👱‍♂️ Tom Settle

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I am a self taught full stack developer with experience in Mobile, Web and PWA. I am an addict to learning and helping others learn. I currently work as a Technology Consultant and do freelance development on the side 😃

Backend Development

Secure RESTful API's built to receive, send, update, and delete data that can be integrated with a client-side website and a database to securely save your data.

Languages/Tech

Nodejs

Expressjs

MongoDB

GraphQL

Tools

GraphCMS (Headless CMS)

Mlab

OAuth

Postman

Frontend Development

I am a framework/library lover. Currently obsessed with React and Gatsby

Languages/Tech

React

HTML

CSS

JavaScript

Tools

VSCode

Git

Hyper

Bootstrap

Gatsby

Design

I love to dabble in design and keep my mind creative. I have a great appreciaiton for simple website/app design and bright colors

Design Specialties

UI/UX

Web

iOS/Android

Logos

Tools

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Xd

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My recent work

Wedding Website

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See more on Github

Recent blog posts

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Recently I have been building a new site similar to a blog-style site (more of a news site), and am of course using Gatsby and then switching my CMS to the more popular Contentful. I was able to easily set up all the content and pull it into front-end, but my site was performing poorly on the lighthouse audit because all my images where being dynamically loaded directing into a `<img src={}/>.`...

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Nowadays basic CRUD functionality is used in basically every application on the web. Most know how easy it is to store basic data types in databases, but with the more apps, I have built the more I have seen how prevalent media types are in database storage and how most apps could put use to them. So let's look at how we can store a single image or multiple images in a database and then retrieve them to display...

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Some may know that cycling has been a huge passion of mine for the last 4 or so years of my life. This past summer I got the incredible opportunity to travel to Europe for a month and I planned it to run into the first two stages of the Tour de France in Brussels, Belgium...

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