I’ve started out my business less than a year ago, freelancing and now attempting to build out a few SaaS ideas, but I’ve been a homesteader for many years. Homesteading has been instrumental...
https://cindypotvin.com/my-philosophy-for-life-business-and-homesteading/
For my next project, I’ve been assembling a new technological stack to create micro SaaS apps quickly and cheaply before jumping in the code. I’ve not put it to the test yet, but I figured it...
https://cindypotvin.com/coming-up-with-with-my-new-micro-saas-technological-stack/
I’m starting an handmade business making socks! Why socks? Read on… I’ve been fascinated for a long time by the idea that a single machine can be an income stream and wanted to experiment ...
https://cindypotvin.com/cranking-out-a-new-project-making-socks/
Once you’ve reached the point where you’re a proficient programmer with a good understanding of a useful tech stack, you’re now faced with the sisyphean task of Keeping Up with New Tech. Po...
After quite a bit of pondering, writing and editing, I shipped the Learning as a Software Developer book last week. The whole process took about 6 months to complete, so I had time to experiment ...
During the summer, I usually spend a lot less time working on the computer. I’m outside instead, taking advantage of the short Canadian summer to garden and soak up sun while it lasts. When I d...
https://cindypotvin.com/getting-over-myself-and-doing-things-the-easy-way/
When working on a project, the temptation is strong to make everything perfect before showing it to the world, or even just to your co-workers. You know each and every line of code you wrote, but...
I wanted to start the real code for my side project by making a small skeleton of the project in ASP.NET MVC. This skeleton includes a basic form to create an event, which will be the starting po...
https://cindypotvin.com/using-the-jquery-ui-datepicker-with-asp-net-mvc/
I’m not the most minimalist person in real life: I always have a ton of things going on, be it gardening, cooking, crafting or coding projects. This is a pretty common plight for a programmer s...
I started looking at JavaScript frameworks to see if I could find something interesting for my event scheduling project. I’m looking to use them to help me show the schedule itself: when a sess...
https://cindypotvin.com/javascript-framework-for-my-project/