Javascript web frameworks like React.js and Vue.js have made the building of dynamic web applications easier than ever, but deployment steps often leave newer developers scratching their heads. …

Inspired by this: https://twitter.com/Cydster61/status/1019929901393154052 — Hey Jude, go make it bad Take a sad song, don’t make it better Remember don’t let her into your heart Then you won’t start to make it better Hey Jude, go be afraid You weren’t made to go out and get her The minute you let her under your skin Then you’ll…

Vue.js + some basic javascript, html and css. live here: https://editor.alhinds.com/ — If you’ve ever used GitHub, you’re likely to have used its text editor. Maybe you cooked up a simple gist, or perhaps you made a simple change to an existing commit — or maybe that’s how you write all your code. What’s interesting about the editor, and for the matter…

Well, hello! So I understand you’re looking to make a website? Well, great. It’s super easy, it’s just a sprinkle of HTML, CSS, and JS and you’re done! Well sort of.. you must realise that these are really only the basic tools. And only scrubs code directly with vanilla CSS…

Why the building blocks of the web remain the core drivers of success in the modern web — The modern web is a daunting place for the novice. Gone are the days when good ole’ HTML, CSS and PHP would get you by. This is the era of progressive web applications, there’s a whole industry spawned called frontend engineering, security has become a thing, and browsers have become…

My journey properly wading into the web. — There’s an old meme that surfaced on my facebook feed (above) not so long ago that basically sums up how (many) people perceive web development. It’s funny in that it probably should be (and who knows — maybe someday will) just that easy. Part of this cognitive dissonance stems, I…

How I made Tank Hunter, a simple desktop HTML Canvas game. — Preface: I began this with very basic html, and css knowledge and a vague understanding of javascript. Why do I like tanks? I have NFI, but I do and when I needed an idea to make a game just before the second year uni-break, I thought the idea of a…

A deck of cards for a game had a lot of student’s scratching their head — even when the appropriate data structures had been drilled into them for the previous few weeks. The problem here was connecting the dots. There are many correct possible ideas here, and that in itself is intimidating for newcomers. What does a deck need to do? An abstracted deck should hold a number of cards. It should be simple to add and remove cards from the deck

I’ve been using Atlassian’s git repository software ‘BitBucket’ for quite some time but have only recently started experimenting with their pipelines feature, and it’s pretty damn impressive. tl;dr Pipelines are not just novelty, they’re free*, and allow for some pretty cool functionality to do with your software’s build status. …