You may have spotted a few videos and posts on Instagram about this!
I’m doing a ’10 by 10km’ challenge to raise £5000 for the amazing initiative that is Run4Hope 2020!
That’s ten 10km runs in under 3 weeks! Phew.
Please take a minute to watch the video and click the link below to donate whatever you can! Follow my journey on Instagram.
Thank you.
Instalment #2 in my series on the British Colonial Empire. Don’t judge this gentleman by the colour of his skin.
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To educate myself about Nigeria’s colonial history, I’ve started a little experiment.
I’ll be profiling a prominent individual from the British colonial era once a week in June and posting this on Medium.
Here’s the first.
Yes there is outrage but…
It feels like change is coming.
And if you haven’t seen it already, please take a minute to watch this video giving 5 ways we can all work together to see racism end in our time.
Finally, something I felt compelled to write on the matter on my 4 year old, never been used Medium account!
It’s been quite a while since I last updated this blog. We’re talking practically a year and a half! I do apologise, this tardiness in updating is highly embarrassing. So sorry…. yes, really. Can I go now??
Okay, mental slap on the wrist over, I’m thrilled to share that I’ve been quiet for very good reason – I’ve been especially busy working on business development for Assenty, and contracting full-time as a software engineer!
Lots and lots has happened, there’s been much graft, prayers and tears in the background, and some really, really good developments, not least some of these:
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Are you a developer or maintainer of an app that uses Twitter’s incredibly useful Sign in with Twitter functionality?
Are you suddenly getting error messages similar to the one below when trying to log in?
Callback URL not approved for this client application. Approved callback URLs can be adjusted in your application settings
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So excited to announce this.
Assenty, the social Q&A platform I’ve been bootstrapping over the last year has made it to the final 20 of the prestigious Northern Stars UK tech startup competition, out of over 200 applications. Hooray!!
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Here are the slides from my recent Learn Elixir talk at Manchester Lambda Lounge, the monthly meet up for fan of functional programming languages in Manchester. This is my second talk there, the first, back in October 2016, was a show-and-tell on Assenty, the real-time Q&A web service I’ve been building at assenty.com.
Here are the slides from my recent talk at Manchester Lambda Lounge.
Aimed at a largely non-Erlang/Elixir audience, the talk was about the soft real-time aspects of Elixir/Phoenix and its WebSocket implementation (aka Phoenix channels) – the main inspiration behind the real-time Q&A web service at assenty.com
Manchester Lambda Lounge, in their own words,
“meets monthly to talk about and popularise new ways of thinking about computation. Frequent topics include functional programming, type systems, programming language design and aspects of computer science.”
As Elixir is still relatively new, and case study materials on the Phoenix web framework thin on the ground, I focused on explaining the core components of the web framework with an emphasis on Phoenix channels and, the rationale behind Phoenix and Elixir.
The presentation concluded with a live demo of Assenty. Here is the resultant question board which includes questions asked and answered live by the audience.
I’ve embedded the question that won Gold Question Award below!
It was a good opportunity to meet active members of Manchester’s growing functional programming community to talk code and I look forward to attending another event.
