January 2024

This month I started a full-stack development position which will see me getting more involved in front-end development.

Here are some of the solutions I created:

• Cross browser JavaScript code to copy a HTML table’s content to the clipboard, so that the data can be pasted into Excel.
• JavaScript code to convert a Google Chart’s SVG representation to an IMG element, so that the browsers standard “Copy Image” feature could be used to allow the user to copy the image into a presentation.
• An AWS Lambda Function URL written in Go which rotates all the pages within a PDF document. The PDF is submitted to the API as a base64 encoded body. The API then rotates the PDF and returns the rotated version.

I had a need to install the dotnet sdk 8.0 on my Ubuntu development machine so that I could re-compile/build a .NET 5 project to use the .NET 8.0 Long Term Support runtime.

Banding

Links

• How to Achieve Dynamic SQL Query With Go
• Running Go behind IIS
• Validate an email address in Go

Reading

Still reading Welcome to the Silent Zone.

Listening

Still listening to Hell Divers book 6 Allegiance, although I have paused it after starting listening to the Aeon 14 series by M. D. Cooper. Narrated by Khristine Hvam it’s a good listen and I’m totally hooked on the story.

Watching

By writing down what I watch I can review how much TV I consume. It’s shocking, but here is the list for January:

• Fool Me Once
• Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
• Reacher
• Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire
• The Traitors - S2