Hey Hashnode :) My name is Simon, I'm primarily a full stack .NET developer by day and NodeJS, ReactJS developer by night!
I Am Not A Woman In Tech... As some of you may or may not have realised, I am not actually a woman in tech... nor am I a woman at all! I can hear the shock from here. But I think it's time that we start celebrating and normalising women in tech roles...
I Like To KISS If you have read any of my other blog posts, you'll know I like to keep things simple stupid (KISS) and get straight to the point. Flexbox is essentially a way that allows a container to best fill the space available. The rest of the b...
Functional Programming Background Functional programming is a programming paradigm that avoids shared state, mutability and side effects; this is done by using pure functions. Because functional programming aims to avoid side effects and mutability i...
Yesterday, I was having a little chat with a friend on Twitter about creating HTML templates; this is something I'd looked at doing before but I wasn't able to provide the level of customizability that I would have liked. I have been trying to aim my...
A Small list of free APIs for your next project! Just a quick list of fun and free APIs that you can use for your next web development project. Poke API - Access all pokemon data including characters, sprites, moves, stats and more! Bored API - Gene...
What Am I On About? Let's get straight to the point. Test Driven Development or TDD for short, is an approach to software development where unit tests drive the design and development of the code; with TDD, tests are written and implemented before an...
My Computer Background Ever since I knew what a computer was, I was obsessed. Video games, games on the internet, videos, Minesweeper, anything you could do on a computer I was a fan of. Whenever anyone in my family had a problem with their computer,...
Recently I delved into the unknown and started reading and learning about Web3 and blockchain; this is the latest trend circling around Twitter so my interest was peaked 👀 Web3 But what on earth is Web3? and what is blockchain for that matter? Let's...
