Aussie in London. Software Engineering.
Joined October 2008
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11 Dec 2023
How A Small Team of Developers Created React at Facebook youtu.be/8pDqJVdNa44?si=TMQ7…
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8 Nov 2023
Interesting to find in 2004 this was the website for "alexanderdickson.com" (not me) web.archive.org/web/20040122…
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28 Oct 2023
I'm going to update my website soon to make my blog posts available again. I've ditched Ruby for a simple Node app to serve them.
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5 Oct 2021
If I marked for edit too many commits with git's interactive rebase, is there a way to git rebase --continue until we're back at the tip?
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Here's what it was like developing for NES back in 1990. This video shows me running the Software Creations' IDE on a DOS PC and then loading up some of my NES Silver Surfer source files. We used our own in-house dev tools and the game was written in 6502 assembly language.
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3 Jul 2021
Does anyone use a footswitch to help code? Looking for ideas on which key (or combination) to bind it to. Thanks!
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3 Jul 2021
How to send commands to a USB device on OS X without dependencies (only from command line)? stackoverflow.com/q/68228135…
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28 Feb 2021
It's always fun looking up an extremely simple Javascript question on Google and then seeing the person who asked the question 11 years ago is now working at Facebook.
Crazy. @alexdickson
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10 Feb 2021
British Python devs be like "that's a constructor, __init__?".
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20 Nov 2020
Turns out my browser has a 'unique fingerprint' that can still be tracked. This is needed effort for awareness - coveryourtracks.eff.org/
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1 Apr 2020
JavaScript's prototype property blog.alexanderdickson.com/ja… by @alexdickson
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