mikevdv.dev

One of the nice things about having moved to Ghost as a CMS is that I now have access to categories - something I should have added to the site a long long time ago.

I've talked about doing a full rebuild of mikevdv.dev for years now.

A few years ago I excitedly launched a new personal project, called NotAnotherCV.

At the end of today, I will no longer work at PrettyLittleThing...

Many months back now, I excitedly wrote up an article about custom twitter embeds.

I write a large number of articles which I never end up publishing for various reasons.

Let me know if you've heard this one before.

While many junior Devs struggle with code reviews, both when performing and receiving them, I've found that even the more senior team members sometimes struggle with comments left on their code.

Yesterday around mid-day, mikevdv.dev was down.

Remember the days that Apple used to pitch itself as David in the David and Goliath stories?

I've been building a homelab in my free time over recent months (alongside improving my smart home and building the next iteration of this blog).

Embedded advertisements get a bad rap.

I had promised myself that I wouldn't do anything work related as I prepare for my birthday tomorrow but when something big drops, I can't exactly ignore it.

Those who have been following me for a while might know that while I'm no game developer, much like 90% of all other web devs, game development was my starting goal for getting into programming.

The general advice is that a computer should last between 2 and 4 years.