Hosting this blog
"Every developer should host their own blog". Is a statement repeated regularly across socials. I agree, they should. But I didn't untill now, so don't beat yourself up over it. Here is a quick run down of how this blog is hosted.
I like to program as close to vanilla as possible. Because abstractions are complex. Seriously, why give a man a fish when you could teach him about asynchronous programming?
I've been paid to program for 13 years. People have paid me to write SQL, Java, Python, PHP, C, and C++. Which is ridiculous as it's my hobby. I love to code.
Latest Posts
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Advent of code d6
Phase one for day 6 only. Phase 2 beat me. Spent over an hour on it, but the left vs right justifying of numbers got me. I may come back to it, but I've spent all the time I want to on it tonight.
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Advent of code d5
This is the first one where I've had to change a solution for performance. The logic here was fairly straight forward. The challenge was getting the program to complete before new years eve.
All Posts (75)
2025 - 56 posts
- Hosting this blog
- Advent of code d6
- Advent of code d5
- Advent of code d4
- Advent of code d3
- Advent of code d2
- Advent of code d1
- A year of experiments
- Neovim 0.12 adds vim.pack
- Part-time sheep farmer
- Go install script
- Managers, managers, managers
- mise-en-place
- Generate SQLite table types for Typescript
- Literal templates
- Template strings as a view engine - Part 2
- Template strings as a view engine
- Object field validators in Typescript
- Feature flags db schema
- PostgresSQL full text search
- startswith and endswith
- Stack Overflow is dieing, no wonder
- Trimming strings in c
- Banned from lobste.rs and Hacker News
- Making a StringBuffer in C
- Use Codium not Code
- Get inode type in C
- Handle Spring form errors with JTE
- Add a CSRF token to HTML forms with JTE
- Spring database seeding
- New Lib: Blueprint Factory
- New Lib: Placeholder Image Generator
- Request cache in Spring
- Checking ownership in Spring
- Slurp - A Java task runner
- Using CPU branch prediction in Java
- Using Docker on Linux Mint
- Install OpenJDK on Ubuntu
- Yoda Conditions
- Tower of Hanoi in Java
- AxeRunner
- European Alternatives
- Using a virtual screen size in Raylib
- Using astyle to format C code
- Creating a database dump with SQLite
- Optimise SQLite for Laravel apps
- Backing up an SQLite database
- GameDev in C Part 4: A Snake Clone
- I'm off social media
- GameDev in C Part 3: Drawing a Slime
- Linting is procrastination.
- GameDev in C Part 2: Raylib
- GameDev in C Part 1: Hello World
- Homer's Drinking Bird
- I joined social media
- 2025 new year's resolutions
2024 - 19 posts
- Setting up PostgreSQL and Lua in Docker
- Rust, the Cunning Wizard
- Partial function implementation
- Chicken Farmer, a Snake clone
- Useful ImageData Methods
- Using the form attribute on buttons
- I wrote a test framework in Julia
- Sensible SQLite defaults
- Prevent pixel art blur on canvas
- Add IF NOT EXISTS to your migrations
- Using a PostgreSQL enum for state
- Conway's Game of Life in Go
- Writing a DB migrator in Go
- Creating a Pong clone using Raylib and Go
- Bit shifting to increase performance
- Generate OG images for blog posts
- One assertion per test please
- Slugs with an ID fallback in Laravel
- Seeding a Laravel DB with Irish Counties