American Express (Amex) Enable All Offers Bookmarklet

The American Express website has many cashback ‘offers’ available. These offers allow you to gain cashback if you spend a certain amount in a shop.

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Author's profile picture Niall Bunting on bookmarklet, tips, amex, and lifehack

Commake - v0.1.0

Commake (Common Makefile) is a standardised wrapper for your projects commands. Making it easy to jump between projects and get them into a running state.

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Author's profile picture Niall Bunting

S&P 500 denominated in Bitcoin

This chart shows the price of the S&P 500 priced in Bitcoin. The historical pricing data goes back to 2011. This chart is updated on weekdays with the daily data.

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Author's profile picture Niall Bunting on finance, chart, snp500, denominated, priced, and bitcoin

Match the design of input fields to look like Select2 fields

Whilst creating a mixed form, there were fields on a form that did not match the default style of a Select2 input. I created this bit of CSS that creates a style that can be applied to the other fields so they match. Feel free to use this code.

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Author's profile picture Niall Bunting on select2, design, and css

Small Startups - Guest Post Directory

This is the story of a start-up delivered at a blistering pace, one weekend in fact.

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Author's profile picture Niall Bunting on small, start, ups, guest, post, and directory

Multidirectional s**t umbrellas

The proverbial shit umbrella is explained described as protecting the team from the forces in management above the team. What about the other direction?

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Author's profile picture Niall Bunting on daily, multidirectional, and umbrellas

Delete that old story point estimate

I recommend deleting any estimates on tickets before refinement. The most common cases of this happening are old tickets that were previously refined and new tickets with an informal estimate.

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Author's profile picture Niall Bunting on daily, delete, old, and estimates

What happened to standardization?

Before the 70’s there were only a couple of ways to contact someone, the main two being either physically (post or just turning up at their house) and the landline. In the digital years the options seem to be endless, with major groups being: social networks, communication apps and even the workplace has instant messaging.

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Author's profile picture Niall Bunting on daily and standardization

Small Startups - TempPoint

Today I launched a small startup called TempPoint. Inspired by what I know about the book ‘$100 dollar startup’ (it’s in my “to read” list after reading this review), I have decided releasing a product a go.

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Author's profile picture Niall Bunting on daily, small, start, and ups

The temporary nature of digital

I found a relic, a paper Tate and Lyle coffee bag under a floorboard. That paper bag is older than me, it made me sit down and think about life for a few moments. Finding a paper bag is unlikely in the digital world as resources only a few years old have a habit of disappearing.

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Author's profile picture Niall Bunting on daily, temporary, and digital