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• Focus

  January 19th, 2026

  Last year I was all over the place. Writing lot's of different languages, exploring new stacks, and generally getting nothing done. 2026 will be all about "focus". By focus I mean, one stack, finished projects, and narrowed scope.

• The future of videcoding

  January 19th, 2026

  This one made me laugh. One of my favourite "AI" predictions to far.

  

• 2026 new year's resolutions

  January 1st, 2026

  2025 was a super busy year for me. Some of the highlights being, my wife is now pregnant (due date 02/01/2026), moving house (now on a 300 acre farm), becoming a part time farmer (150 sheep, inherited from my father in law). And on the tech side, as my techy life is the focus of this blog, an awful lot of wheel spin.

All Posts (80)

• 2026 - 3 posts

• 19/01 Focus
• 19/01 The future of videcoding
• 01/01 2026 new year's resolutions

• 2025 - 58 posts

• 28/12 Please don't write code
• 15/12 Card deck in C
• 09/12 Hosting this blog
• 06/12 Advent of code d6
• 05/12 Advent of code d5
• 04/12 Advent of code d4
• 03/12 Advent of code d3
• 02/12 Advent of code d2
• 01/12 Advent of code d1
• 01/12 A year of experiments
• 28/11 Neovim 0.12 adds vim.pack
• 27/11 Part-time sheep farmer
• 23/10 Go install script
• 21/10 Managers, managers, managers
• 10/10 mise-en-place
• 01/09 Generate SQLite table types for Typescript
• 21/08 Literal templates
• 20/08 Template strings as a view engine - Part 2
• 17/08 Template strings as a view engine
• 08/08 Object field validators in Typescript
• 05/08 Feature flags db schema
• 31/07 PostgresSQL full text search
• 27/07 startswith and endswith
• 21/07 Stack Overflow is dieing, no wonder
• 18/07 Trimming strings in c
• 15/07 Banned from lobste.rs and Hacker News
• 15/07 Making a StringBuffer in C
• 14/07 Use Codium not Code
• 10/07 Get inode type in C
• 17/06 Handle Spring form errors with JTE
• 16/06 Add a CSRF token to HTML forms with JTE
• 29/05 Spring database seeding
• 28/05 New Lib: Blueprint Factory
• 26/05 New Lib: Placeholder Image Generator
• 19/05 Request cache in Spring
• 12/05 Checking ownership in Spring
• 09/04 Slurp - A Java task runner
• 03/04 Using CPU branch prediction in Java
• 02/04 Using Docker on Linux Mint
• 02/04 Install OpenJDK on Ubuntu
• 01/04 Yoda Conditions
• 25/03 Tower of Hanoi in Java
• 06/03 AxeRunner
• 05/03 European Alternatives
• 24/02 Using a virtual screen size in Raylib
• 18/02 Using astyle to format C code
• 17/02 Creating a database dump with SQLite
• 17/02 Optimise SQLite for Laravel apps
• 16/02 Backing up an SQLite database
• 14/02 GameDev in C Part 4: A Snake Clone
• 01/02 I'm off social media
• 31/01 GameDev in C Part 3: Drawing a Slime
• 31/01 Linting is procrastination.
• 23/01 GameDev in C Part 2: Raylib
• 21/01 GameDev in C Part 1: Hello World
• 20/01 Homer's Drinking Bird
• 04/01 I joined social media
• 02/01 2025 new year's resolutions

• 2024 - 19 posts

• 31/12 Setting up PostgreSQL and Lua in Docker
• 05/12 Rust, the Cunning Wizard
• 25/11 Partial function implementation
• 18/11 Chicken Farmer, a Snake clone
• 16/11 Useful ImageData Methods
• 31/10 Using the form attribute on buttons
• 21/10 I wrote a test framework in Julia
• 17/10 Sensible SQLite defaults
• 15/10 Prevent pixel art blur on canvas
• 09/10 Add IF NOT EXISTS to your migrations
• 06/10 Using a PostgreSQL enum for state
• 01/10 Conway's Game of Life in Go
• 30/09 Writing a DB migrator in Go
• 22/09 Creating a Pong clone using Raylib and Go
• 15/09 Bit shifting to increase performance
• 07/09 Generate OG images for blog posts
• 17/08 One assertion per test please
• 12/06 Slugs with an ID fallback in Laravel
• 06/06 Seeding a Laravel DB with Irish Counties