Alex Hedley

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2025 In Review

Last year I wrote my 2024 In Review, it's time for 2025!

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🎯 Darts

Back when I passed my G.C.S.E.s many moons ago I got a dart board and some Eric Bristow darts. It was a staple game played in my Gran's garage for many years. It since moved with me to various houses then it was up in my garage for a number of years. Must have gotten damaged as I bought a new one with a cabinet. That lost the will in weather so I thought let's move in doors.

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🎷 Saxophone - Books 4

Classic Rock Instrumental Play-Along for Alto Sax
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1540053261
£14.99

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Streaming Equipment 4

A peek behind the curtain, or in front of the green screen :p.

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Streaming Equipment 3

There was an Amazon Prime sale so I bought more recording equipment I probably don't need but have been on my wishlist for a while.

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Streaming Setup

Previous purchases: Streaming Equipment, Streaming Equipment 2 Streaming Equipment 3

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.NET by Example

In this post I will explain how I built .NET by Example, a clone of Go by Example, using the updated nocco tool I've recently been working on.

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Keyboards

A few years back when I was watching a stream from @praeclarum on his Twitch channel I heard the dulcet tones of a mechanical keyboard. I think it was a Redragon which is probably why I purchased my own.

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Deploying .NET nocco using GitHub Action

via GitHub Actions

In my previous blog post .NET nocco I explained upgrading an old version of nocco to the latest, and making it a .NET tool. Now that I have both of these setup and configured I can use GitHub Pages to deploy my code.

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.NET nocco

Updating nocco to .NET 9

In this post I will talk through how I updated Don Wilson's (@dontangg) nocco from .NET Framework v4.0 to .NET (Core) v9.

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