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My Google Cloud Functions deployed fine to the Python 3.7 runtime, but failed to build for Python 3.8. Here's how I investigated and discovered the cause.

I migrated this blog from Ghost to a Gatsby-generated static site on Firebase Hosting. But why, and how?

Thoughts on implementing Tiny Types in Kotlin

I’m starting to explore Go (aka Golang) and I have heard a lot that suggests Google App Engine could be a neat solution for deploying very…

I’m writing a lot of Bash scripts at the moment, and I do a lot with environment variables which my scripts expect to have been set (by my…

A couple of days ago I decided to set up a script to run hourly on a Raspberry Pi, to test my broadband connection speed and add the results…

This follows on from Roman Numerals: part I. Last time I had managed to convert these numbers into Roman numerals: My full implementation at…

A few days ago I attempted a Roman Numerals kata, which basically wanted me to implement a function to convert a “normal number” (I took…

This is the first time I’ve felt pleased that I haven’t actually written many posts here. My web host had a storage failure and lost all my…

Back in February, JetBrains released version 1.0 of their JVM language, Kotlin. Read that blog for more on what Kotlin is, but their summary…

In the last six months I’ve had my first real taste of what it’s like working in the modern JavaScript ecosystem. The site my team is…

Welcome to TeaDD, my blog about software craftsmanship. My name is Michael Bannister, and I’m a lead developer in e‑commerce at a large UK…