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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.

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

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

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.

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....

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....

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....

New developers mistakenly believe software development is all about for loops and if statements. These are the fundamentals of writing code, but they’re only a small part of building software. I’ve mostly worked with Java and it always confuses me when people describe other languages as “faster to write” than Java. Do a few less characters make any difference? After working multiple Java jobs, I realised that what slows down delivering new features isn’t how fast you can write code....

I spent the last few years jumping between obsessions. First it was a software build tool. Then it was a cloud computing provider. Now it’s building my own web apps. I thought there was something wrong with me. Each obsession reached a peak, then something else stole my attention. Each time, I felt bad because I hadn’t become an “expert” in the topic before moving on. Now my perspective has changed....