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Re-imagineering the event in Simply Remind Me

Rapidly approaching 500 new users this year, my free email and simple text message reminder app - Simply Remind Me - is earning a loyal following in the world.

In July, I had 131 new users that have signed up in 2023.  As of today, I've trebled this to 466.

All of these new users are bringing great suggestions and feedback - particularly from a competitor's service that stopped working earlier this year.

I'm rolling all this feedback and suggestions into a complete overhaul of the "event experience" which I'm excited to preview today.

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Simply Remind Me's Year in Numbers

I've added a new feature to the website for Simply Remind Me - my free email and simple text reminder app. The website now shows live statistics, read directly from the Simply Remind Me platform.

The statistics show the number of new users, events created, reminders sent and the number of unique timezones the app has users registered in - since the start of 2023. 

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Simply Remind Me April 2023 update

I've today released a major new version of my free email reminder app and simple text and phone call reminder app, Simply Remind Me.

This release has been nearly 4 months in the making and introduces some new features I'm excited to deliver to you, and some important bug fixes.

This article describes the new features and enhancements that are now live in Simply Remind Me.

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Hello OctoberCMS and Laravel. Goodbye WordPress.

This article - along with the rest of my website here at andysh.uk - is now being served from OctoberCMS.

OctoberCMS is a proprietary content management system built on the amazing Laravel PHP framework. This is a significant change for me both personally, and technically, for 2 key reasons.

Read on to find out more about OctoberCMS and Laravel.

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Simply Remind Me: an apology about SMS reminders

Today, 14th May, I discovered that SMS messages sent from my Simply Remind Me app since 1st March were not being delivered by my SMS provider.

Because they were successfully accepted by the gateway, Simply Remind Me correctly deducted the credits from your account. But the messages failed to arrive at their intended handsets.

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New version of Simply Remind Me now available

Earlier this week, I gave a sneak preview of version 3 of Simply Remind Me – my free e-mail and simple SMS reminders app.

The new version is now live and ready to welcome new and existing users.

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Sneak Preview of Simply Remind Me, version 3

It’s been four years since the last update to Simply Remind Me – my free e-mail and SMS (text message) reminders app. Since the COVID-19 pandemic started in 2020, sign-ups have increased significantly. It’s therefore a perfect time for a refresh and an update.

This blog post shows you a preview of the new-look Simply Remind Me – version 3 – launching soon.

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Solid Tools for Developers June 2021 update

It’s been almost 18 months – and a global pandemic – since the last update to Solid Tools for Developers, my suite of free online debugging tools for software developers and system administrators.

Today I’ve released a new update to Solid Tools which, unlike the previous update, is more evolutionary rather than revolutionary.

This post details all the changes; you can check them out for yourself now at soliddevtools.com.

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Upgrading an application from Bootstrap 4 to 5

Over the past few weeks I’ve migrated my website to a new content management system – ExpressionEngine.

I took the opportunity to upgrade my website’s front-end technologies to their latest releases – Bootstrap 5 and VueJS 3, for example.

This post documents some of the changes I came across migrating Bootstrap 4 to 5.

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Microsoft releases new Edge browser based on Chrome

Announced around a year ago, Microsoft today released their brand-new version of Edge – the default web browser since the Windows 10 release.

The new Edge browser is based on Google’s Chromium project. Chromium is the “base” software that Google builds the Chrome browser on.

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