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Go is a language that I've learned and forgotten a number of times. Decided to take a course to refresh my memory. Now that I've finished it, I'll start a few mini projects to help cement it all.

I'm in the process of looking into how to setup react/typescript/node projects. Just finished a short course on monorepos with npm.

It's a while since I've done any studying, circumstances have meant that time has been short. I've picked up again after new year, and have finished my first course. It's a nice introduction to SVG...

It's taken me a while, especially with a break over the last few months while personal circumstances took priority, but I've finally finished Maximilian Schwarzmüller's comprehensive course on Reac...

Finished reading "Rust Brain Teasers". It's a shortish book that presents you with various snippets of code and you have to figure out whether they compile and what happens when they run. It's a wa...

Finished Tim McNamara's newly released course "Rust Code Challenges". It's ideal for beginner to intermediate Rust devs looking to get some practice in. I'm probably beyond that level now, but I st...

Today I completed the 2021 edition of Advent of Code. It was a good workout for both my problem solving and Rust skills. I used Dijkstra's algorithm, dynamic programming, built an interpreter etc.....

I am continuing my efforts to update my frontend skills (I've not done any serious frontend work in a few years). As such a few days ago I finished an HTML & CSS course . I was familiar with all th...

Finished a course on data structures and algorithms in Rust. It's not comprehensive, but it does show how to structure code and use smart pointers. A nice foundation for further exploration...

Made some time this week to do a bit more with Helm and Kubernetes. Using GitHub Actions I now have a small Rust API that is tested, built and deployed to k8s automatically on each commit. It was f...

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