Portfolio

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...

As a follow up to the Kubernetes courses I completed earlier, I've been working through a Helm course which I completed today. I'm not an expert on either yet, but it's good to have the basics unde...

It's been some years since I really did any frontend development in anger, so I've been brushing up on my skills. With that in mind, I've just completed Asim Hussain's "Advanced JavaScript" course ...

In my first steps with Kubernetes I managed to deploy Traefik, and then after setting up cert-manager I enabled the Traefik dashboard using basic authentication and Let's Encrypt to keep it secure....

Just finished working through “Hands-on-Rust”. Definitely got a firm grip on modules now, which I found a bit confusing when I first picked up Rust. Also learned about the ECS pattern, and a couple...

Just finished Bret Fisher's excellent course on Kubernetes. I'm sure there will be further additions to it in the future, but for now it's time to get my feet wet and start building something with ...