Desktop GUIs for Web Developers

Over the past few years I’ve become more interested in making desktop applications. For some context, I’m a web developer with around 15 years of experience. I mostly work with Laravel and Vue.JS but I have dabbled in a whole heap of other languages and frameworks.

Building small desktop apps with Ember.js and Tauri

I recently played around with Tauri, a toolkit for development desktop apps with web technologies. Here's how I got it working with an Ember.js application.

New website for 2021

As is customary for web developer blogs, I spend more time building the website than I do blogging.

My first (and worst) Rust program

I've been looking for an excuse to try out Rust for a while and decided to write a simple CLI to help split grocery costs between my partner and myself.

How to deploy a Crystal Lucky application with Dokku on Ubuntu 18.04

This tutorial will show how to set up an app written in the Crystal web framework Lucky with Dokku on Ubuntu 18.04.

Replicating the MacOS Search TextField in SwiftUI

I wanted to add a search text field to a MacOS app that I'm working on and soon discovered it's not available in SwiftUI (as off 5.1). I've put together a quick replication which mostly works, but unfortunately involves some hackiness.

Lessons learned and notes from my first ReasonML/ReasonReact app

I recently released a side project, RSync Command Generator. This is a simple GUI for generating rsync commands for the command line.

Making an Electron App with Ember JS Part #4: Windows

This is part four in the series of blog posts “Making an Electron App with Ember JS” where I go over how I built my app Snipline for the web, Mac, Windows, and Linux.

Deploying a CraftCMS website with Dokku

I recently set up my personal blog with Craft CMS and wanted to host it on my own server. To make the most of my own servers, I tend to run web applications using Dokku. This blog post goes through the details of the process of doing so for your own projects.

Making an Electron App with Ember JS Part #2.5: MacOS Notarisation

This is a quick, cheeky part two-point-five of the blog post series “Making an Electron App with Ember JS” where I go over how I built my app Snipline for the web, Mac, Windows, and Linux.