Category: Web

I came across n8n.io as a Zapier alternative that is free if you load it onto your computer/server, or you can use their cloud service at https://www.n8n.cloud/, I’ll discuss this later. You can load it onto your own computer after loading Node.JS and I used VS Code terminal to run npm install n8n -g (

I have been watching this series by the Net Ninja. He does really comprehensive beginner tutorials and I was extremely impressed with his series on PWA’s. PWA’s can run offline by caching data in browser From what I can figure PWA’s are web pages that work offline by caching info in your browser- newer browsers

Amazon Web Services(AWS) have just released Honeycode (https://www.honeycode.aws/), to help businesses develop apps without code. It allows you to have 20 people in a team (to share apps) and 2,500 rows of data and as many apps as you want. It works on mobile phones through its free downloadable app that you need to be

This is great. I anm very excited about it. Virtual Box (VB) runs a virtual Operating System on your PC. So, on my Windows PC I can run iOS or Linux. So that is great. I have wanted to play in Linux but have not wanted to setup a server on some cloud as I

I lke GlideApps, they are cool. You can make some great apps with them. But you cannot access youtr phone’s sensors. So I thought, use App inventor to grab data from phone sensors, send it to google Sheets and then use GlideAppps to access the same google Sheets with that data to make a richer

I logged into Sanity.io using my Github account and there was a Project that I was interested in testing that I’d seen a video for which was the Kitchen Sink template, but noticed that there was also a Gatsby Template for a Blog post, so I thought I’d try that out instead: After selecting Blog

Trying to get a habndle on static sites, I’ve started a Gatsby & Hugo blog sites and now a barebones from the ground up using Next.js. This is a good tutorial to learn about dynamic pages and a static site so I’m going to focus on coding this, then head back to the Hugo site

This seems a practical tutorial to do. It does the basic things that yuou want, Create, Read, Update & Delete. He does a script upload for database populating, but I’m interested in using it as a web app for a to do list or project list. Github repository for code HERE. After downloading his code

Use gitgub to host your website is a free service that you can utilise as well as using Freenom to get a free domain name for the site instead of the github domain. To get the Custom domain secure you can use Cloudflare CDN. This is something that occurs when working on your own, you

There is a great series of videos on how to set up this project by the Net Ninja  (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4cUxeGkcC9iWstfXntcj8f-dFZ4UtlN3) The first video is: There is also a github repository with all the code here, you have to look at the branches to get the individual video lessons.  So from your VS Code terminal >git pull