Category: Software Engineering
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WordPress to Ghost to WordPress
This post has been a long time coming! Around 10 years ago, my blog at arran.it was using WordPress. At this time I decided to move it onto the Ghost blogging platform as a test to myself. It was a test because it involved handling most of the infrastructure setup myself, and at the time…
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Applying for a Tech job in 2021
At the start of 2021, I decided to look for the next challenge in my career. I learnt a lot last decade; however, 70% of that time was spent exclusively at one company. It’s time to move on and learn some new skills. The aim of this post is to outline my experience applying for…
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The Rona & WFH
Strange times we’re living in right now, huh? I think everyone can agree, can’t they? As most of us around the world get used to the whole “WFH” vibe, I’ve been sat back watching everyone come to terms with their new working experience. For the last 2 years I’ve been working remotely full-time and I…
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Upgrading to Ruby 2.6.3 and Rails 6.0.0rc1
Recently I was tasked with upgrading a project from Rails 5.2.1 to 6.0.0rc1 and Ruby 2.5.3 to 2.6.3. In past encounters of upgrading Rails apps I’ve always run into issues upgrading gems or resolving version conflicts but this time things ran (pretty) smoothly. First, I had to install Ruby 2.6.3. Easy, right? It should be,…
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A year of Remote Working
It’s been about a year since I delved into the world of full-time remote working and it’s been a good ass year too. There have been a number of challenges to overcome and a few differences to my day-to-day working life, but I think it’s made me more productive. The advantages are no interruptions, no…
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Torquative begins
So, for the last year or so I’ve been working on a Car Forum using the forum software Discourse (seriously go check it out, it’s an awesome product). Torquative came from a marriage of the words torque (power of a vehicle) and talkative. I’m a real car nut, so combining two of my interests seemed…
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Sdf Generator
First post of 2016, keeping it short and sweet. Recently I published my first side project, Sdf Generator. It came to life after I was thinking how when most people seem to button bash their keyboard (for whatever reason) the letters ‘sdf’ seem to appear almost all the time. I also find Lorem Ipsum a…
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Nothing to Junior
I said I was going to try and blog at least once a month (or something like that). I’ve been slacking, as I sit here on the train home I started thinking about work and how far i’ve come in the past two years. In December 2012 I started work at a startup based in…
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OS X Yosemite Beta
As a lot of you already know, OS X Yosemite was released as a beta download recently to the first million users that signed up to their beta program. I was one of that million. Friday I received an email from Apple telling me I could download the beta from the App Store. As an…
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WordPress to Ghost
Around 2 months ago I created my blog with WordPress. I picked a theme, chose a cover photo, updated the site title and tagline and that was it. My intention was to write at least one blog post a week, I didn’t even mind if it was 3 lines long. Anyway, to the point I…