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The Importance of Deliberate Practise
In this article I cover what deliberate practise is and why is it important to do it.
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Achievements in 2017
Impostor syndrome can really damage your morale and make you feel worthless. As part of my exploration in dealing with it, I've found that listing my achievements helps, so that's what this post is: a list of my 2017 achievements.
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52 Posts in 52 Weeks
One year ago, I set myself the goal of writing 52 blog posts in 52 weeks. "That's not that hard," you might think. Well, why not click through and see whether I made it?
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Announcing: Discworld Disorganiser Web App
Over the past few months, I've been working on a new web application: one a search engine for Discworld novels. I'd used it to fuel a series of tutorial posts over on my .NET Core blog, too. Come read this article to see a few demo versions of the application, get a link to the live version and read about how I made it.
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How I Organise my Blog Posts
Did you know that I write for three blogs... in my spare time? Three?! Are you mad? ... Yes. In this blog post I'll discuss the process that I go through to write and publish a post on one of my three blogs.
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What I’ve Been Doing 2017 Edition
Today’s header image was created by Camille Kimberly, you can find the original here 2017 Has Only Just Begun Really I should have come up with a snappier title for this blog post, but I had no immediate ideas. One of the fundamental laws of computer programming is that naming things Read more…
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Passwords And How They Are Hacked – Some Background Information
Disclaimer: I want to start this post by saying that I am, in no way, a computer security expert. However, the details presented here are correct enough to give a background and starting point for anyone who wants to follow up and dig deeper into the fascinating world of password security. Everything about Read more…
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Trick – The End: My Thoughts
I've been a fan of Trick for over a decade (I'm even working on a translation of Naze Besuto) and as such, it was only natural that I would write about the final movie in the series
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Snappy Title Here
One of the reasons why I’ve been pretty bad at posting lately is that I’ve not had much time to sit and compose a long post (I’ve still got one in the backlog that I’m putting a fair bit of research into). It takes me about an hour to go from Read more…