Aidan Breen
Aidan Breen

Aidan Breen

I own http://apbsoftware.ie , a software development consultancy. I’m also a PhD student, musician and youtube creator.

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The Case for Self Hosting Your Blog

We are currently witnessing an internet paradigm shift — in reverse.

Feb 26, 2019 · 1 min read

Vivisection of OpenTable widget.

You may be familiar with OpenTable, a service built around restaurant bookings. One of their main features is an embeddable widget that…

Feb 6, 2019 · 6 min read

Applications as Configurations

Here’s a thought: “Most software applications consist of the same basic functions in different configurations”.

Jan 30, 2019 · 6 min read

Mapping out my side-projects

It turns out there’s a lot to learn by examining the cadence and variety of your side-projects…

Dec 7, 2018 · 4 min read

Zero Dependency HTML templating in 12 lines of Javascript.

This is a piece of code I wrote for a previous blog post about writing a Custom Mocha Reporter. I wanted to generate HTML output from a…

Nov 12, 2018 · 3 min read

How to: Build a Custom Mocha Reporter

Warning: This article is basically tech arts-and-crafts.

Nov 6, 2018 · 7 min read

Using Docker? Don’t forget to use build caching!

Here’s a quick and easy tip that will speed up your docker builds for Python, Nodejs or any project that requires installing dependencies…

Nov 6, 2018 · 2 min read

JS: Promises, async/await, and functional programming.

Unlike a lot of the internet, I happen to enjoy writing Javascript. I’m also a fan of functional programming; from a practical point of…

Oct 2, 2018 · 8 min read

Announcing the launch of Posture!

This will be a quick post, but I have to share! After months and months of work, the first units of the Posture Laptop Stand are finally…

Apr 24, 2018 · 1 min read

Hidden text fingerprints and how to avoid them.

This post is inspired by a blog post, a discussion on HN, and a chrome extension. The final result is zwBlocker: An extension that helps…

Apr 16, 2018 · 6 min read

How and Why Developing for Ethereum Sucks

The potential of the Ethereum platform, what most would call a cryptocurrency, is astonishing. However, developing a decentralised app…

Jan 19, 2018 · 7 min read

How does cryptokitties.co work?

Let’s look under the hood of the Ethereum based cryptocurrency cat craze and see how it works!

Dec 4, 2017 · 6 min read

Fixing Twitter with a chrome extension

I hate tall tweets. Those long columns of text that force you to scroll forever to pass them. I get it! You made your point. Now can we…

Sep 29, 2017 · 9 min read

The ReviewYour.Website Experiment

Not all great ideas are original. Not all great ideas are complex. ReviewYour.Website is neither original, nor complex.

Sep 8, 2017 · 5 min read

What I learned in 8 weeks of YouTube

After 3½ years studying for a Ph.D., morale dwindles, distractions grow, and the end seems further away than ever. So, to satiate my hunger…

Apr 27, 2017 · 7 min read

Connecting separate Meteor Web-Apps and Mobile Apps

In this tutorial I will cover how to set up two separate Meteor projects to connect to one mongoDB using MUP to deploy, DigitalOcean as…

Mar 3, 2017 · 7 min read

Building an extension game

My last post received over 5.3k views! Thank you for reading. I’m going to continue documenting my exploration of browser extension…

Oct 6, 2016 · 8 min read

Building a simple chrome extension

I’ve been building websites and web apps for a while, but browser extensions have always seemed like black magic to me. But it turns out…

Sep 29, 2016 · 6 min read

The Cub

Or maybe we should have called it “The Rug”

Jul 18, 2014 · 3 min read