Journal

To some, I am a developer, others, a designer. I take mockups from designers, and turn them into code. I also add new functionality to existing projects via code. These are things developers often do. I, however, have ever called myself a developer. To me, a developer is something quite different, with skills in areas …

I recently completed a game called Dark Souls 3. This game and the series of games that preceded it are known for their challenging difficulty. The game itself is something of a mix between an RPG and a platformer and an action game. It has many RPG elements, like character leveling and loot, but it …

Apple has released their new Macbook Pro, and the internet is abuzz with speculation about what it means for the future of the company. The biggest new addition is what they are calling the Touch Bar, a bar that runs the length of the keyboard and can dynamically display functionality based on which app is …

Readzi started life some time ago. The earliest initial mockups I could find were dated around the end of 2014. At that time I was wrapping up a fairly ambitious Cordova application written in Angular, and I wanted to build something of my own. My goal was to further develop some of my career related skills, …

Growing up I played a lot sports. I wasn’t aggressive enough to excel at any of them, but I played nearly all of them. In sports, the team is crucial. Multiple parties, working together for a common goal. Similarly in the realm of web development, teams tend to be quite important to the sucess of …

In order to try and exercise some of my skills and tinker with some new tools, I tasked myself with creating a new app in a very specific space. Right away, I had a big choice to make, would I build the app as a client of an existing platform, create my own,or have a standalone …

The perfect core of graphic design is simple, direct communication. Where this idea tends to breakdown is when marketing is also entered into the picture. With marketing one also needs to be novel and interesting in order to grab attention. In an attempt to differentiate, designers will use new colors, shapes, fonts, images and animations. …