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Alex Dickson

@alexdickson

Aussie in London. Software Engineering.

 London, England
alexanderdickson.com
Joined October 2008
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@kirilln0vOct 1
10k candles. 10 events/sec. 120 FPS. Less than 10% CPU usage on both the UI and JS threads. This is what real-time RN trading app deserves. Built with react-native-trading-charts ↓ GitHub: github.com/kirill3333/react-…
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How A Small Team of Developers Created React at Facebook youtu.be/8pDqJVdNa44?si=TMQ7…
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Interesting to find in 2004 this was the website for "alexanderdickson.com" (not me) web.archive.org/web/20040122…
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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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Mechanical Watch – ciechanow.ski/mechanical-wat…
Mechanical Watch – Bartosz Ciechanowski

Mechanical Watch – Bartosz Ciechanowski

Interactive article explaining how a mechanical watch works.

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Streaming GTA5 on the original Game Boy via WiFi cartridge youtu.be/pX1opw_gsBs
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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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Trying SMD soldering for the first time for a new keyboard
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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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How to send commands to a USB device on OS X without dependencies (only from command line)? stackoverflow.com/q/68228135…
I'm joining the WhatsApp web/desktop team! :D
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brian lowery
@bdlowery28 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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British Python devs be like "that's a constructor, __init__?".
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Fast Inverse Square Root — A Quake III Algorithm youtube.com/watch?v=p8u_k2LI…
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Spaxe@xavier_ho20 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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Vim plugin for VS Code gets so broken so often :(
Stack Overflow has dark mode now 😍
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Felix@felix_kimutai_1 Apr 2020
JavaScript's prototype property blog.alexanderdickson.com/ja… by @alexdickson
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