Jurn.io

Why I Am Reconsidering My Online Presence

Who inspires you? It's a question I've never given much thought but I managed to think of a couple of people when I was asked. As I thought more about

Business

Games Are the new Social Networks

Over the past decade, social media went from something that barely existed to being used across the world Facebook counts over 2.2 billion users. Instagram has more than 1 billion users and is rapidly growing. There is Snapchat, TikTok, Twitter, Pinterest and also

Projects

Launching My New Personal Website

I recently redesigned my personal website since I hadn't updated it on over 3 years. A lot had changed in that time so it was about time to create a new site. Here is the process I went through

Work

Screely

Screely is a tool I built to generate design mock-ups with a single click

Work

Personal Website

My personal website was built on Gatsby.js and Ghost CMS (headless)

Work

VloggingPro

VloggingPro is a website I started to learn about SEO

Work

TUI

A collection of the work I did for TUI when I worked there for two years

Work

Apple Watch Fitness Tracker

A case study I did when the first-generation Apple Watch was released

Digital Minimalism

Digital Minimalism: Declutter Your Devices and Your Mind

A lot of content about minimalism focusses on material possessions. But as we throw away items we never use and "Kon Mari" it up, there is one area

Programming

5 Things I Wish I Knew Before Learning How to Code

Learning to code is hard. You will feel overwhelmed. Confused. Frustrated. All three at the same time. You'll think about quitting. More than once. As a self-taught developer that knows

Programming

How to Backup Your Ubuntu VPS to Amazon S3

After moving some of my websites to my own servers, I needed to make sure I always have good back-ups. I already use the Vultr automatic backups but those backups

Projects

How I Built Screely and Got 31,000 Users the First Week

Recently, I launched a new side-project and was able to get 31,000 users in the first 7 days after launching. The website I built is called Screely. It allows you to instantly turn a screenshot into a beautiful design mockup, without the hassle of using Photoshop or Sketch templates.

Programming

How To Move Your Wordpress Site to a VPS

Many beginners start their first few websites on shared hosting. A good choice because you likely don't have the technical skills to setup and maintain your own private server, configure

Digital Minimalism

How I Cut Down on Mindless Browsing Time

Many websites now employ armies of psychologists, data scientists and behaviour experts that try to improve 'engagement'. Engagement sound pretty innocent until you realize there is a human on the