Creating a PWA 📲 This isn’t another one of my “ in 25 minutes ” articles - it actually took about 5! It’ll take you less to read it. What is a Progressive Web App? I once gave a presentation on progressive web apps in Budapest, Hungary and Stoke,…
Re-randomising the article randomiser 👨🏼💻 In the previous article, “ Building an article randomiser ”, I built a Random page on my blog which shows 3 random articles for a reader’s pleasure. At the time I quickly threw it together so I wanted to re…
Building every CRUD app with NextJS and Firebase 🤓 My week in the run-up to Christmas looked like this: Day 4 Refactoring the architecture Not a great deal happened today: I removed duplicate/similar API calls and kept them in one place I tried som…
Building every CRUD app with NextJS and Firebase 🤓 Recently, I’ve been using NextJS and Firebase to build a few different things: Dive log/gear app Recipe website Restaurant & bar review app They all have pretty similar structure and operate …
Building every CRUD app with NextJS and Firebase 🤓 This article is derived from a presentation I gave at the front-end guild at my work with Booking.com . Recently, I’ve been using NextJS and Firebase to build a few different things: Dive log/…
Building every CRUD app with NextJS and Firebase 🤓 This article is derived from a presentation I gave at the front-end guild at my work with Booking.com . It’s part of a series of 5 (or 4, I’m not sure yet) articles explaining how I build the ba…
Problem: writer’s block 👨🏼💻 I didn’t know what to write about today, so I thought I’d re-share a random article from last month on social media instead. Then, I decided to build an article randomiser and share that instead. Problem solved Then , I …
And on the thirtieth day … 👨🏼💻 … I did the same as I had been doing for the last 29 days. Starting way back last year, on New Year’s Eve 2020, each day I’ve been building a new feature into this blog, “just in time” , at the point that I need the f…
Search and ye shall find 🔍 Throughout this month, I’ve been coding every day , building features “just in time” . I needed tags and categories when I’d written 5 articles, pagination when I had more than 10, and so on. As with every feature on th…
Read “Building an article search for my Gatsby blog” (3 minutes)
Pomodoro time again 🕓 I tried to build this in a Pomodoro’s worth of work - I’ve written previously about this time management technique in my article “ Intro to Pomodoro ” . I recently bought a new domain name to match my online handle: danfurz…
Read “Building a custom URL shortener in 25 minutes” (3 minutes)
Brace yourself 🤓 This one’s going to be nerdy. Yesterday I wrote about the last seven days of development and my process of tackling a small feature on this blog every day - as and when I need it, "just in time" . I struggled with the word to ti…
And on the seventh day … 👨🏼💻 … I did the same as I had been doing for the last 6 days. Starting way back last year, on New Year’s Eve 2020, each day I’ve been building a new feature into this blog, “just in time” , at the point that I need the feat…