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If you are new to the crypto space the concepts of decentralised finance can seem a bit overwhelming. There are so many new terms to try and understand, it can be challenging to see how everything fits together. I have been working in the traditional...

I have done quite a few website migrations over the years. My blog like many first started out on WordPress. After several attempts at optimisation, I ended up generating a static version of my WordPress website. On my static site generation journey...

If you have stumbled upon this article you have probably seen the term web3 being mentioned around the internet. Especially on Twitter at the moment it seems to be the latest buzzword. With all the hype around NFTs and crypto at the moment, a lot of ...

Do you remember that scene in Ready Player One, when IOI are showing what the future of the Oasis will look like once they take over? “We have determined that we’ll be able to fill 80% of the user’s display with advertising before inducing seizures”...

I have been a professional software developer for over a decade and I have been writing code for over 25 years. However, sometimes I still feel like a fraud. It turns out, I am not the only one that feels this way and they have a name for it, it is c...

It is rare in software development that you are building something in complete isolation from everything else. Generally, you are going to be making calls to other systems or components. If you are lucky you are building against an existing API that ...

Often when I am creating a new website, I want to see how it is going to look on an actual device like my phone or tablet. You can use Chrome Web Tools for mimicking a device but it isn’t the same as an actual phone. Chances are however that if you t...

Recently I went through the process of setting up Drone CI on my Raspberry Pi. The plan was to use my Raspberry Pi as a build server for this website as well as other projects. However, the Sharp image library that Gatsby uses to resize images doesn’...

I have recently been looking into AWS Step Functions. For those not familiar with them, Step Functions are Amazon’s way of providing a state machine as a service. If you have used AWS you have probably used Lambda functions. Lambda functions allow yo...

I use docker every day. All the applications I write at work or at home end up in docker containers. Most of the time though, I am only running docker-compose up so when I need to do something more complicated I have to look it up. So this post is a ...