Web – Sandy McFadden

❤️ Web

I’m a big fan of the web. Have been for over 30 years. Though I didn’t have access to my own computer, or the internet, until the late 1990’s I still remember the first time going online. It was 1999 when I really became hooked. I was helping people at work get online and spendingContinue reading “❤️ Web”

Online Resume

Since I’ve started the search for the next chapter in my career I’ve been looking for two related but different types of roles. Either a Technical Support Engineer or Software Engineer. For the Technical Support Engineer I’m looking for a role where I’m helping developers use a product. Something that gets fairly technical. Looking atContinue reading “Online Resume”

How to deal with passwords

There are far too many places that we all have accounts for now, each one needing a password. Many people give up trying to remember passwords and pick one and use it, or some simple variation of it, for all the places they need one. This is a terrible and unsafe practice but very understandable.Continue reading “How to deal with passwords”

Introducing Spartan Stats

Spartan Stats is my first real open source project that I’m releasing. It is a web app which allows you to track a basketball teams stats in real time and has a live view for authorized visitors to see game stats and scores. This was an idea that came about near the beginning of Covid.Continue reading “Introducing Spartan Stats”

Learning React

Since my last update about my #photo-album-project I’ve been busy gathering up learning resources and have started in on some learning. A lot of the resources I’ve found are online. I’ve been scanning and bookmarking articles on MongoDB, Node.js, creating APIs and other things. A site I hadn’t come across before this is FreeCodeCamp. TheyContinue reading “Learning React”

Starting a new project

In the spirit of never stop learning I want to start a new project. It has been a long time since I learned anything new related to programming and I’ve been wanting to dust of the rust and build something for a while. Background It seems like every time I go to learn a newContinue reading “Starting a new project”