David Wickes

work

Senior Software Developer at Acuris

location

London

education

MA Continental Philosophy

joined

Apr 13, 2018

David Wickes

May 8

How To Spell JavaScript

#javascript #humour #beginners

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2 min read

Recent Comments

re: A couple of thoughts from the Python survey results - 2019 May 20

A special mention to that 26% (!!) of people who do web deve...

re: Repl Coding Challenge:Basic Recursion 👯 May 18

Nice work on the recursive solution. Now let's make your cod...

re: Repl Coding Challenge:Basic Recursion 👯 May 17

Hey - looks like you're writing Ruby 😁. Try taking up the pos...

re: JavaScript Clean Code — Test-Driven Development May 17

We only write a test that fails and not makes compilation fa...

re: Recoil - Facebook's own State Management Library May 17

Reminds me of Clojure and ClojureScript libraries from about ...

re: Deno: Node.js Killer? Introduction & Demo | Ryan Dahl May 12

So we can't use NPM modules. But, on the bright side, we can...

re: Is it Webpack or Node? May 12

Very good overview. Also reinforces my view that developers s...

re: How To Spell JavaScript May 11

Lisp is not OO. 🤨 I look forward to convincing you otherw...

David Wickes

Sep 18 '19

#discussRésumé / CV Sift

#discuss #career

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2 min read

David Wickes

Jul 16 '19

TDD an Analogue Clockface in Go

#go #tdd #svg #mathematics

58 3

38 min read

David Wickes

Jul 15 '19

On Developer Fetishes

#shell #frameworks #languages #editor

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6 min read

David Wickes

Jul 14 '19

The Cake Mix Metaphor for Frameworks

#hibernate #java #rant #noframeworks

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1 min read

David Wickes

Jun 23 '19

#healthydebateFront End: Is Anything Getting Better?

#javascript #frontend #healthydebate #spas

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1 min read

David Wickes

Apr 23 '19

#healthydebateDark Side vs Light Side

#discuss #healthydebate #editors #terminal

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1 min read

David Wickes

Apr 10 '19

Why learn... about Media Types

#web #beginners

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10 min read

David Wickes

Apr 2 '19

How I Write Blog Posts These Days

#writing #editors #markdown #vim

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4 min read

David Wickes

Mar 21 '19

Why learn... a statically typed language?

#languages #beginners #types

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10 min read

David Wickes

Nov 26 '18

#showdevTodo-MVP: Or 'Why You Shouldn't Use A Web Framework' - The Revenge

#showdev #webdev #beginners #frameworks

129 114

4 min read

David Wickes

Nov 9 '18

The Unix way... or why you actually want to use Vim

#vim #unix #productivity #bash

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6 min read

David Wickes

Oct 22 '18

The Golden Rule for Junior Developers

#juniors #beginners #advice #career

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3 min read

David Wickes

Oct 19 '18

The World's Simplest "Static Site Generator"

#beginners #staticsitegenerator #tools #noframeworks

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3 min read

David Wickes

Jul 26 '18

Why You Shouldn't Use A Web Framework

#webdev #framework #beginners #react

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4 min read

David Wickes

Apr 13 '18

Learn Go by writing tests: Concurrency

#tdd #go #concurrency

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13 min read

David Wickes

skills/languages

learning/trying

How To Spell JavaScript

Recent Comments

#discussRésumé / CV Sift

TDD an Analogue Clockface in Go

On Developer Fetishes

The Cake Mix Metaphor for Frameworks

#healthydebateFront End: Is Anything Getting Better?

#healthydebateDark Side vs Light Side

Why learn... about Media Types

How I Write Blog Posts These Days

Why learn... a statically typed language?

#showdevTodo-MVP: Or 'Why You Shouldn't Use A Web Framework' - The Revenge

The Unix way... or why you actually want to use Vim

The Golden Rule for Junior Developers

The World's Simplest "Static Site Generator"

Why You Shouldn't Use A Web Framework

Learn Go by writing tests: Concurrency

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