Month: January 2021
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A Complex Obsession
When I first started programming I was like a gap year student exploring some far-flung bazaar. Every twist a new adventure, each turn a novel experience. Intelligible languages swirling around my ears, but recognisable expressions and hints at meaning abounded. Discovering new paths through what felt like a hidden world was so exciting that it…
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Dynamic Image Compression with Go
This article is part of my learning how to use Go in a production web environment. It’s written in the style of a tutorial, but has plenty of my own notes about my experience. View the complete code here. Since launching an online shop/ordering system for a couple of local pubs last summer, the websites…
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Self Directed
What activities and behaviours that we engage in today will be looked upon as primitive in one or two-thousand years’ time? When we look back such lengths of time our ancestors are so far from us in their understanding of the world and their conduct as to appear profoundly limited in many ways – the…