davemackintosh/dav3.co

My personal blog

👋 I'm Dave Mackintosh, a full stack Software Developer with a strong focus on good human interaction, security and adding value using technology.

It all started when I was 8 years old in '96, when my granddad showed me some BASIC on his computer upstairs to control his telescope.

This fascinated me enough to choose it as both my career and my hobby starting from hardware manufacturing to technical support and network engineer to now a full stack engineer with experience from circuit design to website design and delivery with almost everything in between.

When I'm not coding I'm usually cooking, cycling or walking with my family in the woods.

Technologies and concepts I'm good at and enjoy using and teaching:

Languages/Frameworks	Technologies/Concepts
Rust	PostgreSQL and DynamoDB databases
JavaScript/TypeScript	Systems and data design, provision, cost optimisation and regulations
Svelte UI	Accessibility (pro-active and retro-active)
React	IAC with CDK and Terraform enabling automated devops, secops and opsec
Python	Optimisation of workloads with well known methods (hex architecture, data driven design systems such as CQRS, ECS, event sourcing implementations.
Golang	Serverless architecture
Swift and SwiftUI

You can find me at the following links if you ever want to chat.

🕸 Website

🐘 Mastodon

💼 LinkedIn

📥 Email

dav3.co's Issues

Add build step in config to copy assets over

Syntax highlighter is fucked in production build

It's properly fucked Dave.

Create a post about my dotfiles

Build process is eating the site footer.

Why is there no footer...

Add work history page with print stylesheet

Radix trie algorithm for routing, rate limiting and ip blocking

I am writing a radix trie implementation for various functions in the upcoming 1.0 release of Multicolour.

Fast text searching for parsing POST data

I wrote my own Boyer Moore Horspool algorithm for the upcoming Multicolour 1.0 release.

It took me a while because I literally had no idea how to write such an algorithm.

Switch to Preact or anything other than a Facebook product.

Facebook is just an evil, evil company and using their product implies my support of their practices when in-fact I absolutely do not.

I want to switch to Preact

Fix external links not routing in dev mode

This should replace with the escaped match

dav3.co/webpack/webpack.config.ts

Lines 76 to 77 in d55f667

	"global.$content.pages": `'${JSON.stringify(pages).replace(/(?:\r\n|\r|\n)/g, "\\\\n")}'`,
	"global.$content.posts": `'${JSON.stringify(posts).replace(/(?:\r\n|\r|\n)/g, "\\\\n")}'`,

minify HTML and remove all comments and generated attributes

Generate microdata for each page.

Using NodeJS multi-threading

Make the markdown component a contenteditable component

This is a super nice to have but involves a few pieces of technology.

I'll need to:

• Create a server that will take markdown content and write it to file.
• Make the markdown component contenteditable so content can be added in place.
• Add some kind of CMS-ey menu for creating pages and posts and all of the associated frontmatter attributes.
• Some way to handle pasted image data and uploading to an assets folder. Currently I manually paste into a Github issue and copy paste the image url it gives me. I want to disassociate with Github wherever possible.

Why?

• Mainly for spell checking because I can't type for shit apparently.
• It'll be cool as heck and tonnes to learn about real time editing and previewing of Markdown content.
• Allows me to get a better idea of how content will flow on my site.

NodeJS Window Manager

I want to learn about how something we all use in some way or another works. These are window managers, they're responsible for placing, displaying, animating, resizing and moving all the windows on your screen.

As a Linux user, I want to build my own X11/Wayland client from scratch and create a tiling window manager with some widgets to show system information such as WiFi, screen brightness, system volume. I also want to use the Shape extension to enable rounded windows (more on this later.)

I know nothing about creating an X11/Wayland client so this would be really interesting and opens up controlling your system with JavaScript.

P.S. I know there exists an existing x11 client library but I don't want to spend time adding TypeScript typings to a library to not learn how to do it myself and learn about that problem space.

Newsletter to aggregate new content/projects

Move from Github Pages to Cloudflare Workers

Due to

• the way Github treats it's workers
• handles reports of abuse from members of staff
• has contracts with ICE

I will be moving away from Github Pages to Cloudflare Workers using Wrangler.

I can't seem to find a decent git alternative that doesn't blatantly want to work with ICE and fuck knows what other horrible companies so I'm stuck with my repos here but I can at least move my hosting to CloudFlare.

Use CSS::before on tag links instead of an actual # in the anchor.

Add helmet values to html template

Budge It blog post