Adam K Dean

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Hello World!

Published 1 December 2022 in miscellaneous with tags general , programming If you're a programmer, you're probably very familiar with the famous "Hello World" program. This simple program, which typically prints the words "Hello World" to the screen, is often used as the first program that beginners write when learning a new programming language. Continue reading …

BBC Micro:bit — a story of curiosity

Published 12 November 2022 in electronics with tags programming , hardware , electronics I have a six year old (let's call him v2.0). His brain never stops, and my work as an engineer (primarily software) seems to be of great interest to him. He asks lots of questions, but also knows during incidents that I need to focus. After a particularly difficult incident a few months ago, he congratulated me on fixing the "glitch" and called me a "glitch hunter". Continue reading …

10 Tips For New Coders

Published 7 October 2022 in archive with tags beginners , programming , hacktoberfest , codenewbie I've been reading and writing code since the year 2000. Before we had Stack Overflow and Codeacademy, we had two real resources for learning: giant dusty tomes filled with scraps of paper, and websites like PlanetSourceCode where you could download zips of entire projects. Continue reading …

Slack Notifications with GitHub Actions

Published 14 August 2020 in archive with tags actionshackathon , slack , github , actions When I first started working with GitHub about a month ago, there were already quite a few Slack notification actions available, but I found each to either be cumbersome to use, or lacking what seemed like simple features such as status based messages. Continue reading …

Notes on Remote Working

Published 27 March 2020 in archive with tags career , life , leadership So with the ongoing global crisis, a lot of governments and organisations are recommending that people, if they can, work from home. We're seeing memes flying around, new jokes being created, and also quite a few questions from people who haven't really worked remotely before. Continue reading …



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