Jun 10, 2022Mind GardeningWhen my wife and I moved into our little house in Bolton, I’d never really done any gardening. To me the winter months were a lovely respite from having to worry about the horsetail, dandelions and overgrown borders taking control out of my window. Each Saturday morning I’d stare out…Mental Health2 min readMental Health2 min read
Jun 29, 2020The 8 Types of IntelligenceSo. I’ve been coding both casually and professionally on and off for quite a while now. But before I got into tech I was profoundly interested in people. …Learning6 min readLearning6 min read
Jun 26, 2019Let’s Build a Thing! (Part Four)Well, good morning 👋 I hope that you’ve been enjoying the exploits over these last few posts. I’m casually aware that there are a lot of similar articles out there discussing the hand-rolling of front-end frameworks, and that what I’m doing here may be no different. …JavaScript3 min readJavaScript3 min read
Jun 24, 2019Let’s Build a Thing! (Part Three)Welcome back! As I seem to have found my writing cadence I thought I’d keep on ploughin’ on with this series of build-a-thing posts. You can find the previous posts here and here. To re-cap, I’ve: Configured my local dev environment for TypeScript. Devved a really simple implementation of the…JavaScript5 min readJavaScript5 min read
Jun 23, 2019Let’s Build a Thing! (Part Two)So yesterday I embarked on this mad, audacious goal of trying to create a front-end framework from the ground-up using TDD and TypeScript. For those of you who’d like to refresh your memory, you can find the original blog post here. But what does the world look like today? Well…JavaScript5 min readJavaScript5 min read
Jun 22, 2019Let’s Build a Thing! (Part One)My current run-rate for blogging is not fantastic. I have extremely good intentions, but I invariably either: Stop doing “worky” things outside of the working week so that I can give my poor brain a rest. …JavaScript4 min readJavaScript4 min read
Nov 3, 2018Cloud-First TDD with .net CORE — Part 2Over in part one of this blog post we learned how to use the dotnet core toolchain and serverless to deploy asp .net core Lambdas to AWS. In this post we’re going to look at how to stitch these pieces together into a pipeline, and get this configured to run…Gitlab4 min readGitlab4 min read
Nov 2, 2018Cloud-First TDD with .net CORE — Part 1Everybody loves a good buzzword! These posts aim to be part walk-through, part experience report regarding my own encounters with serverless tech, and a frictionless, enjoyable pattern that I’ve arrived at for building cloud-native APIs. So without further ado! A bit of background As you may have gathered from my previous post I am…AWS5 min readAWS5 min read
Sep 22, 2018Burnout & You — Recognising the Signs“Hi! — I’m Sheps” I’ve been wading around the murky waters of various IT organisations for the past 11ish years, and have worked in many different roles with varying responsibilities throughout. This is the latest in a series of frequently-aborted attempts at blogging and brain-sharing. …Burnout4 min readBurnout4 min read
