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Longer pieces on things I’ve thought about, worked on, or figured out.

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PostPersonalWebsite revitalised using Gatsby!This year, one of my personal goals was to revitalise this website and get the source code onto Github. Historically it has been a blog, and not that anyone’s really noticed, but I haven’t…29 Oct 20203 min
PostProgrammingGPG signed commits in PHPStorm on CentOS 7Having the functionality of automatically being prompted to sign your commits while still using PHPStorms Git GUI means you’ll never forget to sign commits again. To start with, the version…23 Jan 20191 min
PostPersonalDevOps at KobasI’ve been at Kobas two years now, I previously wrote about my experiences in my first month , so it seemed fitting to do an overview of my experiences since then surrounding the software we…23 Sep 20183 min
PostSystemsHelpful Linux commandsSo this is just going to be a bit of knowledge dump of things I’ve picked up lately / don’t want to forget. Bang Cash !$ If you are intending on running a few commands with the last argument…14 Jan 20182 min
PostSystemsBash/Cygwin Terminal in PHPStormI’ve been meaning to post about this for a while, but it seems hard lately to make time to post here. I personally hate windows shell, in my mind it is utterly useless. If I’m ever using it…14 Mar 20172 min
PostProgrammingMaking a simple RTS game – Week ThreeSo week two of making an RTS was September 2nd – 9th. Almost three months later I’ve managed to spend most of my weekend on it. This is pretty typical timeline of any of my personal side…27 Nov 20163 min
PostProgrammingMaking a simple RTS game – Week TwoSo week two has gone relatively well, I didn’t spend as much time working on the game as I would have liked, it’s hard going from programming at work to programming at home every day…9 Sep 20163 min
PostProgrammingMaking a simple RTS game – Week OneSo I’ve decided I want to make a game again, nothing crazy just a simple RTS game, browser based (mainly for speed of development and that I’m interested to see what it’s like), I’ve…1 Sep 20162 min
PostProductivityMy thoughts on management & time trackingSo I’ve talked about time tracking before, however that was much more a “keep yourself on track / how to know what to bill per hour as a freelancer/contractor” post. Today I’d like to share…29 Aug 20164 min
PostPersonalFirst month at KobasSo I’ve been working for roughly a month at Kobas now, I think things have been going very well and I wanted to highlight what I’ve been working on for the last couple of weeks. For anyone…3 Jul 20163 min
PostReviewsAn honest review of the Surface Pro 3I bought a Surface Pro 3 in November 2014, I haven’t wrote anything at all about my thoughts on it since purchasing it, I figured it was better to wait until I had actually been using it for…11 Jun 20163 min
PostPersonalGoodbye Vancouver, Hello LondonSo I have left beautiful British Columbia and I’m back in Europe, in London of all places. I’ve gone full circle it seems! I’m not going to bother going into the details of why I left…26 May 20162 min