X, Bluesky, Mastodon and Threads: What do they tell us about the future of the web?Over the last few years, the social media landscape has become almost unrecognisable. The popularity of the once-dominant Facebook has continued to wain, Instagram is flooded with ads and sponsored posts, and TikTok has well and truly captured the at...Nov 25, 2024 · 8 min readblog.danielcranney.com
Why Technical Language is Annoying but NecessaryExtensibility. Asynchronous. Abstraction. Object-oriented. Encapsulation. Do you really know what these words mean? Or, perhaps more importantly, do you need to know what they mean? Before learning to code, I spent a decade working in education, prim...Nov 21, 2024 · 6 min readblog.danielcranney.com
10 Ways to Become a Better Developer Without Writing a Line of CodePractice is important. When learning something new, applying it in a practical context is a great way to cement learning and deepen understanding, but... it's not everything. As I've written about before in previous articles, learning is a complex pr...5STEJun 8, 2022 · 9 min readblog.danielcranney.com
I Learned to Code to Launch a SaaS. Here’s 10 Lessons I Learned Along the Way.For years before learning to code, I had ideas for websites, apps and projects. However, without having the skills to actually build them, that's all they were - ideas. In September 2020, several months after the pandemic first started, I did what ma...22TCSMay 23, 2022 · 12 min readblog.danielcranney.com
I Launched My First Product on Product Hunt. Here's What I LearnedLast week, I launched my very first product on Product Hunt! My product, ColorHub, helps developers to find the perfect colour palette for their next project. What started as a small-scale experimental project grew into something so much more. Eager ...12TKJNov 15, 2021 · 7 min readblog.danielcranney.com