Purposeful Tech

When I was younger, tech was exciting for what I could do with it... now, it excites me with what it can do for me. Whether it's the tech or myself that is changing, I know that what I want now is Purposeful Tech

Wednesday, 10 August 2022

Pushover Plugin for IntelliJ

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One of the more annoying problems I face on a daily basis is the slow compile times of my current primary project at work. To be fair, this...

Sunday, 19 June 2022

Eliminating a Joda Time Dependency

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A short time ago, I started work on a new project, which would be based on the Scala Play framework. Part of this project required some aut...

Sunday, 22 July 2018

Deploying create-react-app on nginx with a separate backend

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So... you've followed the instructions here and created your shiny new React app, with its own server-side element. Now you want to de...

Wednesday, 22 November 2017

Windows 10 Fall Creators Update Emoji in the UK

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The Windows 10 Fall Creators update had a shiny new feature: hit [Win+]; or [Win+.] and you get a popup appear that lets you enter emoji dir...

Sunday, 22 October 2017

iOS 11 Upgrade Woes

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iOS 11 is here, and with it the demise of any 32-bit apps that you might have been using. Apple helpfully provides a way to see which apps w...

Sunday, 15 October 2017

Simple Score Pad - Released!

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Ladies & gentleman, boys and girls, prepare to be astonished, perplexed and... disappointed! Yes, it's that time - I've finall...

Sunday, 12 March 2017

Aggregating Reports in Multi-Module Maven Projects

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With a highly complex multi-module Maven build, it can be very useful to use the Site generation feature of Maven to produce HTML reports fo...

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