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How To Build an Effective Buy Button for Your Website

The ‘Buy’ button is the most important button on your website. Here’s the simplest way to create a visually appealing button so customers can start purchasing your product.

Published 30 Nov 2024 · 6 min read · Tom Gregory

Why I’m Moving My Operations to America

In software, simplicity is key. Follow these five strategies to make sure complexity doesn’t sneak in the back door..

Published 28 Nov 2024 · 5 min read · Tom Gregory

I Almost Quit Coding Until I Discovered This

Why every developer must build their own software project at least once.

Published 21 Nov 2024 · 6 min read · Tom Gregory

Most Developers Can't Build an App in a Month—I Built This One in Just 7 Days

Ever since I realised I can use existing skills to launch my own software, my mission has been to build as many projects as possible. So I set myself the goal of building project #3 in just 7 days.

Published 12 Nov 2024 · 12 min read · Tom Gregory

Building Software Got So Easy That Anyone Can Do It

I can’t believe how insanely easy it is to build software today. I just spent the morning “writing code” without actually writing any code. Almost everything was copy and pasted from ChatGPT, stitched together, and tweaked. Only when absolutely necessary do I browse official documentation. Normally a bot gives me the exact code I’m looking for. There used to be technical tasks so far out of my comfort zone that I never considered attempting them....

Published 1 Nov 2024 · 2 min read · Tom Gregory

How To Deploy Nuxt to AWS Lambda

Nuxt’s default deployment mode is as a continuously running Node.js server. That’s a problem for developers who prefer cost-efficient serverless technologies like AWS Lambda.

Published 29 Oct 2024 · 10 min read · Tom Gregory

The Only Time I Ever Received a Cheque From America

I made money with a computer for the first time when I was 14. As a kid, I was obsessed with the internet. Weeks after installing an app that displayed ads in the browser, a cheque arrived by post for eighteen cold hard dollars. But for years after that I remained closed to the possibility of making a living online. I was writing Java code to help business owners realise their dreams....

Published 18 Oct 2024 · 3 min read · Tom Gregory

Why Senior Developers Must Write Their Own Rulebook

For the longest time, I was a stickler for the rules. In another life I could’ve been a parking warden—slapping tickets on windscreens with a smile. As a software developer, I once landed the perfect job for a rules enthusiast, at an “Agile” software development consultancy. Agile is an approach to building software that adapts to projects where the goalposts are constantly moving. I spent 2 weeks at the company’s India offices, learning the rules of Agile....

Published 20 Sep 2024 · 3 min read · Tom Gregory