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David Wickes

British. Strong opinions held weekly. No, that's not a typo. Teaches when and where and what I can.

Location London Joined Joined on  Personal website https://blog.gypsydave5.com github website twitter website

Education

MA Continental Philosophy

Work

Senior Software Developer at Acuris

Three Books
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Three Books

#discuss #career #beginners
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Go Luddites
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Go Luddites

#go #culture #blub
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Fizz-buzz in TypeScript
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Fizz-buzz in TypeScript

#typescript #javascript #typesystems
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5 min read
How To Spell JavaScript
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How To Spell JavaScript

#javascript #humour #beginners
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Résumé / CV Sift
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Résumé / CV Sift

#discuss #career
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TDD an Analogue Clockface in Go
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TDD an Analogue Clockface in Go

#go #tdd #svg #mathematics
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38 min read
On Developer Fetishes
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On Developer Fetishes

#shell #frameworks #languages #editor
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The Cake Mix Metaphor for Frameworks
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The Cake Mix Metaphor for Frameworks

#hibernate #java #rant #noframeworks
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Front End: Is Anything Getting Better?
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Front End: Is Anything Getting Better?

#healthydebate #javascript #frontend #spas
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Dark Side vs Light Side
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Dark Side vs Light Side

#discuss #healthydebate #editors #terminal
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Why learn... about Media Types
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Why learn... about Media Types

#web #beginners
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10 min read
How I Write Blog Posts These Days
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How I Write Blog Posts These Days

#writing #editors #markdown #vim
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Why learn... a statically typed language?
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Why learn... a statically typed language?

#languages #beginners #types
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Todo-MVP: Or 'Why You Shouldn't Use A Web Framework' - The Revenge
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Todo-MVP: Or 'Why You Shouldn't Use A Web Framework' - The Revenge

#showdev #webdev #beginners #frameworks
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The Unix way... or why you actually want to use Vim
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The Unix way... or why you actually want to use Vim

#vim #unix #productivity #bash
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6 min read
The Golden Rule for Junior Developers
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The Golden Rule for Junior Developers

#juniors #beginners #advice #career
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The World's Simplest "Static Site Generator"
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The World's Simplest "Static Site Generator"

#beginners #staticsitegenerator #tools #noframeworks
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Why You Shouldn't Use A Web Framework
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Why You Shouldn't Use A Web Framework

#webdev #framework #beginners #react
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Learn Go by writing tests: Concurrency
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Learn Go by writing tests: Concurrency

#tdd #go #concurrency
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