Stephen Gream's Blog

A few years ago, I decided to do something completely unnecessary and travel to Chicago for a series of guitar workshops. It was 7 days of…

I added some pagination to the blog listing page, took maybe an hour or so. Kinda surprised I manged that. Basically, I edited my to…

So I decided to finally sit down and check out Rust, as it’s a language that’s gaining a large amount of traction and generating buzz for…

My day to day grind at the moment has been configuring new environments as we have new work coming in. I’ve done it enough at this point…

As I alluded to in my bitboard rant a little while ago, I’ve been working on a chess game in my own time. I’ve had a few realisations while…

The current quiet tech battle being fought is against Google’s Federated Learning of Cohorts, or FLoC, which Google is pushing as its…

Create an AWS EC2 AMI and deploy it with Cloudformation

So something interesting I spotted this week was a tool called Endgame. Originally announced by Salesforce, the tool was pulled by the time…

Making Gatsby properly build a page using the FullCalendar component

I’ve always had a fascination with chess, and indeed I played and won trophies for it in school. Long gone are my glory days, however, and I…

UPDATE 11/8/2023 I got a message on LinkedIn asking for an update as one of the links had gone stale. I’ve replaced it with an archive link…

Naturally with any large organisation, they’re only going to be interested in your software if you make it easy for them to integrate it…

Once again, I talk about how I'm changing around my blog

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