Michael - Irish Software Developer based in Barcelona.

I developed a basic service to reinforce my Spanish learning regularly, which generates Spanish homework and then emails it to me every two days.

Its coming up on 2 years since I moved to Barcelona. It has been the hardest thing I've taken on as I've tackled hurdles after hurdles.

I finally sat down to tackle the huge bundle size of this site. Embarrassingly it was 23mb after building but I knew who the culprit was.

I added Storybook to my personal site, not because I needed it, but because it's a great way to test and visualize components. Overkill for one dev, but perfect for experimentation.

Testing just shouldn't be skipped on. It confirms your inner thinking, and gives peace of mind when deploying new changes, especially when interacting with codebases that are considered legacy code.

In Spanish, Memo means Silly - because it would be silly not to try optimize your code...?

Exploring how to execute multiple tasks with concurrency, parallelism, and multitasking.

A music discovery application I used became a paid service. I was annoyed but understood the developer's decision. I decided, out of spite more than anything, to build my own version of the using the Spotify API.

Using Python and pyinstaller, I created a really simple executable to get the track setlist from a .txt file from Rekordbox after recording a mix.

I recently built a REST API using Go, mostly because I wanted to scrape my favourite films from my Letterboxd account and save them for use on my site.

SCSS was my first choice to styling when I first starting web design. It's pretty good for styling, but as projects got bigger, I looked elsewhere.

Managing dependencies across multiple repositories can be challenging and so so time-consuming. How did I speed up 'shared-components' between packages?

Oops, I did it. I committed sensitive API data to my own Github. All good, I learned how to remove it. How did I remove the commits and fix this issue?

On the blog page, you can see what I'm currently listening to and what my top tracks are on Spotify. Here, I just go through briefly how I set it all up.

A 4th Year project I completed in 2021 focused on a concurrent client/ server model using a clean interface and backend, witth a short video walkthrough.

Showcasing artists, releases, and club nights in the experimental dance music world.

I never got access to the elusive Letterboxd API, so I forked and expanded a CLI project that returned common movies from Letterboxd users watchlists.