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I’ve spent a lot of late nights and early mornings over the past month helping my wife @tamsynjs launch her new side-project - Household.

Born out of a frustration with how hard it can be to easily keep track of everything that needs doing in a busy house - from housework and maintenance, to bills and events - Household is at its core a highly focussed to-do list aimed at simplifying household organisation. Household is also a community of like-minded individuals, seeking to make ‘adulting’ a bit easier.

As well as lending a hand with the development side of things I’ve also been flexing my creative muscles with the branding.

We’re very much taking a ‘release early, release often’ approach so things may be a little rough around the edges as we push on with getting the platform out there and operating in the wild. Watch this space for updates as more and more features come online.

So why not show some love and head on over to @householdapp.co or visit https://householdapp.co and register for your free account!

#householdapp #household #organisation #planning #cleaning #maintenance #organisedhome #startup #sideproject #webdevelopment #branding #creative

Nearly two years ago, before I moved back into gainful employment, I was working on building a personal brand for freelance and contract work. Like many one-man-bands, feeling that it would lend a greater air of legitimacy to me, I fell into the trap of making out that I was bigger than I was (I was a ‘boutique’ agency, and I used the royal ‘we’ a lot in the promotional copy). Whilst there wasn’t necessarily anything wrong with this (plenty of ‘boutique’ agencies do it!) it did feel a little disingenuous.

Fast forward to January 2017, and I miss being able to showcase the work that I have been lucky enough to contribute to over the past decade-plus. So, I figured it was time to work on my personal brand - not in an effort to illicit work (I’m perfectly happy in my current full-time role) - but to share the fruits of my professional life thus far.

This time, I’m not a small ‘multi-discipline agency’, and my posts will hopefully have a lot more personal insight into the work. I’ll also use it as an opportunity to highlight some of my personal side-projects that I hope to work on this year.

So if you want to see some pretty pictures of things that I have made, go give @madebytheprivateer a follow (I’ll be sure to post something about what I chose that name) #portfolio #design #webdevelopment #madebytheprivateer

ICYMI I made a thing, and now I've open-sourced it

Regrammed from @alchemydigitalau: Have decided to completely rebuild the cloud file-sharing system that I built earlier this year. Never quite got round to finishing what I had in mind, and time - and technology - have moved on. Got plans to focus the service and increase performance dramatically. In the meantime I've put the existing code base up on GitHub for anyone who's vaguely interested. No license - do what you like with it! Link is in the bio #nimbus #github #opensource #filesharing #cloud #dropbox #copy #aws #s3 #sharingiscaring #freebie #fork #git #php #laravel #webdevelopment

Me, all day e'ry day. #coffee #caffeine #allthecoffee #getinmecoffee #programmer #programming #webdesign #webdevelopment #coding #code #html #geek #needthisonatshirt #whowouldbuyit (originally posted by my alter ego @alchemydigitalau)

FYI... Regrammed from @alchemydigitalau Been a while since the last 'gram so figured it was time for a quick update. I am now working exclusively at Fastrack Group in #newstead. They specialise in providing design and marketing solutions to the travel and tourism industries - a sector that has always been a great passion of mine. Together we're working on some really exciting design and development projects for a variety of local and international clients. Bit of a change of pace, but I'll still be working on my own projects evenings and weekends so watch this space. #agencylife #fastrack #hotel #tourism #travel #design #marketing #webdesign #webdevelopment #brisbane #sydney #auckland #alchemydigital