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Building My First App — JiffyCV

My first ever app — JiffyCV — is now in beta! Here’s the story about how it came to be, the approach I took to make it and what I’ve…

Dec 18, 2020

Building My First App — JiffyCV

Dec 18, 2020

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Finding the right user research platform when bootstrapping your app idea

When you’re just starting out with your idea user research is really important to ensure success but which platform is best?

4d ago

4d ago

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Rendering a Direct Acyclic Graph with force-graph

During some experimentation I needed to render a DAG and found force-graph a really cool library for doing this!

Sep 1

Rendering a Direct Acyclic Graph with force-graph

Sep 1

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What I done did in August 2024

It’s been warm but it’s starting to get Autumn-y!

Aug 24

What I done did in August 2024

Aug 24

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Updating a SwiftUI view’s state on navigating back

Aug 17

Aug 17

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Launching a Sheet from a NavigationLink in SwiftUI

I’ve been exploring rewriting an existing React Native app in SwiftUI and learning how to reduce the levels of nested navigation

Aug 9

Launching a Sheet from a NavigationLink in SwiftUI

Aug 9

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Integration testing an Appwrite backed GraphQL server

Integration testing is a key technique for managing risk but how can you integration test your services backed by Appwrite?

Aug 4

Integration testing an Appwrite backed GraphQL server

Aug 4

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What I done did in July 2024

I’m back writing a weekly blog which means these monthly wrap ups are coming back too.

Jul 27

What I done did in July 2024

Jul 27

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What I came to realise about myself during my (mostly) successful trip to New Zealand

I went to New Zealand to see the Southern Lights and while I failed to do that I found out a lot about myself

Jul 20

What I came to realise about myself during my (mostly) successful trip to New Zealand

Jul 20

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Recreating the Pokémon Fire Red & Leaf Green Items Screen with CSS Scroll Timeline Animations

I loved the item screen in Pokemon Fire Red as a kid. So in order to show off CSS scroll timelines I recreated it

Jul 14

Recreating the Pokémon Fire Red & Leaf Green Items Screen with CSS Scroll Timeline Animations

Jul 14

Colin Wren

Colin Wren

Currently building reciprocal.dev. Interested in building shared understanding, Automated Testing, Dev practises, Metal, Chiptune. All views my own.

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