Alex Hedley

Design System Chat - September 2025

Published on Tuesday 30 September 2025

Join us for September 2025's Design System Chat to discuss Service Patterns. Hosted by the GOV.UK Design System.

BSides Newcastle 2025

Published on Saturday 27 September 2025

Such a cool badge from the sponsor Punk Security.

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.

.NET Meetup Newcastle - Aug 2025

Smarter Apps - Using Postgres SQL with .NET + Business As First Class

Published on Wednesday 27 August 2025

.NET Meetup

Utility Kotlin

Published on Wednesday 6 August 2025

For the past 10+ years I've been building a Utility app to speed up day to day tasks. It started with a VB.NET version for encoding/decoding HTML to help with log files in Symantec Workflow. It grew with other functionality include SQL generation etc. From that I used the opportunity to build a macOS app to try out my Objective-C ability on a desktop app, instead of the iOS apps I'd been building. To make it more accessible I created a Web version then swapped to WPF and finally a Blazor one a few years after that. Having switched back to Java and now Kotlin dev, in the past couple of years, it seemed a good opportunity to try my hand at Kotlin Multiplatform. Having seen the power of WASM with Blazor it was a no brainer. Hopefully I can actually find the time to build multiple apps but for now I just wanted a web version with the first utility being a Duration parser.