Chris 
In this post I’m going to cover how to convert from kebab case to camel case when using C#. The need for converting from kebab case to camel case is a common coding puzzle challenge, and the basis for this post is no different. I have been working through Exercism’s C# track and am on … Read more
If you work on any JavaScript / Node / TypeScript GOV.UK project, sooner or later you will come across the Nunjucks template language. And depending on your prior experience, you may find the whole thing quite limiting or confusing. Personally I think it’s good at what it does. It’s not fancy like React or Vue, … Read more
Recently I have been doing some web scraping in Kotlin, and have now got a regularly updated set of records appearing in my database. An interesting challenge arose when the scraped data was not quite as nice to work with as the web view I was scraping from. With a little front end whizz-bangery, the … Read more
Whenever I pick up a new programming language, sooner or later I get comfortable enough with it to want to tackle my favourite / most common personal programming need: web scraping. Recently I have been playing with Kotlin quite a lot, and am now at the point where I have written a few simple web … Read more
As part of my post on Kotlin Task Scheduling I had a piece of code that used Kotlin’s timerTask function that I wanted to dive deeper into, but that wasn’t the best place to do so. So, this post is going to cover that off. Here’s the code for reference: And to quickly recap at … Read more
Out of nothing other than sheer curiosity, I was wondering how Kotlin (and by extension, Java) handles scheduling tasks. Let’s say that we have a function that we wish to run every 5 seconds. How can we go about achieving that in Kotlin? That was the question I set out to answer. In this post … Read more
I got really lucky with the fix for this one, as it had me scratching my head for a good while. The gist of this is that I had two classes – a base class, and a sub class. I wanted to call a method with the same name on the sub class as exists … Read more
OK, not a true fix today. Not in the sense that I’d like, anyway. The gist of this is that I was trying to follow along with the JetBrains official Introduction to Coroutines and Channels tutorial. I cloned the GitHub repo, and opened in IntelliJ. When the dependencies were downloaded via Gradle, I got the … Read more
All week now I’ve been wanting to have a try with JetBrain’s Compose Multiplatform Desktop. The demos I’ve found looked great. As a heads up though, those demos are all showing OSX as the run target. I am aware that Compose for Desktop can run against Windows, and (interesting to me) Linux. What I was … Read more
In this post I will cover a way to convert only JSON keys from snake_case format to camelCase format, without impacting the values. I hit on this problem today, and found multiple solutions that rely on code to solve this problem. I didn’t need a code solution, as my use case was something of a … Read more