Lyndon Codes

Welcome to Lyndon Armitage's Blog.
I mostly write about programming and technology related subjects, for more information on me see my about page.

Any posts contained are my own opinions and musings and are not representative of my employer.

Recent Posts

AdventOfCode 2023

It’s that time of year again. Time to commit to participating in AdventOfCode 2023 only to not finish it. In seriousness, I’ve tried to finish for a few years but always find other commitments get in the way. Nevertheless, I am going to be doing Advent of Code 2023!

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Refreshing my NeoVim Installation

As I mentioned many moons ago, I use the text editor Vim as one of my daily drivers. To be precise I actually use NeoVim. Recently I have decided to clean up my configuration files and I plan on documenting that adventure here.

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Gemini Search Engine Part 1a: Crawling

In this post I will go into the first part of building my Gemini Search Engine WhichFire: Crawling/Spidering.

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I Don't Like Mocks

I don’t like software Mocks or Mocking frameworks in general. In my experience they don’t really help when it comes to testing software, at least the kind I work on, and the frameworks themselves are a nightmare to deal with.

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Creating a Gemini Search Engine

This is the first post in a series about creating a search engine for the Gemini internet technology. In it, we will briefly discuss what Gemini is and the basics of creating a Search Engine.

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