Connor Smyth

Hello! My name is Connor Smyth and I'm a Developer at Race Roster. I enjoy solving complex problems that help make people’s lives better and easier. I like always learning about new tools and new ways to work more efficiently. An active member of the dev community through open-source contributions and maintaining my open-source projects. Love to learn and share that knowledge through Lunch and Learns and mentoring.

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Psuedo

Pseudo is a system for mocking PHP's PDO database connections. When writing unit tests for PHP applications, one frequently has the need to test code that interacts with a database. However, in the true spirit of a unit test, the database should be abstracted, as we can assume with some degree of certainty that things like network links to the database server, the database connection drivers, and the database server and software itself are "going to work", and they are outside the scope of our unit tests.

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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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Recent Posts

The Connies Book Awards – 2021

December 15, 2021

I read 70 books this year! Rather than doing a regular update on what books I have read, which takes a lot of time and effort, sometimes for books that I do not even think are worth reading, I have decided to create an annual book awards post. There will be eight categories, each will ...

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Starting a New Job, Remotely

August 7, 2021

Hey, it’s been a while. I started a new job three weeks ago at a company called Race Roster where I will be working fully remotely. I thought it would be a great idea to share some of my notes on starting a new job in a remote environment. Take Lots of Notes I cannot ...

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The Project, In a Perfect World

April 6, 2021

The Local Setup Sarah is a new developer at the company. She has been assigned a task in the project where the third-party API package switcher is having some problems. She reads through the ticket assigned to her by the Project Manager. The ticket directs her to some documentation regarding the package switcher functionality where ...

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Learning Music Theory

February 28, 2021

I’ve been learning music theory this year and wanted to share some of my insights and specific learnings that I thought might be useful. A little history of music and me I have been playing music on-and-off-since I was about eight years old. It began when my Dad gave me his old 1970s/80s (I don’t ...

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Books Update: It’s Been a While Pt. 2

January 6, 2021

Unconventional Success David F. Swenson 416 pages This is the first book I have read to introduce me to the world of personal finance. I found it very valuable but I also felt that much of it could be skipped over. I would recommend reading chapters 1, 2, 3, 6, and 11 for sure. I ...

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Books Update: It’s Been a While Pt. 1

January 5, 2021

Hello again! It’s been a while since I’ve done a book update. 2020 has now come to a close and I have finished many books since my last update. The exact number that I have finished since my last update is 18. Because of the high volume of books in this update I’ve decided to ...

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