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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.

London Joined on Apr 13, 2018

Education

MA Continental Philosophy

Work

Senior Software Developer at Acuris

Oct 22

Fizz-buzz in TypeScript

#typescript #javascript #typesystems

5 min read

Recent Comments

re: How much of a role should "enthusiasm" play in the software development process? Oct 26

False dichotomy. Developers should be enthusiastic about solv...

re: Fizz-buzz in TypeScript Oct 22

If there is an award for most over-engineered fizz-buzz impl...

re: Server-Side Rendering vs Client-Side Rendering Sep 22

No Chris, you don't understand. You don't want to have to ren...

re: How my website works Aug 28

This is definitely the way ahead Chris. You should have a ser...

re: What terminal do you use? Aug 27

The Dec VT09 is a great terminal. Really customizable too -...

re: Tell me an unpopular software opinion Aug 27

I really recommend both of you disabling JS in your browser a...

re: Tell me an unpopular software opinion Jul 26

Yes you can 😁 - think of it as a forum.

re: Why You Shouldn't Use A Web Framework Jul 15

In my experience (mainly of Ruby), some languages just don't ...

May 8

How To Spell JavaScript

#javascript #humour #beginners

2 min read

Sep 18 '19

Résumé / CV Sift

#discuss #career

2 min read

Jul 16 '19

TDD an Analogue Clockface in Go

#go #tdd #svg #mathematics

38 min read

Jul 15 '19

On Developer Fetishes

#shell #frameworks #languages #editor

6 min read

Jul 14 '19

The Cake Mix Metaphor for Frameworks

#hibernate #java #rant #noframeworks

1 min read

Jun 23 '19

Front End: Is Anything Getting Better?

#healthydebate #javascript #frontend #spas

1 min read

Apr 23 '19

Dark Side vs Light Side

#discuss #healthydebate #editors #terminal

1 min read

Apr 10 '19

Why learn... about Media Types

#web #beginners

10 min read

Apr 2 '19

How I Write Blog Posts These Days

#writing #editors #markdown #vim

4 min read

Mar 21 '19

Why learn... a statically typed language?

#languages #beginners #types

10 min read

Nov 26 '18

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

#showdev #webdev #beginners #frameworks

4 min read

Nov 9 '18

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

#vim #unix #productivity #bash

6 min read

Oct 22 '18

The Golden Rule for Junior Developers

#juniors #beginners #advice #career

3 min read

Oct 19 '18

The World's Simplest "Static Site Generator"

#beginners #staticsitegenerator #tools #noframeworks

3 min read

Jul 26 '18

Why You Shouldn't Use A Web Framework

#webdev #framework #beginners #react

4 min read

Apr 13 '18

Learn Go by writing tests: Concurrency

#tdd #go #concurrency

13 min read

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