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The giga Linux monster

Should Have Used Linux

It’s come to pass – the biggest single IT failure in history, and it was all the fault of Microsoft Windows botched updates!!! It’s not necessarily bad news though: Hopefully this will dampen enthusiasm for total tech reliance, especially for…

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Cold Turkey Review

Cold Turkey is promoted as “The Toughest Website Blocker on the Internet”. Given that many of us (such as myself) have a problem with spending too much time on sites like Youtube I thought I would give it a try.…

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Online Star Map

This is my most complete Full Stack project so far, and required applying knowledge and experience from many domains. I can outline them as follows: At heart this program was an exercise in data visualisation. It uses a custom made…

An image from the project.

Procedural Art: Synthcity

This was another exercise in pure HTML All the complicated looking stuff, such as the ray lines, are procedurally generated. If you’re a maths person you can probably guess how I did it, if not, oh well. View here: …

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Buddha-Vision

Go here and have a look: The key to this visual effect is using the CSS pseudo-element ::before in order to set a background image to the text box, which is then convolved with the underlying image using the…

Palette Generator

I made this with front-end framework Vue.js, which is excellent by the way. Why A Palette Generator? In design it is frequently required to create a palette of colours to give a theme a coherent feel that conveys a certain…