One day recently I decided to try and make a cool thing. (DISCLAIMER: The author acknowledges the total subjectivity of cool and doesn’t care) I looked for some inspiration. I found some. I have always considered myself a bit of a generalist — a Jack of All Trades. This seemed…

Part 3: Storing on the DHT — In part 2 I described how I experimented with a single paged application for persisting and visualising personal habit information. In this post I will bring you up to date with the state of the project. How much did SOLID help to salvage? I spent some time learning about the distributed p2p architecture as implemented by Holochain…

Part 2: Multilayered architecture — (Part 1) While I was studying the LS185 course in the Launch School curriculum, I had the idea for my own web app — a habit tracker that would allow you to dissect patterns of behavior into their smallest constituent parts. …

Part 1: Beginnings — “It started with a liiiist” It started with a To-do list. The word(s?) lost all meaning… ‘Add To-do item’ ‘Delete To-do’ ‘Add new To-do list’ ‘To-do or not To-do…’ We’ve all been there; after all, it’s a canonical CRUD example. As somebody who was drilling code problems all day, it was a step up to…

A famous American illusionist recently floated into the sky. It was an impressive feat, but let us not forget how much (ahem..) groundwork was put in over the years prior. Standing (or hovering) on street corners, year-on-year, he focused on his fundamentals: creating objects from thin air. Let us become…

Disclaimer: The story I’m about to tell you may or may not have happened, but for reasons of libel (and since I’m not one to take on a giant multinational so early in my career), just to confirm, all dream content herein has no basis in reality… As part of…