digital ideas // analogue dreams
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making a creativity map in laravel
I started this project in the last couple of weeks of my software development course, while we were digging into Laravel. The arts charity I was working with at the time has a similar tool, but in the comms team we had started to daydream about streamlining it, integrating it with our CRM, and generally introducing more functionality. So this is a basic proof-of-concept project, inspired by those conversations, with the self-imposed constraint of using Laravel for both the front and back end, to cement and expand upon what I’d learnt during the course.
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three ways writing code is like writing theatre (and one way it’s not)
For the first three months of 2025, I joined a daily Zoom call with 11 other students and learned how to code. Our trainer took us through the basics of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, introduced us to React and Tailwind, then moved rapidly along to SQL, PHP, and OOP, before finishing up with the magic of Laravel. It was one of the most intense and brilliant three-month periods of my life.