Alex Hedley

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GitHub Copilot

Today I passed the GitHub Copilot exam 🎉!

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YouTube Stats - Mid 2026

I've been trying to release a weekly recording, on a Saturday, since about Nov 2025, you can see the full list here/courses.

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Epson TM-T88V thermal receipt printer

Building an app to print anything

To add to the graveyard of Projects I bought an Epson TM-T88V thermal receipt printer. I'd seen some videos online of people scanning an NFC tag in their kitchen and it printing out the current weather, or their shopping list. Someone also put theirs on the web and allowed anyone to send a message, I need to find the original post about that.

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Statiq - Plugins - Image Gallery

Building Statiq plugins

It's been a little while since I've added any new features to my Static.Plugins library, the last was a Reading Time option to see how long an article might take to get through.

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An Intro To Blazor (Talk)

May’s North East .NET Meetup - hosted by Opencast

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Movem Web - Level Builder

What's a 🏷️movem game without a Level Builder? I never knew the original Amiga game had one until I was looking for some assets for it.

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Movem Solver

I thought it would be nice to create a 🏷️movem solver to help if you get stuck on any level. It also would help for testing new levels.

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VB Form Builder

In a past life I was a balsamiq user. I loved a quick way to mockup a design with a set of common controls. There are many other tools you can do this with.

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Fast Food Order System

For some strange reason I've wanted to create my own_ Fast Food Order System_, I've always liked how the the terminal looked for the staff, although I never worked in one to raise some beer money.

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Maya

I'd first come across Maya in Nov 2023 and added it as a discussion on Cistercian Numerals/ #1 to work on later. As with most of these projects I forgot about it. It wasn't until I was looking back through them all and though I know something that can help.

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