Recently I took my third attempt at learning Elm; the first two attempts faded out after doing the “Hello World” level of experimentation. This time however I have made more progress. I tried to build something more targeted. I build first a small visualisation tool that shows progress of yachts […]
On February 1st and 2nd I attended https://fosdem.org/2020/ and this post is my summary of attending the Free and Open Source Developers’ European Meeting in Brussels. The two day event is huge, held on a university campus it spans multiple buildings and has 8,000+ attendeees. There are 30+ rooms in […]
Today I updated a Perl script I wrote back in February 2017 to create an ICal feed. Whilst making my change I discovered an odd character escaping issue. Perl as a scripting language is handy for this sort of thing as the module I wanted to look at was on […]
Back in 2017 I wrote an article on how I consumed media (https://lancewicks.com/2017/02/08/media-consumption/) and I thought I would revisit the subject as we close in on the the end of 2019 to see what has changed. Watching: Traditional TV is completely dead to me; I can’t remembver the last time […]
This year I was able to attend the London Perl Workshop (LPW2019) once again. I gave a talk titled “Perl 6, losing your Perl 5 accent” which is available at https://slides.com/lancewicks/lpw2019 and the video is available here: The talk is mainly around the idea that being a Perl 5 developer […]
Lately I have been doing some coding challenges and rather than just solving them and moving on I have been doing them in multiple languages for a couple of reasons. Deliberate Practice Those of you who have heard of the 10,000 hour rule will probably have heard of the deliverate […]
Those who know me or follow me, will know I have been working at the same company for the past 6 years or so; as of this month, that is no longer the case. I enjoyed so much of working at CV-Library, specifically working with some amazing people and on […]
Recently I was reminded that a website I created as part of a 2 year academic research project was dead ( http://www.rwjl.net). So I set out to bring it back to life. Step one… where is the code? So the last time I did any work on the site was […]
Picture this… you come into work and a colleague runs to you saying their is a bug in the software, everything is wrong, HELP! Grabbing a coffee, you settle into your chair and open up the offending bit of code: Hmmm…. it returns “status”. Umm what? Umm why? Is it […]
Anyone who knows my development style will know that my personal approach is very test oriented, and I tend towards verbosity first, then refining the code to be cleaner and/or more more idiomatic after the code works… and it proven to work. So what does it look like? Recently in […]