Daniel Cranney

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Developer and Designer

Bristol, EnglandJoined May 2021

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I am a teacher, designer and developer on the road to full stack.

I love creatively solving problems by building web applications that look good and work well.

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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, 20248 min read

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Why Technical Language is Annoying but Necessary

Extensibility. 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, 20246 min read

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10 Ways to Become a Better Developer Without Writing a Line of Code

Practice 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...

Jun 8, 20229 min read

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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...

May 23, 202212 min read

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I Launched My First Product on Product Hunt. Here's What I Learned

Last 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 ...

Nov 15, 20217 min read

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X, Bluesky, Mastodon and Threads: What do they tell us about the future of the web?

Why Technical Language is Annoying but Necessary

10 Ways to Become a Better Developer Without Writing a Line of Code

I Learned to Code to Launch a SaaS. Here’s 10 Lessons I Learned Along the Way.

I Launched My First Product on Product Hunt. Here's What I Learned

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Daniel Cranney

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Daniel Cranney's blogs

Recently published

X, Bluesky, Mastodon and Threads: What do they tell us about the future of the web?

Why Technical Language is Annoying but Necessary

10 Ways to Become a Better Developer Without Writing a Line of Code

I Learned to Code to Launch a SaaS. Here’s 10 Lessons I Learned Along the Way.

I Launched My First Product on Product Hunt. Here's What I Learned