This is my yearly thread reviewing the best vanguard funds UK 2023. Last year, I carried out a comparison across different funds here. Selecting stocks and shares to invest in is a completely personal decision. There are different funds that suit different people and purposes, and ultimately nobody could know if any of the below …
Recently C# 10 and .net 6 were released, with them came a whole host of features. In this post, I’m looking at the best new features of C# 10 and giving a brief explanation/demo of them. This post is largely looking at the highlights, rather than doing an in-depth review of all of the new …
Recently I came across a situation where I needed to collect a large volume of data from google drive. This is a quick write-up of how I used Python to download docs from google drive. Enabling API Access Authentication with APIs is often the hardest part of using them, this wasn’t an exception. You can …
To help others with financial independence goals, I thought I’d list out my top 4 best vanguard funds UK. Selecting a stock and shares to invest in is a completely personal decision. There are different funds that suit different people and purposes, and ultimately nobody could know if any of the below funds will go …
Quickly and easily generate a Cartesian product in Excel. This looks at using two datasets and joining them to get every possible combination of values.
This post looks into making Lightsail Virtual Private Servers to reduce cost and increase the performance of your website.
Over the last few years, I’ve been “casually coding” my way to financial independence. Generally, I’ve tracked this using the accountants best friend, excel. Recently, I’ve felt like I should start making a financial independence app for myself. In this series, I’ll run through how I built my tracker app. Why build your own? There’s …
One of the most recent programming interview tasks I had was to develop a program that looked at the frequency of words used in a book. In particular, we were looking at analysing Alice in wonderland with C# for the most commonly occurring words. Additionally, I had thirty minutes to complete the challenge. The approach …
Recently I stumbled into a problem where I wanted to access, and Read messages from the Dead Letter Queue. Because Azure has changed so much over time, there’s now a massive amount of misinformation on the best way to read messages from the dead letter queue. In this post, I wanted to show the way …
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A little further down the list of top programming languages, the Async keyword popped up. This didn’t surprise me as asynchronous programming is critical in modern programming. This runs through how to use Await and Async in C#. These asynchronous methods are fantastic as they allow you to execute multiple sets of code in parallel. …
