The Cube
22 May, 2020
After months and months its finally done! My 6-sided 24,576 LED self-contained cube project is finally complete! Instead of writing a…
A Personal Update
11 March, 2020
This blog has been going for a long time and in the early days it was a mixture of Personal updates and technical updates. Lately tho its…
LED Matrix Toy
09 February, 2020
Ever since I built my own smart mirror back in 2018 I have been keen to do another hardware project... TLDR; This is what I ended up…
My Fenders Typescript Talk
14 January, 2020
Back in August 2019 I have a talk at the local Front End Web Developers (Fenders) meetup group here in Perth. Its taken them a little while…
Introducing - Howdy
30 December, 2019
A couple of months ago my Markd co-founder Brandon came up with an great idea for a new app, we mulled it over, ran a few experiments and…
Energy Hack 2019
19 November, 2019
Just a quick post on my recent attendance of the one-day hackathon "Energy Hack". Energy Hack Its been a while since I have done a hackathon…
Introducing BattleTabs
17 November, 2019
This one has been quite a while in the making but im proud to announce this innovative new game we have been working on. TLDR; History I…
Introducing - Post To Google Photos
01 November, 2019
Lately we (Markd Ltd) have been working on a few different projects, today we are announcing another of those projects; Post To Google…
Introducing - LinkedIn Notes
27 October, 2019
Lately we (Markd Ltd) have been working on a few different projects, today we are happy to announce one of those new projects, LinkedIn…
The Case of the Lost iPhone
15 October, 2019
Todays post is a little different from my usual technical or business related posts, its a tale of search and discovery.. TLDR; I was…
Chrome Extension Background Page & React Hooks useEffect Not Working
01 September, 2019
Its been a little while since I have done a pure tech focused blog post but I discovered an issue with React Hooks and Chrome Extensions for…
Markd - Import From LinkedIn
26 August, 2019
Just a quick update today about a new feature for Markd: Import from LinkedIn What? I mentioned in my last post that we were working on…
Markd - Import From Google Contacts
20 August, 2019
Its taken us a little while to get this right but we are proud to announce the latest feature for Markd: Import from Google Contacts. What…
New Markd Feature - Notes
08 June, 2019
Thick and fast on the heels of our last new feature Custom Fields today we are happy to announce our latest feature: Notes. TLDR; Why…
Markd - Custom Fields
30 May, 2019
Now we have our new designs in place for Markd things can start moving again on new features. This has been an oft-requested one, Custom…
Markd V3
17 May, 2019
Wow its taken a little longer than we would have liked but finally we have finally released the completely redesigned and rewritten Markd…
Migrating from Hexo to Gatsby
12 April, 2019
Its been almost 2 years since I had to change anything with my blog but unfortunately 2 years is a long time in web development, and my blog…
What Have I Been Up To In Feb?
27 February, 2019
Its been an adventurous month of travel, activities and hard work on our exciting new venture Markd. Trip to Europe Late Jan and early Feb I…
Farewell Bamboo - Hello Markd
14 January, 2019
So Friday marks what could be a very important day for me. It was my last day in the employ of Bamboo but was my first day in the employ of…
Tinkering With React Hooks and Chrome Extensions
27 December, 2018
I spent a few hours tinkering with the new (alpha release) version of React which includes the new React Hooks feature. I wanted to…