Progression Log

2/26/2026

conference (NDC London, Talk): Keynote: AI-Powered App Development
conference (NDC London, Talk): Supercharging Local Development with Aspire
conference (NDC London, Talk): Building Identity into LLM Workflows with Verifiable Credentials
conference (NDC London, Talk): The Fun Side of Advanced TypeScript: An Interactive Coding Session
conference (NDC London, Talk): Resilient by Design

conference (NDC London, Talk): Progressive Collapse
conference (NDC London, Talk): Application Performance Optimisation in Practice
conference (NDC London, Talk): Modular Code with Examples in C#
conference (NDC London, Talk): If only I had known... (navigating your tech career)
conference (NDC London, Talk): The 1 Trillion Pixel Maze - My Decade-Long Obsession with C# Optimisation
conference (NDC London, Talk): Flying a Drone with Twitter, Bananas & Web APIs

conference (NDC London, Talk): Keynote - The Dangers of Probably-Working Software
conference (NDC London, Talk): Beyond Pub/Sub - Advanced Messaging Patterns
conference (NDC London, Talk): Do It With Style - Rethinking CSS
conference (NDC London, Talk): Modular Monoliths and Other Facepalms
conference (NDC London, Talk): Modern .NET Configuration Practices
conference (NDC London, Talk): Java Sucks (So C# Didn't Have To)
conference (NDC London, Talk): Immutable Patterns of System Design - From Monolith to Agentic AI

leetcode (hashmap): Equal Row and Column Pairs
practice (PostgreSQL, DevOps): started using PostgreSQL via Supabase for a project at work, handling migrations and local development

practice (Event Driven Architecture, RabbitMQ): implemented a dummy distributed notification system

learn (System Design): read chapter 6 and 7 of Building Microservices by Sam Newman
learn (Engineering Practices): started reading Software Engineering at Google

leetcode (prefix sum): Find the Highest Altitude
leetcode (prefix sum): Find Pivot Index
leetcode (hashmap): Unique Number of Occurrences
leetcode (hashmap): Find the Difference of Two Arrays
leetcode (sliding window): Maximum Number of Vowels in a Substring of Given Length
leetcode (sliding window): Max Consecutive Ones III
leetcode (sliding window): Longest Subarray of 1s After Deleting One Element
leetcode (hashmap): Determine if Two Strings Are Close

work (TypeScript): added functionality to an internal library and reviewed pull requests
leetcode (string): Is Subsequence
leetcode (string): String Compression
leetcode (array): Move Zeroes
leetcode (sliding window): Maximum Average Subarray I
leetcode (two pointers): Container With Most Water
leetcode (two pointers): Max Number of K-Sum Pairs

work (Node.js, TypeScript, TypeDoc, CI/CD): wrote documentation for an internal library and added a workflow to deploy generated website to github pages
leetcode (dynamic programming): Longest Palindromic Substring
leetcode (linked list): Remove Duplicates from Sorted List
leetcode (prefix sum): Find the Highest Altitude
leetcode (prefix sum): Find Pivot Index
plan (AWS, Microservices, Go): decided to combine my recent learning of AWS and microservices into a project, at least one microservice will use Go
learn (local-first software): listened to more discussions about local-first software and watched a video explaining the architecture of a web app built with it

learn (React Router 7): read documentation and got familiar with differences between it and Next.js
work (Node.js, TypeScript): added testing and more features to a library at work
leetcode (array): Median of Two Sorted Arrays
leetcode (linked list): Add Two Numbers
leetcode (sliding window): Longest Substring Without Repeating Characters
plan (Go project): decided to start a Go web services project to learn more about the language and ecosystem