Blog posts
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Month in review: April 2018
Just before writing this, I was: Chilling and having a homemade breakfast. This past month, I achieved: Doing two more tech talks at work, and learning a bunch in the process Seams in C# for my team...
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Remembering to breathe
As part of my ongoing attempt to cultivate a better mindset towards my life, I’ve started to question some practices I’ve taken on at work. One of those is the need to be at one’s desk for a majority...
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Month in review: March 2018
Just before writing this, I was: Paying bills, and finally cleaning out my top drawer for stationery! This past month, I achieved: Doing two tech talks at work C# refactoring The ReactJS Context API...
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OpenLayers for new players
One really quick thing I want to write about today is OpenLayers and a common pitfall I come across when writing mapping code. I originally came across this when writing code for a GovHack project, bu...
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Month in review: February 2018
I’ve been at a loss as to what to write on my blog lately, as I haven’t been doing a lot of code stuff that isn’t directly applicable to my work. Was chatting to Georgie, someone I work with, and she...
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Top Reads for 2017
2017 was my first year out of full time education and into full time work. I learnt so much every single day, and read a ridiculous amount of articles. When I sat down to write this post, I was overwh...
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What I learnt about writing React in 2017
Over the past month or so, I’ve gotten some real world experience of React in a project, where I’m replacing existing front-end code with quite a large footprint and significant complexity. I’ve previ...
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Using the .NET HttpClient class more efficiently
On a recent piece of work, I was updating some code in our codebase which makes use of a HttpClient for fairly similar actions, repeatedly. During a code review, someone noted that I was repeatedly cr...
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Auto-backed properties in C#: a quick primer
I’ve been excited and curious about the fancy auto-backed properties of C# since I first got into the language about three years ago. I’ll admit that, though I’m not a language nerd, the improved ergo...
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Top Reads for 2016
2016 certainly did become the year that was, with a series of unfortunate events leading to the internet becoming quite morose and anachronistically blaming an arbitrary timescale for their misery. It...