Connor Smyth

Hello! My name is Connor Smyth and I'm a Full Stack Developer and Solutions Team Lead at Art & Science. I specialize in Laravel, WordPress, and Node.js applications with various front-end interfaces. I also enjoy building mobile games and apps, developing APIs, and being an active member of the dev community.

Featured Projects

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Trivia API

A publicly available trivia API created with Laravel and PHP web scraping. The API is based on jService.io. With a total of 96,221 questions I plan on creating various applications to leverage this API in the future. Try it yourself now!

BlockDown

A fun new puzzle game that will challenge your visual-spatial skills. Normal mode is a twist on a familiar game with an added level of skill. Freeplay mode is a more casual game where the goal is to rack up as many points as possible.
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Orpheum & TedX 2019

TEDxToronto, Canada’s largest TEDx event, held its 11th annual conference on October 26th, 2019. As a part of this event, Art & Science exhibited The Orpheum – a touch-powered musical instrument and art installation built to light up the event.
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  • PHP

  • Laravel

  • WordPress

  • JavaScript

  • Node.js

  • Vue.js

  • jQuery

  • C#

  • Unity

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    Shopify

  • CSS

  • Sass

  • Python

  • MySQL

  • Linux

  • Unix Shell

  • Azure

  • AWS

Recent Posts

Growing in Excess and Other Problems of Modern Agriculture

September 27, 2020

The United States wastes about 40% of its food production. To put it in simpler terms this would be like throwing out five McDonalds cheeseburgers per person per day, every day.

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Books Update – 2020/09/07

September 7, 2020

This may just end up being a blog where I talk about all the books I have read with the occasional musing about what technologies I have been working with recently.

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A conversation with Ryan Welcher

July 17, 2020

Let’s start with the fact that it is very difficult to get a client to agree to include testing in the project’s budget for both new and ongoing projects. Although trying to perform testing without the client’s support is hard, testing can sometimes save a project.

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