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By on Mar 27th, 2026 in Deployment, Typescript, Vercel

I build this little vercel project to test a few things. Project:https://gmd-assessment.vercel.app/ Github:https://github.com/micheleborn/gmd-assessment The Context This project was built as part of a Growth Marketing Designer assessment — a role that requires end-to-end ownership of landing pages, from design to deployment, with performance measured by conversion rate . But the brief came with a twist: […]

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Moving a Static Site Off Shared Hosting

By on Mar 10th, 2026 in Code, Deployment, DNS

I moved one of my projects off HostGator and onto Cloudflare this morning. Spoiler alert, it’s this one: https://hansonhotline.com Mostly after spending way too much time with support trying to resolve an SSL error. After a few conversations that went nowhere, it felt like the right moment to, as usual, take matters into my own […]

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HansonHotline.com (React + TypeScript)

By on Feb 23rd, 2026 in Code, React, Typescript

Today I designed, built, and deployed a full React application from scratch – not all content is up: https://hansonhotline.com The project was inspired by the band Hanson’s recent “pause” — something longtime fans fear may signal the end. Hanson has been a defining part of my life for over 20 years, and I spent much […]

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Drowning in Spam

By on Nov 27th, 2025 in Best Practices, Security

“When Your Friend’s WordPress Site Is Drowning in Spam (And You’re the “Tech Person”)“ Every now and then someone messages me with a classic WordPress emergency: “HELP. My site is getting 400 spam comments a day. What do I do?” And because I’m the designated “tech friend,” I obviously end up fixing it… for free… […]

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GDPR Notes

By on Feb 9th, 2025 in Best Practices

Back when I started, not only the front-end developer, the back-end developer, the UX designer and the UI designer was the same person, we also didn’t have the concept of GDPR. The concept of GDPR specifically did not exist in 1998. GDPR was introduced in 2016 and fully enforced in 2018. However, data protection laws […]

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Memory Game

By on Feb 5th, 2025 in Code, Javascript

As a part of a JS course that I bought a long time ago from an influecer I really like ( Erick Wendel ) I completed a cute memory game! I created the images using AutoCAD for the vectors and Photoshop for colouring. The code is mainly JS and obviously the usual HTML/CSS. Enjoy! https://www.quietoode.com/memory-game

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Colorful WordPress Tags

By on Feb 19th, 2024 in Code

The goal today is to get the tags on my wordpress posts to look like this: My guidelines are: It’s a very simple php bit I added to my front-page.php file, because that’s where I wanted it to show. I think it looks very nice and organized and I’ve kept the default wordpress settings, meaning […]

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WordPress Custom Header/Footer

By on Oct 12th, 2023 in Code

By default, our wordpress themes will pull the file header.php and place it at the top of all of our pages. This is a basic WordPress template structure: Now, for my portfolio page – for example – I may want the header to be different. This requires 2 steps: Create a header-portfolio.php file Create a […]

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Github Page

By on Oct 12th, 2023 in Code

It is still possible to host a personal website/portfolio on GitHub Pages that is publicly accessible at username.github.io. This feature has been and continues to be popular among developers and other GitHub users. I am only ever on github once in a blue moon. However, I don’t like it one bit when my user page […]

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GitHub profile README

By on Oct 1st, 2023 in Code

1. Set Up: 2. Editing Content: 3. Viewing Changes: Go to your GitHub profile by clicking on your profile picture on the top right corner and selecting “Your profile”. You’ll see the content of the README.md displayed on your profile. For both GitHub Pages and GitHub profile README, you can also use git commands (clone, commit, push, etc.) to […]

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