Hello there! 
My name is Mike Walker.
I am a full-stack web developer with 15 years experience building all sorts of web-based experiences. Today I mostly focus on eCommerce and re-platforming merchants to Shopify.
The Agency Developer is a weekly newsletter with a mission to keep developers working in digital agencies up-to-date with latest web-based tips, techniques and technologies.
If you’re in Vancouver, come hang out at Indie Hackers Vancouver. We’re a friendly group of tech-savvy entrepreneurs and makers with a desire to help each other grow.
Hobbies include urban beekeeping, messing around with microelectronics, and geocaching! 🤓
Recent blog posts
Veracrypt vs. Diskcryptor vs. Endpoint Encryption vs. Sophos vs. Dell Data Protection vs AxCrypt
The following post outlines 6 different options for full-disk encryption software. This document is the result of research completed for project which required disk encryption
Running a Healthy Digital Agency Despite COVID-19 Concerns
With the recent news of the COVID-19 officially reaching pandemic status, many digital agencies with physical offices are moving quickly to implement social distancing measures
2019 A Year of Bees atop the Athletes Village Co-op
In the spirit of “year-in-review” posts, I collected all my beekeeping photos from 2019 and stitched together a rough timeline of the year. These photos
Linking to a local path or SMB share in Notion
UNFORTUNATE UPDATE from @NotionHQ: 😢 I’ll leave the original post below in case the Notion Product team ever happens to look though their backlog: UPDATE:
Indie Hackers Vancouver: Feedback from Early July session
After our last meet-up at the beginning of July, I asked the attendees to fill out an anonymous feedback form. We received 4 total responses.
Win a Taylor Otwell bobblehead from Laracon US VII
Laravel US 2019 has just ended and I happened to win an extra Taylor Otwell bobblehead during the event. I don’t need two bobbleheads, so