Daren Chandisingh 🌱🚴

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Member of the Guardian-reading, tofu-eating wokerati 🌱🌍🚴🇬🇧🇬🇾🇪🇺

Liverpool supporting #vegan #cyclist. #YNWA

#Overwatch support main. Mostly Moira.

I've quit and restarted World of Warcraft more times than I like to admit. #ForTheHorde

Work as a web developer. Mostly #PHP.

I identify as #autistic, #bi/pansexual and possibly #nonbinary (although I'm still trying to work that out)

#cycling #gaming #WorldOfWarcraft #WebDev #LFC #fedi22

LocationLancaster, UK
Webhttps://wwwicked.com
GitHubhttps://darenc.github.io
BlueSkyhttps://bsky.app/profile/wwwicked.com
Daren Chandisingh 🌱🚴May 12, 2025
Apropos of nothing, I put the bi pride flag colours in my shell prompt. I don't actually have anything to show in those segments, mind
Daren Chandisingh 🌱🚴May 1, 2025

Guess who got to the polling station and _then_ remembered he needed to take photo ID? Luckily it's a nice day for two walks to the polling station. 😆

I voted Green, obviously.

No photo of my bike at the polling station; as I said, I walked. \o/

Daren Chandisingh 🌱🚴Jul 4, 2024
Don't mind if I do! #BikesAtPollingStations
Daren Chandisingh 🌱🚴Mar 3, 2024
Why do people insist of calling programming languages "-lang"? "Golang" (Go), "Dlang" (D), "Ziglang" (Zig), "Erlang" -- OK, I'll give them that one. But still...
Daren Chandisingh 🌱🚴Nov 24, 2023
2023 mince pie season started early. Current tally: 3
Daren Chandisingh 🌱🚴Nov 22, 2023
This week I learnt that people deep fry turkeys. It feels like the time I found out that the Christingle was a thing.
Daren Chandisingh 🌱🚴Nov 20, 2023

I was thinking, does every programming language, API or SDK etc. have at least one book that "everyone" knows or understands which book is meant by something other than its given title?

I'm thinking K&R, Stroustrup, Petzold, the camel book.

I guess Petzold isn't a great example as the book people think of would vary by generation (for me it's Programming Windows 3rd edition), although I suppose it's still ostensibly about the same thing.

#IdleThoughts

Daren Chandisingh 🌱🚴Nov 10, 2023
Annoyingly, BBC /news/av/ pages don't seem to update the browser history when they auto-play the next video. The URL changes, but it doesn't get reflected. Just noticed when it happened while I was reading the text below the video and tried to go back to the one I was watching. A bit of a UX failure there.
Daren Chandisingh 🌱🚴Oct 29, 2023
The term "hockey stick" (as in "our app hockey sticked" or "hockey stick graph") just started to make a lot more sense when I realised they mean an ice hockey stick, not a field hockey stick 😂
Daren Chandisingh 🌱🚴Oct 27, 2023

Goodbye Jspm, Gulp, Jest, Babelify, Browserify, Uglify, Mocha, Chai and a whole lot of other stuff, hello ESBuild, Vite and Vitest. Still building with ESBuild because I couldn't get Vite (Rollup) to build separate self-contained bundles.

Node module vulnerabilities down from 130 to 10. Once I can upgrade to Vue 3, that number should finally come down 0.