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Using two spaces in Rust projects with rustfmt
Configure your formatter
Fun recent Rust articles
Learn you a Rust for great good
Moving from Gatsby to Astro
Picking up a new framework for (another) site rewrite
Advent of Code 2025, day 7: Dynamic programming
Programming, but dynamically
LLMs: what are they actually good for?
Let's look at their characteristics
Advent of Code 2025, day 3: Monotonic stacks
Having fun with data structures
Iterators and lazy arrays
Comparing the new lazy iterator approach with standard arrays functions
Procedural art with Rust
Using Rust to create SVG art via CLI and web, inspired by Advent of Code.
Creating a chord diagram generator
How I made a guitar chord generator app
Static file paths with Actix
Host HTML and JS files
Use prebuilt rooms with Rust macros for more interesting procedural dungeons
Use pre-designed rooms to generate more interesting dungeons.
Fixing an Adsense 'Valuable inventory No content' error
How to fix Adsense's mysterious error
Moving to Gatsby (and Rust)
Porting my site from Django to a static site with Rust for dynamic bits
Enable class properties in Gatsby
Get fun things like arrow functions in classes.
Creating authentication middleware for Actix API
Add an authentication middleware layer to Actix so routes can be automatically protected
Integrate Squidex with Gatsby, and join Graphql queries with foreign keys
How we linked separate schemas together in Gatsby
Procedural level generation using Binary Space Partitioning in Rust
Place rooms around a level using binary space partitions. Part 3.
Drawing tilemaps with Rust and Cairo
Draw the procedurally-generated map. Part 2.
Procedural level generation with Rust
Create a randomised dungeon-crawler map. Part 1.
Introducing Rust to our development workflow
Creating a Webpack plugin with Rust.
Made With React Native interview
Fun times with React Native.
Mock ES6 imports and dependencies for testing in Jest
Mocking ES6 imports is really useful for being able to test modules.
Set up proxy on Android devices and Emulators
Configure Android devices to connect to your local machine to test sites or apps.
Open iOS simulator to test a website
Testing time
Access Docker sites from IE virtual machines
How many versions of IE do you want?
Debug React Native Android code
Link Android Studio to your React Native app.
Using async and await with React and Redux
Waiting around
Vanilla JS equivalent of common jQuery functions
Props, parents, classes and append equivalents.
Progressive web-app with Webpack and React
Offline first
React context require contextType
This space left empty
52 project ideas to learn a new programming language
Make your own fun
Rust snippet - import crate in module
Declare your externals
Making Get On With It, a Pomodoro and Tabata timer
A React-based productivity app.
Proxy API calls for local development
Proxy and redirect fun
Writing a basic JSON response web server in Rust using Iron
Getting the metal out
Making the random number picker site
Randomiser site write up
Detect clicks outside an element with React components
Close popups
Read headers in Javascript from a CORS request
Cor blimey
Using Adsense with React
Update Google's code
Devlog - Design Decisions
Runner devlog part 4
Building asciiPicture.com
Create a text version of an image in your browser.
Improving React performance by optimising components
Speeding up React
Getting to the bottom of a Rust bug
Chasing bugs around
Upgrading a static site to use HTTP/2
Adding HTTP2 support to Nginx
Mocking ES6 imports for tests
Testing can be fun too
Logging client Javascript errors
Send your errors away
Creating React components with ES6 classes
ES6: so hot right now
React Inline Styles
All about style
Devlog - Shaders, sound and standalone
Runner devlog part 3