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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.

Education

MA Continental Philosophy

Work

Senior Software Developer at Acuris

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Three Books

Three Books

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Go Luddites

Go Luddites

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Fizz-buzz in TypeScript

Fizz-buzz in TypeScript

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How To Spell JavaScript

How To Spell JavaScript

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Résumé / CV Sift

Résumé / CV Sift

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TDD an Analogue Clockface in Go

TDD an Analogue Clockface in Go

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On Developer Fetishes

On Developer Fetishes

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The Cake Mix Metaphor for Frameworks

The Cake Mix Metaphor for Frameworks

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Front End: Is Anything Getting Better?

Front End: Is Anything Getting Better?

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Dark Side vs Light Side

Dark Side vs Light Side

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Why learn... about Media Types

Why learn... about Media Types

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How I Write Blog Posts These Days

How I Write Blog Posts These Days

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Why learn... a statically typed language?

Why learn... a statically typed language?

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

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

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

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

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The Golden Rule for Junior Developers

The Golden Rule for Junior Developers

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The World's Simplest "Static Site Generator"

The World's Simplest "Static Site Generator"

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Why You Shouldn't Use A Web Framework

Why You Shouldn't Use A Web Framework

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Learn Go by writing tests: Concurrency

Learn Go by writing tests: Concurrency

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