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My Take on Decoration Methods in Ruby
One of the fundamentals of computing is that the way that information is presented on the screen is different to the way that it is stored or processed. Today’s date, for instance, could be stored as a number (1620000000) or as a string (2021-05-03 00:00:00 +0000) or really any format. There will always be multiple…
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To Import or Perhaps Not?
I keep a journal using a little Rails app I built. Nothing super fancy. It’s just so I can write what I’m thinking and feeling throughout the day. Every so often I look back and think about whether I’m okay with how things are going. Some issues came up and I ended up merging my…
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GitHub Default Branch
Two days ago GitHub changed their default branch name from master to main. Though this was not mentioned on their blog or changelog it was reported on fairly widely. It reached Hacker News wherein many discussions occurred. Many response articles have been written, which are worth a read if you’re interested. I think there are two questions at play: Why should it be changed? and What should it be changed…
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The Myth of Isolation Productivity
I don’t need to cover the story so far. COVID-19 is happening and it’s bad. Many are sick, many have lost their lives. Many are scared. We are seeing tremendous unity whilst also being at our most isolated. Stories of triumph and survival immediately followed by news of more storms. The future cost to us…
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How I Wrote and Recorded my First Song
The recording for this song began in early 2018. I was starting out as a music student at QUT and was keen to be working on new music. This particular song came chorus first. Sometime in 2017 I was playing piano with a friend on bass and I stumbled across what became the main vocal…
Natalie Rose
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Transfem software engineer, musician & lover of fast cars. Interested in making the web a better place for everyone!
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I currently work as an engineer at a financial services provider. I also devote my spare time to working on a few community projects including The Grants Hub and an open source reboot of The Lacuna Expanse called TLE Community.
I’m available for consulting work with years of experience in: JavaScript/TypeScript, Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Perl, PHP, MySQL/MongoDB, React/Vue, and various CSS frameworks.
Contact me via natalie@omg.lol
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Musically, I play bass in the band Diaspora the Explorer, with some other projects in the works. Occasionally I upload tunes to my Youtube channel.
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