Written by Gary Hockin @GeeH
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on Sep. 9, 2019
Hi, I’m Gary, a Developer Evangelist for Twilio who’s based in Swansea. So if you’re using Twilio to power your communications or would like to know what we do, I’m the person for you. I’m local and keen to hang out with your dev teams and show you what we can do to help you engage your customers.…
Written by Gary Hockin @GeeH
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on Sep. 4, 2019
This week on the stream I looked at writing a browser-based game that is similar to the fantastic Steam game Slay the Spire. Slay the Spire is a fun roguelike deck-builder game where you fight increasingly difficult monsters as you climb the titular spires. I decided to build a clone of this game…
Written by Gary Hockin @GeeH
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on Apr. 23, 2018
What even is this? This is a full chapter from my started-but-never-finished book called Conference Speaking for Everyone. I’m posting this finished single chapter that’s been sitting on my laptop for nearly a year to a) Get some feedback and hopefully some impetus to finish the book, and b) Put wh…
Written by Gary Hockin @GeeH
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on Feb. 23, 2018
My good friend and fellow PHPUK keynoter, Jenny Wong posted an interesting post on Stage Fright, in which she explains how she minimises the stagefright before going on stage for a keynote talk. It’s fascinating because as those who know me will attest, I get terrible nervousness before going on st…
Written by Gary Hockin @GeeH
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on Sep. 1, 2017
It’s with equal parts excitement and amazement that I’m making myself available for consulting development or training work from the 1st October 2017. This does not mean I’m leaving JetBrains! Luckily for me, I’ve somehow managed to cultivate the unique opportunity to continue with JetBrains as a…
Written by Gary Hockin @GeeH
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on Oct. 10, 2016
One of the most important objectives for the Open Sourcing Mental Illness project is to help people get the support they need for mental health challenges in the workplace. I’m so proud that we’ve had our Mental Health in Tech guidelines available as ebooks from our website for the last six months,…