One of the annoying quirks of writing HTML inside of a javascript file is that, by default, it doesn’t recognise that you’re actually writing HTML. In VS Code, this can be fixed by opening your settings.json and adding this option: Oh happy days!
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An SSL certificate provides a secure connection between your website and the visitor’s browser. All data transmitted is encrypted and protected from eavesdropping and tampering. Wamp doesn’t come with it enabled out of the box, so here’s how to set it up. This article assumes you already have Wamp up and running. Enabling https in […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Atom is a favourite text editor of choice for coding. I spent a long time with sublime text, until I bit the bullet to try something new. Obviously with all the extra new features, and nicer way to handle customisations and so on, I wanted to share some add-ons (known as packages) I use to […]
Like most people I’m a creature of habit, and I’ve always preferred to use firefox for web development. It’s understandable, considering it was released before Chrome (firefox first released 2002 – compared to Chrome in 2008), and it was a much better alternative to Internet Explorer at the time. Yeh, I’m somewhat of a veteran […]
This article looks how to test for bugs during web development, and whilst testing a website for bugs during the build process. I look at some of the things I’ve done in the places I’ve worked. This is primarily aimed at front end development, but I guess it could also apply to some back end […]
Whilst on your development career path, you’ll no doubt work on websites that have been built by others. Some might use front end frameworks like bootstrap. Others might be completely bespoke. Your knowledge of one framework may be better than another. Either way, somewhere you’ll end up thinking “how on earth can I work with […]