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.
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Why You Probably Shouldn't Develop Your Own Digital Product Store
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....
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Using ChatGPT to Create Spoiler-Free Advent of Code Hints
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
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Automatic Spotify Playlist Creation with Pipedream and Supabase
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.
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How to Setup Distrobox on the Steam Deck
I tried out coding with Distrobox on the Steam Deck and discovered it fixes most of my problems with it.
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How to Upgrade Your Steam Decks Storage
I recently upgraded my Valve Steam Deck from a paltry 64GB eMMC to a somewhat less paltry 256GB SSD, saving me about £120
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Coding on the Steam Deck
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.
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Python isn’t Used in Prod
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.