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Jun 10, 2022

Mind Gardening

When 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 Health

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Mind Gardening
Mind Gardening
Mental Health

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Jun 29, 2020

The 8 Types of Intelligence

So. 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. …

Learning

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The 8 Types of Intelligence
The 8 Types of Intelligence
Learning

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Jun 26, 2019

Let’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. …

JavaScript

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Let’s Build a Thing! (Part Four)
Let’s Build a Thing! (Part Four)
JavaScript

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Jun 24, 2019

Let’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…

JavaScript

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Let’s Build a Thing! (Part Three)
Let’s Build a Thing! (Part Three)
JavaScript

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Jun 23, 2019

Let’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…

JavaScript

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Let’s Build a Thing! (Part Two)
Let’s Build a Thing! (Part Two)
JavaScript

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Jun 22, 2019

Let’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. …

JavaScript

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Let’s Build a Thing! (Part One)
Let’s Build a Thing! (Part One)
JavaScript

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Nov 3, 2018

Cloud-First TDD with .net CORE — Part 2

Over 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. …

Gitlab

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Cloud-First TDD with .net CORE — Part 2
Cloud-First TDD with .net CORE — Part 2
Gitlab

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Nov 2, 2018

Cloud-First TDD with .net CORE — Part 1

Everybody 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…

AWS

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Cloud-First TDD with .net CORE — Part 1
Cloud-First TDD with .net CORE — Part 1
AWS

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Sep 22, 2018

Burnout & 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. …

Burnout

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Burnout & You — Recognising the Signs
Burnout & You — Recognising the Signs
Burnout

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Chris Shepherd

Chris Shepherd

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Thoughtworks.com dev, barbershopper, homebrewer and human (not necessarily in that order).

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