Musings

The Top 5 Mistakes You Make Building Software And How To Avoid Them

Saturday 10 February 2024, 17:18

The difference between failure and success isn't whether you make mistakes, it's whether you learn from them.

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Tales from the interview: when the business fails their own interview

Monday 22 January 2024, 20:15

Recalling the time I turned down a job offer because the company's interview technique sucked.

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Tales from the interview: when the tech test goes wrong

Friday 19 January 2024, 18:50

Recalling the time I was rejected on the basis of a tech test...for the strangest reason!

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Thoughts on Laravel and best practice

Saturday 13 May 2023, 01:16

Musings from a Reddit thread

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Who so slow? Infrequent blog posting

Monday 10 April 2023, 00:11

Life with a newborn baby aka why I sometimes go long periods of time without making any new posts.

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I Tried ChatGPT and It's Not the Best Thing Ever

Sunday 05 February 2023, 16:36

An AI revolution or playing dumb? This blog post brought to you by a special guest contributor.

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Web 3.0 - The Great Con

Monday 10 October 2022, 07:15

I'll say it - web 3.0 is a meaningless buzzword, and blockchain and cryptocurrency is nothing more than a giant fraud.

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Why You Probably Don’t Need React (or any other frontend framework)

Friday 07 October 2022, 23:30

Challenging the present day orthodoxy on web application architecture.

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Terminology in testing - making a mockery of you

Thursday 18 August 2022, 19:40

What's a unit, anyway?

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When Cybersecurity Goes Wrong

Tuesday 31 May 2022, 22:00

...and how not to handle customer service

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Saturday 10 February 2024, 17:18

The difference between failure and success isn't whether you make mistakes, it's whether you learn from them.

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Monday 22 January 2024, 20:15

Recalling the time I turned down a job offer because the company's interview technique sucked.

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Friday 19 January 2024, 18:50

Recalling the time I was rejected on the basis of a tech test...for the strangest reason!

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Monday 28 August 2023, 11:26

Why type hinting an array as a parameter or return type is an anti-pattern and should be avoided.

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Saturday 17 June 2023, 15:49

Leveraging the power of JSON and RDBMS for a combined SQL/NoSQL approach.

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