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Building "Journal Buddy": A Custom GPT for Personal Reflection

11 Apr 2024

I've always wanted to be able to write a daily journal. The science is pretty clear about the...

#ai#go#learning#api 3 min read

Pattern matching 💖 decision tables

10 Aug 2022

Have you ever found yourself writing a massive nested if statement and thinking, 🤮? If so, this might...

#programming#tutorial#rust#discuss 3 min read

A more functional approach to Event Sourcing and DDD

11 Jul 2022

I've spent a bit of time outside of my day-to-day work playing around with functional languages, F#...

#showdev#csharp#ddd#eventdriven 4 min read

Dealing with imposter syndrome

11 Jul 2022

I have spent two decades solving problems by writing code and developing software. Despite this, I...

#discuss#programming#mentalhealth#career 6 min read

Improving code using the Trinity of Quality

30 Jun 2022

I watched this YouTube video recently by Minute Physics (who I highly recommend subscribing to)...

#programming#agile#codequality#career 3 min read

Show Spotify Now Playing in Twitch Studio

26 Jun 2022

I decided recently that I would start live coding my personal projects outside of work on Twitch🚀....

#webdev#spotify#twitch#tutorial 2 min read
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