Chris 
I’m working on a UK Government project at the moment that has a lot of Cypress tests. The way they are set up is not exactly to my taste, but I mention it because it is relevant to the way the code will be structured below. However, the method I use to remove lines from … Read more
My computer is dual use. Gaming, and work. It runs pretty much 24/7/365, but when I play a game at night in Windows, then reboot back into Linux, I have to manually log in and mount my drive(s) or my overnight backups don’t work. Of course, I frequently forget to log in. And even when … Read more
This is one of those problems that is … well, 🤦♂️ face palming-ly easy 🤦♀️ when you see how it’s done. But I confess to spending ages trying to figure this out. And Google wasn’t much help, either. OK, so the problem is this: You want to create a new docker-compose.yaml file in your C# … Read more
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