Mike Moran, software engineer, dad and baldie


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When backend is frontend, and back again

If you're building a mostly-frontend dynamic site, but want to make it share-able on Facebook/Twitter with a nice preview image, then here's one new (slightly weird) way to do it.

Tautona: Visualising similarities between Slack channels

I hadn't done any lo-fi text analysis for ages, and since we've been using Slack at my job for a little while now, it was time to get munging!

L Systems

I first encountered LSystems during university; this was in the mid-90s when fractals were becoming mainstream. However, it was only in 2009/2010, when I needed a toy problem to learn Scala and JAX-RS with, that I started writing renderers.

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