Hi 馃憢 I'm a Developer Advocate and former filmmaking lecturer from the UK. I write about code, design, creativity and learning.
Over the last few years, the social media landscape has become almost unrecognisable. The popularity of the once-dominant Facebook has continued to wain, Instagram is flooded with ads and sponsored posts, and TikTok has well and truly captured the at...
Extensibility. Asynchronous. Abstraction. Object-oriented. Encapsulation. Do you really know what these words mean? Or, perhaps more importantly, do you need to know what they mean? Before learning to code, I spent a decade working in education, prim...
Practice is important. When learning something new, applying it in a practical context is a great way to cement learning and deepen understanding, but... it's not everything. As I've written about before in previous articles, learning is a complex pr...
For years before learning to code, I had ideas for websites, apps and projects. However, without having the skills to actually build them, that's all they were - ideas. In September 2020, several months after the pandemic first started, I did what ma...
Last week, I launched my very first product on Product Hunt! My product, ColorHub, helps developers to find the perfect colour palette for their next project. What started as a small-scale experimental project grew into something so much more. Eager ...
On your journey of learning to code it's highly likely that at one point or another, you'll lose sleep over it. Perhaps working late into the night trying to tackle a seemingly-unfixable bug keeps you awake long past your bedtime, or waking up in the...
...and Learned to Actually Enjoy it.
It might just be me, but I've always found full-screen mobile menus to be unnecessarily complicated and time-consuming to build with HTML and CSS, and I'm often not happy with the final results. So, recently I decided to build one with React and Tail...
...and it's not "Just Build!"
