The 2022 Retrospective
We are into the final few days of 2022 and as any good dev should I wanted reflect on how I think it's gone for me.
We are into the final few days of 2022 and as any good dev should I wanted reflect on how I think it's gone for me.
At first glance, building a store for your own digital products seems simple to a developer. Hook up a Stripe payment link for orders and get it a to ping a webhook. Capture order details, email, deliver product. Job done. But it can be a whole more complex than that....
I don't find the 'hints' on the AoC subreddit that useful, so I decided to ask ChatGPT if it could generate them for me
Every week I create a new version of my site mixes.it based on new DJ mixes that have been released. In this post I describe how I collect the data with Pipedream and Supabase to create Spotify Playlists from it.
I tried out coding with Distrobox on the Steam Deck and discovered it fixes most of my problems with it.
I recently upgraded my Valve Steam Deck from a paltry 64GB eMMC to a somewhat less paltry 256GB SSD, saving me about £120
I got the Valve Steam Deck last month and have instantly become obsessed with it. I wanted to know if I could use it as a linux dev machine, knowing that it was essentially a full blown PC under the hood.
I watched a video earlier this week by comedian and mathematician Matt Parker. It’s an entertaining walkthrough of some impressive optimisation of his own Python code by his community but there's a comment about Python that I thought warranted some pushback.
This past weekend I've been attending PyCon UK. I'm particularly lucky in that I live a 10 min train ride from where it is located in Cardiff meaning its incredibly convenient and economic for me. As a Python dev located here, there's literally no excuse not to attend.
I found with a new poetry install that it refused to use the pyenv version of Python.
Earlier this year I bought the 11th gen Framework Laptop to develop on. I share what I liked and disliked and how I got on with it.
When running some Cypress tests in Github Actions that were inspecting dates recently, I wanted to be able to set the locale of the browser
Unless you’ve been hidden under a rock, you’re likely aware of Copilot - Github’s (or Microsofts) AI pair programmer. It allows you to get help on the code you’re writing by bringing up suggestions through an autocomplete snippets when you begin typing code in your editor.