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Blog posts

  1. The web is exhausting

    I’ve been using the web in some form for over 20 years – granted, the early parts of that were heavily monitored because I was about 5 years old when we got dialup. But, a large part of my formative years were spent online, and it was such a different place compared to how it […]
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  2. Finding my old blog

    I’ve had a few blogs over the years – when I was younger I had a bad habit of starting a blog, and then occasionally throwing it away to move to a new platform. There’s a handful of blog posts out there that I’ve written that are now lost to the internet. By pure chance, […]
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  3. Building my first emulator

    Recently I’ve become interested in embedded devices and developing for them. Initially, that started out as wanting to write a game for the Game Boy Advance, but if I’m being honest my knowledge wasn’t up to scratch. So instead, I thought I’d try my hand at developing a simple emulator. After researching for a bit […]
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  4. Why I don’t write React anymore

    Earlier this year I made the decision to stop working in React. I’d just come out of a project using a modern JS tech stack that used Next.js, and I couldn’t get over how complex the whole thing had become, and how little I enjoyed the work. It felt like every new feature and change […]
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  5. Managing my reading list

    A little while ago I was toying with building a lightweight web app that would make it easy to manage and share reading lists. I never got around to making it, but instead I built a very-MVP version by adding my reading list to this website. It was a fairly simple construction, I simply added […]
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