Writing

Dev Notes

Lessons learned, patterns found, problems solved. One write-up per project.

• 1 August 2025 Node.jsExpressPostgreSQLRailwayREST API

  Project 04 — SA Fuel Price API

  Building a public REST API for South African fuel prices with Node.js, Express and PostgreSQL on Railway — and upgrading the fuel tracker from a static JSON file to a live database-backed API.

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• 1 July 2025 Vanilla JSGoogle Apps ScriptGoogle SheetsLeaflet.jsCloudflare Pages

  Project 03 — SA Incident Tracker

  Building a zero-cost community safety reporting tool for Durban / KZN — anonymous incident submission, admin moderation, live CCTV feeds, and a canvas-based photo blur tool. GAS + Sheets as the backend.

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• 3 June 2025 Vanilla JSChart.jsREST APICloudflare Pages

  Project 02 — SA Fuel Price Tracker

  Building a live South African fuel price dashboard with vanilla JS and Chart.js — evolving from a static JSON file to a proper REST API backend, with interactive chart navigation and a browser-based price editor.

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• 1 June 2025 AstroCloudflareCSS

  Project 01 — Building the Portfolio

  How I built this site with Astro, applied the MD Works brand system end-to-end, and deployed it for zero cost via GitHub and Cloudflare Pages.

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