programming perspectives

Who am I?

My name is Paul. People started paying me to write code back in 1997. Since then I've written a lot of code, run a lot of production systems, and debugged a lot of problems. I've also run a lot of teams and interviewed a lot of people

I realised recently that much of what I learn is hidden away in markdown documents, often in private repositorys - while much of what I think about stays in my head or is monologued at any CTO foolish enough to ask... I thought a blog might be a nice

Attributions

We all stand on the shoulders of giants - this is a list of Open Source licensed components that I've used or been inspired by. Thank you all

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Background texture https://www.vecteezy.com/vector-art/1222870-seamless-geometric-triangle-pattern
11ty base blog https://github.com/11ty/eleventy-base-blog
Solarized palette https://ethanschoonover.com/solarized
Social media share links https://github.com/bradvin/social-share-urls
Social media icons https://iconmonstr.com
Sharing for Mastodon https://dev.to/codepo8/adding-a-share-to-mastodon-link-to-any-web-site-485m
Minifying CSS in 11ty https://www.11ty.dev/docs/quicktips/inline-css
Prism syntax highlighting - supported languages https://prismjs.com/#languages-list