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So I don’t usually cover news type topics but this recent development is huge, much bigger than most people think so I had to make a video on it. It revolves around Apple and Google banning on the most popular games in the world, Fortnite. But this has much bigger implications than  just for that one game, and here I’ll break it down for you.

IntelliJ IDEA is one of my favourite IDEs, and a key reason for that is the great shortcuts that makes my life easier when developing software.

So you want some help beating your friends or family at Scrabble? Well this may be the answer.

Having worked in numerous organisations where PII data is vitally important, especially in the era of GDPR, I’ve seen first hand many implementations of Encryption and Hashing.

First you need to alter your startup script. On Linux and older Mac OSs this is ~/.bashrc, however on Mac OS Catalina this may be ~/.zshrc.

Here’s a quick one regarding deleting all untagged docker images. This occurred when docker image prune wasn’t deleting all the unused images I had.

What better feature for the background in your new YouTube videos than a live updating subscriber counter? Well now you can build one for just a few dollars/pounds!

Thinking of learning to code in 2020? Watch this video from Devscover’s Wayne about the best ways to learn

Lets take 3 of the top languages and look if they are pass-by-value or pass-by-reference

So you’ve created an EC2 but not given it enough storage. Now you’ve run out and are wondering how you change it.

Here’s a quick video I made showing how you can track bitcoin prices with your very own ticker board. Requirements below

So you have an ECS cluster running with an image on ECR. Want to update the image that cluster is running via the CLI? Here’s how you do it:

Ever had trouble writing an .img file to an SD card for your Raspberry Pi? Here’s how to do it without installing any other programs.

How to reduce commits using Git CLI

So you want to improve as a Software Engineer? There are plenty of blogs and tutorials online, but they often lack the depth of understanding that you can get from a real book. 

So you’ve landed yourself a great gig as a developer, and have a specific thing you’re asked to work on. Fantastic. However, don’t let that stop you from learning and exploring.

*Assuming basic knowledge of AWS and Java

Working at a big retail client in the UK, we had a problem where had some very sensitive data in S3 buckets, and we needed to move that data into SnowFlake without a person having access, and being able to see that data.

I built a function in a spring-boot app that consisted of a controller, service layer and repository. I wanted to ensure that when a user sent two values to the controller, it would throw an error back to the user, with an appropriate status code without having to pass the data on to the service and have it continue. The aim was to find an annotation that Spring could use to return a specific status code of my choosing with a reason. So, a bit of digging into the documentation and I found @ResponseStatus

A short post on a bug that really gave me a headache recently.

I once worked at a large establishment, populated by hundreds of developers. There were many times when I heard “Oh that guy John is an amazing programmer, he can write whole applications in half a day”. Or “Josie is fantastic, she wrote an algorithm to do so fast! She deserves a promotion”.

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(with apologies to Jeff Atwood)