Ndifreke Ekott

Thoughts, stories, ideas and programming

22 Sep 2022

Brain Dump Friday - It is mostly in your head

Life throws opportunities that you never expected or weren't exactly prepared for. At first you are scared but plodding along and realising there was nothing to it, reveals the fear was all in your head.

30 Aug 2022

Good Bye PHP. Embracing New Overlords Beyond

For the bulk of my career at least in the last seven to eight years, PHP, the web's programming language, has featured predominantly in my CV. It paid the bills, I devoted time to honing my skills and keeping up with frameworks and new language features as the language grew.

14 Aug 2022
12 May 2022

Brain Dump - May 13th Friday 2022

A collection of thoughts I have had over the week but unable to write a complete article on it. So this week - Finances, kids helping out, 91k Civil Servants to be kicked out of jobs, rumours about a recession in tech salaries. Automation and flutter release

07 Mar 2021

The future of the web will be statically typed

The bulk of the web runs on Javascript but as the web becomes more integral into the way we do business today, dynamically languages are slowly tacking on those features from languages like Java we once hated.