Martin Adams | Building Flowtelic

Mindset

Epiphany! What my ego really wants

I've had an epiphany! I've discovered what drives my ego any how it ends up getting hurt.

Startups

Being a solo founder and building in public | Audio Chat

Listen to the replay of Albert asking about my solo founder journey building Flowtelic and Building in Public

Zettelkasten

Why I wont build obvious features for my Zettelkasten note-taking app

Here are the key reasons why I wont build the most obvious features for my Zettelkasten note-taking app

Habit

You vs your future self

We fail to recognise that the person we want to become is a different person to who we are today.

Habit

Why do I get motivated, but never do anything?

What is it that is preventing us from working hard, developing our craft and gaining mastery of our skill? What is it that throws us off track to the point where we give up and move onto something else that we desire?

Programming

Record your terminal window using asciinema

Here's a quick tutorial how to use asciinema to record a cast of your terminal window so you can play it back in your terminal or embed it on a web page. This is great if you want to create tutorials or show how a product works. InstallationInstall it using

Programming

Understand 'this' in JavaScript

What is 'this' in JavaScript and how do regular functions and arrow functions impact it?

Design

Land a design job

7 tips to land a design job. #3 - By showing your design thinking in your portfolio, you demonstrate that you have tried and tested methods to produce quality work and that you're not a one hit wonder who got lucky.

Programming

Embed React into an HTML web page

Tutorial: Add React to an existing HTML page.

Startups

Exclude a URL in Google Analytics

Don't let internal and bogus URLs spoil your Google Analytics reports. This tutorial will show you how to easily filter them out.

Design

How do I screenshot a webpage using Chrome and no plugins

Screenshot a web page using just Google Chrome and no extensions or plugins

Startups

From idea to startup - what is your product?

A lot of startup ideas fail to know the difference between the product and the customer. Here's what you need to know.

Programming

Using the DigitalOcean API with Node.js and programatic SSH

Tutorial: Create DigitalOcean droplets, generate SSH keys and run SSH commands all within Node.js

Startups

The Ultimate Startup Trello Board

Creating a startup can be a daunting task. You soon find yourself thinking about the elevator pitch, minimum viable product, lean startup, product market fit, customer acquisition, etc. If you're new and some of those terms are alien to you, don't worry. I've created The Ultimate Startup Trello Board to

Programming

Easy async/await in JavaScript

A not-so-long time ago, JavaScript was renowned for a thing called callback hell. I should know, I've written projects which would have nested levels of callbacks. For example: function saveWebPage(url, callback) { // Get the web page getWebPage(url, function(err, html) { if (err) callback(err); // Load it if exists loadPage(

Startups

Finding my why and infinite game

I'm a huge fan of Simon Sinek as his ability to challenge the status quo of how people are treated in the workplace. His perspective has really made me challenge why I do what I do and what it is I'm striving for. Over the past few months I've been

Startups

Good startup idea vs bad startup idea - find your product market fit

How to find a great product market fit for your startup and make sure you're not tricking yourself into failure

Programming

VSCode Snippet for a React Component with styled-components

Create your own VSCode snippet to create a react component with prop-types and styled-components.

Productivity

All you need to know about Inbox Zero

How moving from "doing" email to triage and processing email can help you get less distracted and boost deep work.

Getting Started

It all starts here

I believe that there is a real benefit to guide others to finding a way to achieve success, but without selling your soul. I believe that success shouldn't come at the cost of fulfillment and being content with life. For you, success may be something audacious or it may be

Is conjunction fallacy killing your personas?

Personas, love them or hate them. But if you're using them, watch out for this trap called the conjunction fallacy.

Fix your reports

Find out what you're doing wrong when sending reports and how to fix it

Programming

Docker for Node.js developers in 2 minutes

Find out how to get your Node app with a database and microservices in Docker in 2 minutes. Boom, done!