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AboutSelf-employed designer/developer. From typography and pre-press to front-end and SVG animation. Always wanted to be a coder but was scared off at a young age by a book on Atari machine language. Had nobody to tell me that wasn't the whole story.
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SkillsLAMP stack web dev, graphic design, print production. Loves: SVG, JS, animation, PHP, coding standards, Plesk. Wants to know: WebGL, WebMIDI, Laravel.
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LocationIreland
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Joined devRant on 8/9/2016
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!rant
It's my nephew's 12th birthday next week and I'd like to get a rasp pi kit with RetroPie and the NES controllers. Are there any decent UK suppliers that you know of? I've spent the morning looking and it's a mixed bag.4 -
My parents didn't really care what I was doing, they were just happy I wasn't hanging around street corners.
They were also kind enough to buy me a computer or peripherals at Christmas. My sisters were not impressed with their Barbie houses and Sylvanian Families! 😂
Sisters: "Why does he get a computer?"
Mum: "Cos he doesn't ask for new clothes all year!"3 -
You folks seen this yet? Looks like one to watch!
A cartoon intro to Redux
https://code-cartoons.com/a-cartoon...1 -
Happy 5th Birthday CoderDojo 🎉😊
'You're opening doors for them' - The community that encourages kids to code is five today
http://jrnl.ie/2980639 -
In my first job I was trained by an old-school typographer who made the transition from lead to DTP.
Now, 20 years later, whenever I see bad kerning I hear his voice saying "You could drive a bus through that!".
Someday I hope to have my voice ringing through the ages 😁10 -
!rant
For the brave souls among you... Email On Acid have made an excellent PDF guide on CSS animation in email.
No, that's not a typo! 😮💥
https://emailonacid.com/images/...3 -
When people post non-issues on GitHub issues 😡
Issue: "How do I...?"
Issue: "Nevermind, figured it out!"
Issue: Closed.3 -
!rant
I have an old laptop with a built-in floppy drive which I want to use to recover data from a bunch of AtariST Double Density disks.
Can anyone recommend a Linux distro and package for getting the job done? This is the only job it needs to do before being donated to a museum ;)5 -
A study needs to be done on the therapeutic effects of devRant. My gf tells me I grin like an idiot much more these days 😅4
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So I was wondering... What's the worst burn you've seen from an unknown angry dev that you had to clean up?
A recent one of mine was a client in need with nuked hosting, nuked domain records, no backups, no access to any accounts and the business set to permanently closed on Google.
I thought that last one was a nice touch!1 -
!rant
Having a day where everything hits the fan but I'm on top of it all.
I really do love this line of work 😊 -
My girlfriend says to me:
"Any other girlfriend would be suspicious why you're smiling and laughing into your phone."
I showed her devRant, she gets ['hip','hip'] 😊 -
Client: After two weeks of silence. "Are we ready to launch?"
Me: "Yeah, sure!" Forgetting there's a half-finished refactor from two weeks ago.
*spends an hour cowboy coding php in Plesk editor before IT guy updates DNS* -
Hot and humid in my countryside office. I swear if one more fly dive-bombs me then lands on my screen I'm going to burst 😡😤2
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When the docs are on a different Pompey Pirates floppy that you didn't copy at the monthly computer club.1
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Transactional emails. What do you use as the outgoing email address for your app/website?
I'm so bored with the usual suspects. Maybe...
shazbot@
major_tom@
nanu_nanu@
Hmm...2 -
It's oddly comforting to see others on devRant also hammering away at some code on a Saturday afternoon. Makes me feel almost normal :)1
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My first machine with a primary partition on SSD and it restarts so fast I had a nerd-gasm!
SSD all the things!!!4 -
Client: On the website, the thing won't open when I click on it.
Me: Oh right, what browser are you using?
Client: The one you sent me.
Me: *nrgh*