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Adding Privacy Friendly tracking to my Blog

I’ve recently caved into the idea of adding some tracking onto my blog, but rather than cave completely to the likes of Google Analytics, I’ve opted to investigate some minimal, privacy friendly tracking solutions.

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Advent of Code 2024: Summary of Days 1 to 6

This page serves as the first part of a summary of my experience with Advent of Code 2024. A mentioned in my original post, I decided against forcing myself to learn another programming language as well as opted not to post an article for each challenge.

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Advent of Code 2024

It’s come again, Advent of Code 2024. I don’t think I have ever fully finished one of these, I probably came close in one of the earlier ones during the 2010’s.

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Data Engineering the Right to Erasure

GDPR and specifically, the Right to Erasure (aka ‘right to be forgotten’) are tough nuts to crack in the world of Data. Given our predilection to data hoarding the requirements to be able to erase user information in a timely manner can prove difficult when you have a huge data estate.

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What is Premature Optimisation?

As programmers we’re often taught to take certain things for granted, when it comes to performance. Likewise, we often throw around the Sir Tony Hoare quote, made famous by Donald Knuth: “Premature optimisation is the root of all evil.” But what is premature optimisation?

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