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This is where I dump a whole lot of random, incoherent thoughts as well as notes that I use for reference in either my job or my hobbies

Building a quick and easy retrospective tool for teams who value simplicity

The Idea Since running a team and having to use off the shelf Retrospective products I’ve dreamt of building my own. Not only because I thought it would be interesting to do, but because everything on the market, at least in my mind, wasn’t great. What I wanted was something simple, easy setup, easy sharing with just a link and a simple User Interface with none of the bells and whistles other solutions have. Just a board, adjustable columns and cards and nothing else. ...

April 24, 2025 Â· 4 min Â· 774 words Â· Rob Dunn

My New Junior Developer Onboarding Project and Process

Overview Recently I’ve started onboarding Junior Full Stack devs using a beginner Project. Here is why I made that change, as well as what the project consists of and its outcomes What we did before, and why change? Before I explore why I’m now using this as an onboarding method I’ll explain what we were doing before. Throwing them into the beep end. That’s not something I’d recommend but traditionally we would spend a day going over the company, the next day going over some of the technology we are currently implementing. Getting them access to all the repos and tools and then saying “go and explore”. ...

April 23, 2025 Â· 6 min Â· 1201 words Â· Rob Dunn

Running NX with Frontend and API Proxied

Overview NX is a great tool to manage Mono-repos. I’ve been using it for near on 5 years in my professional life and around about the same on a number of side projects. One of the first things I set up in any new mono-repo is the proxying of API requests through the front-end to the API running in parallel. With NX this is super easy and makes life simple as you only have to run one command and get both stacks running all at the same time. ...

November 1, 2024 Â· 4 min Â· 702 words Â· Rob Dunn

Obsidian Folder Structure

Thanks to Obsidian being simple Markdown files on the file system, organising through folders (and the through tags and front-matter) is super easy to implement and change later (this is key as you will always want to reorganise when you find a better way) In this post I want to go over a quick overview of each of my folders in my personal vault with a bit of an explanation as to what they do and what is included in there ...

October 29, 2024 Â· 6 min Â· 1215 words Â· Rob Dunn

Obsidian Daily Note Template

I use Obsidian as my note taking / organisational tool. I’ve been using it for a while now and have found it to be very useful. I’ve created a template that I use for all of my daily notes. It’s not perfect but it works well enough for me. Sections Front Matter The “Frontmatter” in my daily notes is super simple, All I need if for is to keep track of my daily mood and productivity level. ...

October 18, 2024 Â· 4 min Â· 829 words Â· Rob Dunn