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I'm Alec, an Australian/British developer advocate, who's been in IT a long time

  • 😄 Pronouns: He/Him/Grumpy
  • ⌨️ Preferred Progamming Language: Go and Python, but I use several others
  • 🔭 I like presenting tutorials, for example a talk about using Git from PowerShell
  • 🌏 Located in Melbourne Australia
  • 💻 First Computer Program written on ICL 2904 mainframe in 1978 using MAXIMOP BASIC. No "Hello World" for me, it printed the multiplication tabels from 2 to 12, but I only knew about IF and GOTO flow control statements.

My last five blog posts

Title Description Date
Introduction Spectral and API linting Use Spectral to lint your Open API Specification Documents 09 Jun 2024
Automate Git With Lefthook Git Hooks are cool, but hard to use consistantly – do it better with LeftHook 01 Jun 2024
Spell Check with Vale Implement better spellchecking with Vale custom spelling rules 27 May 2024
Add Vale to Your Project Use Vale text linting to improve your technical writing and automate your style guide 09 May 2024
Use GitHub Actions to update your profile page Update your GitHub profile README with content from an RSS feed the hard way 07 Oct 2023

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Alec Clews's Projects

gitmarks_2 icon gitmarks_2

Gitmarks 2.0. is a peer to peer bookmarking tool.

gitprivatedata icon gitprivatedata

Removes and adds confidential data when Git either adds a file or does a checkout

go-lifx icon go-lifx

Go implementation of the LIFX bulb protocol, including a command line client, a client library, and a debug-oriented traffic snooper

gpd icon gpd

Getting Pomodoros Done

homebrew-cask icon homebrew-cask

A CLI workflow for the administration of Mac applications distributed as binaries

intro2 icon intro2

Various examples to introduce various programming concepts to novices

keepassx icon keepassx

KeePassX is a cross platform port of the windows application “Keepass Password Safe”.

lca2014 icon lca2014

Code from my Introduction to Go tutorial at LCA2014.

macosxproductivitytips icon macosxproductivitytips

The companion content and links to the O'Reilly Mac OSX Productivity Tips for Developers video series

mazesolving icon mazesolving

A variety of algorithms to solve mazes from an input image

notion-sdk-py icon notion-sdk-py

Python rewrite (sync + async) of the official Notion API client

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