to open source projects? If I had my way that's how I'd spend all my professionally…

• geekpulp

• 21 Oct 2019
• 1 min read

Like a good Apple nerd, I updated to the latest version of macOS Catalina. If you're using older 32bit apps Catalina won't run them.…

• geekpulp

• 29 Jun 2019
• 5 min read

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…

• dev
• process
• tools
• udemy

• 25 Apr 2019
• 1 min read

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…

• dev

• 15 Apr 2019
• 1 min read

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

• dev
• process

• 8 Apr 2019
• 2 min read

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…

• dev
• process
• tools

• 1 Apr 2019
• 1 min read

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…

• dev
• javascript
• projects
• udemy

• 29 Mar 2019
• 1 min read

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…

• dev
• javascript

• 27 Mar 2019
• 1 min read

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…

• dev
• process

• 25 Mar 2019
• 2 min read

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:…

• dev
• javascript
• optimising
• process