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Improving My CSS Skills – 6 New Things

Jason M — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 21:27:12 +0000

Here are some new things that I’ve learned with CSS, which solve common real-word problems. I’m always looking at improving my css skills (who doesn’t!) Here are 6 of the latest things I’ve discovered: Fitting that round image in a square peg Sometimes you want an image to always fill a space, for example as […]

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A Developer Perspective on AI Art

Jason M — Sun, 29 Jan 2023 18:16:13 +0000

I thought I’d share some of my personal opinions about the rise of AI art, the debates around it, and how it’s coming to take all the jobs of artists. This focuses on the likes of dalle-2 and midjourney. Which I have used both extensively. As a developer, I can totally sympathise with that fear […]

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Improving My JavaScript Skills – 5 Things

Jason M — Sun, 11 Jul 2021 13:16:16 +0000

I’m always improving my javascript skills when I’m learning something new. Sometimes it’s worth going over existing skills again to reinforce that knowledge. I’ve found these 5 things to be pretty powerful. 1. Underscoring Variables and Namespacing events These is more helpful for code readability, rather than it being a particular feature. The first uses […]

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Trying to Be a Less Stressed Developer

Jason M — Sat, 01 Aug 2020 22:42:54 +0000

At the end of a mentally draining day fixing bugs, angry clients and tight deadlines, I can honestly hold my hand up at times and say that my work has made me into a stressed developer. Sometimes I wonder why I even do it. I accept, like any job, sometimes things just don’t go to […]

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Web Development & Design Theory: Make them work in a Project

Jason M — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 22:39:45 +0000

I spent some time studying Graphic Design whilst at college. This article is a good, basic primer on design theory. Though taught as part of a Graphic Design course, I’ve found it to be just as useful in web design, front end development in particular. Web Development & Design theory just work well together. The […]

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Freelance Web Developer Advice I Should Have Paid Attention to

Jason M — Wed, 06 May 2020 22:45:14 +0000

Whilst on my web development path I inevitably got involved with some freelancing work. But I had no such freelance web developer advice, so I had to learn on the job. My future self takes a look back in time at some of the things I did wrong, and considers some of the things I […]

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Reading Resources for Better Coding: My Wish List

Jason M — Thu, 02 Apr 2020 09:02:36 +0000

Some of these books I’ve been meaning to read up on for while. I’ve intentionally avoided books teaching code, as they quickly go out of date, and there’s a ton of information online for that sort of thing anyway. I don’t get much time to read, but hopefully I can get some of these reading […]

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Web Development Side Projects to Practice Your Coding Chops

Jason M — Fri, 06 Mar 2020 10:00:52 +0000

Working actively on code is the best way to learn. I have a few web development side projects in my to do list which I thought I’d share. Pick a data API on a site and make a new interface for it There are literally tons of APIs to choose from, a quick google search […]

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