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Creating a Google News wrapper app for macOS and Windows in Electron

A mini project to explore Electron Over the past couple of days I’ve been exploring the world of Electron. Electron is a cross platform desktop app builder wrapped in a Chromium shell, allowing you to create a web app built natively for each different platform.  The reason why I decided Read more…

By George King, 5 years30th June 2020 ago
Site

Dark mode all the things!

This website now has dark mode! Dark mode is good. Dark mode is great. We all love the darkness! Seriously though, as a part of the usual website upkeep, I decided to update the theme with the help of a little API available within browsers now called ‘prefers-color-scheme: dark’. Using Read more…

By George King, 5 years5th June 2020 ago
Life

An update (finally)

Back to the blog! So it’s been a sweet while since my last blog post. So much so that it’s tricky even writing this post after so long – a lot has happened in my life which I’m going to summarise within this post. To start off with, I had Read more…

By George King, 5 years5th June 2020 ago
University

Refining gameplay aspects

Addressing ‘The idea doesn’t have enough depth’ statements One of the main criticisms when I first proposed my idea for my final year project was that there was a lot of breadth, not enough depth to the idea. Initially I had hoped to just create an Android game using the Read more…

By George King, 8 years16th November 2017 ago
University

HackUPC Autumn 2017

A quick trip to Barcelona – why not!? Whilst studying for my final year, an opportunity arose to attend a 48 hour hackathon in Barcelona at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. Despite it being my final year, a quick weekend 900 mile trip was needed..!  The flights were covered by Read more…

By George King, 8 years1st November 2017 ago
University

Good design vs trash design

What makes a good design? This question is going to haunt me all year. For Interaction Design, we have a specific set of requirements to fulfill in building a prototype wireframe system, and one of the requirements is that it needs to be built for a Kiosk style help system. Read more…

By George King, 8 years6th October 2017 ago

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