Blog
My developer life and the story of how I'm improving and many other things
Project
Productsbolt tests have been added. Good stuff
Thought adding tests would be problematic and it was for a day. Sleep helped and it helped a lot!
Alan Reid
08/01/2026 - 7 min read
Project
Productsbolt needs tests
I have absolutely no idea what the best model is for my constraints. Let's test that
Alan Reid
06/01/2026 - 3 min read
Development
Okay, I have a plan
Didn't take long to figure out what to do, but I've got a small plan I'll get sorted!
Alan Reid
06/01/2026 - 6 min read
Development
2026. Times Flies
It would be an understatement to say things have changed. I'd like to talk about it
Alan Reid
05/01/2026 - 5 min read
Development
The worker microservice is made!
After a good bit of effort and head-banging, the worker works as intended. WOO HOO
Alan Reid
23/07/2023 - 3 min read
Development
Factsbolt has been started!
We've got a wee start. Now it's about to get it working as soon as possible!
Alan Reid
21/07/2023 - 3 min read
Development
Factsbolt, a site which takes a video and gives us facts!
I'm getting bored of having to second guess Youtube shorts/videos. Let's make something for this!
Alan Reid
20/07/2023 - 3 min read
Learning
From Slovenia to Croatia
I said I would and I did it. I returned back to Croatia and it was proper fantastic
Alan Reid
08/07/2023 - 3 min read
Development
I'm at Eindhoven for JS Eindhoven
One year ago, I didn't think this would be the craic but here we are. Good hot chocolate here.
Alan Reid
18/01/2023 - 4 min read
Development
Two months at Shockbyte
It's crazy how fast two months go. I'm surprised it's already been this long at Shockbyte
Alan Reid
03/12/2022 - 5 min read
Development
I got a job! Cheers Shockbyte
I've always wanted to call some place my workplace as a developer and I got it. Shockbyte has given me a chance to prove myself.
Alan Reid
29/10/2022 - 9 min read
Learning
I'm changing to a new person
I've becoming a different person, which is the first time in many of many of years. It's weird
Alan Reid
01/10/2022 - 5 min read
Project
Skyscanner Plus has dynamic scaling
One of the harder things to do, I eventually got Skyscanner Plus to play nicely with scaling
Alan Reid
15/09/2022 - 4 min read
Project
Skyscanner Plus is on AWS
I got Skyscanner Plus to work on AWS and it wasn't as hard as I thought it would be!
Alan Reid
28/08/2022 - 3 min read
Development
Making a choice, which direction to go
It's weird how one day, you think you've made the right plan but the next, it seems so daft.
Alan Reid
25/08/2022 - 6 min read
Development
I needed a small break
As much as I want to keep grinding when it comes to development, I had to take a break.
Alan Reid
24/08/2022 - 1 min read
Development
Micro Posts added!
I wanted a quick way to add micro blog posts to this site, so I added a test!
Alan Reid
19/08/2022 - 1 min read
Learning
It's Typescript time. Love you JS
It's a little mountain to climb but slowly and surely, I do see the utility in Typescript.
Alan Reid
18/08/2022 - 3 min read
Development
Adding Tests to the site!
A wee test here and there keeps the wee bugs at bay. It's certainly made sure the builds are a lot more trustworthy.
Alan Reid
16/08/2022 - 2 min read
Development
Typescript and Project Section Update
It's Typescript time. By the end of the week, this website will be fully Typescript ready. We've also added a project section.
Alan Reid
15/08/2022 - 3 min read
Learning
GitHub Issues: Project Manager
I'm either going to have to learn either JIRA or GitHub Issues: Project Manager. So I decided to go with GitHub Issues!
Alan Reid
10/08/2022 - 2 min read
Learning
AWS Time
It's too good a Cloud Infrastructure not utilise upon. So let's beat the beast.
Alan Reid
09/08/2022 - 2 min read
Development
Let use this as my blogging platform
I tried to blog on hashnode, Medium and Dev and I just thought, why not blog on my own blog, so that's what I'm going to do!
Alan Reid
06/08/2022 - 4 min read
Project
Betting bot for esports
With the growth of esports, betting has become a major player. As betting optimisation is being built on, I feel there's a small chance to play the odds.
Alan Reid
05/03/2022 - 4 min read
Learning
Fed up with not knowing NodeJS so I'm learning it
I've known about NodeJS since probably 2014. Eight years later, I'm only getting started with it. Better late than never.
Alan Reid
23/02/2022 - 3 min read
Learning
Learning about webscrapping
NextJS is awesome but I wanted to learn something for the backend. Web scrapping seemed interested so I'm going to give that a go.
Alan Reid
16/02/2022 - 2 min read
Development
The site is coming together nicely
I've added a couple of pages to the site but at this point, the site is ready to be used!
Alan Reid
13/02/2022 - 2 min readFollow my updates per month
Once per month, I'll post an update on this website which I'll talk about what exactly I've done for the month, how I've improved and how you can do that yourself.