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@danoak.dev

Senior Software Engineer justeattakeaway.com, ex: clearbank.co.uk ovo.com . I like C# and dotnet, paying video games and listening to loud music ๐Ÿค˜

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You can really tell a lot about a person by how much fresh fruit / veg they have in their fridge

04.03.2026 19:45 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

My workflow these days has recently just been

- Hey Opencode, fetch jira ticket XXXX
- Read the details of the ticket
- Plan the work please
- Looks good, implement please
- Looks good, commit, push & raise a PR

Thanks

25.02.2026 22:32 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
From Code Writers to Agent Pilots | Dan Oak - Software Engineer

doing my bit to fearmonger in the world of agentic software "spec driven" development ๐Ÿ˜‚ danoak.dev/blog/from-co...

29.01.2026 22:19 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Protecting My Peace: How I Stay Motivated Facing 'Impossible' Deadlines In software engineering, there is often a tension between the reality of discovery and the rigidity of a roadmap. We are frequently handed a destination and an arrival time before weโ€™ve even had a cha...

New post!

danoak.dev/blog/protect...

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#peace #blogpost #dev

15.01.2026 21:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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SVG Animations are pretty neat

01.11.2025 17:24 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I use excalidraw for almost all of my mind mapping / whiteboarding ๐Ÿ˜Š I like the handwritten aesthetic it has, but it's not for everyone admittedly.

31.05.2025 15:12 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Official Music Video)
Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Official Music Video) YouTube video by Rick Astley

Wow: after 15 years, YouTube has taken down the original 'Rick Roll' video due to a "licensing issue," likely due to the acquisition of Astley's record lable.

The metadata remains, but if you click through it goes to 'video not found':

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4...

19.05.2025 18:45 ๐Ÿ‘ 5660 ๐Ÿ” 2701 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 500 ๐Ÿ“Œ 804

the year is 2025, and for the first time in my life I actually have no computers in my house running Windows. The Unix life chose me it would seem :D

15.05.2025 21:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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"I've suffered enough" lmao @dailydotdev.bsky.social

07.05.2025 18:29 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

why have 5 lines of powershell when you can have 40 lines of C#

06.05.2025 14:34 ๐Ÿ‘ 20 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is sick

05.05.2025 11:33 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Going to react from JavaScript document.createElement etc it is much the same experience

05.05.2025 07:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

In the UK it is expected that you learn how to drive a stick shift, or manual as we call it here, before you pass your driving test (at least for the full licence). I've been driving for 7 years, and last year I got my first automatic car. It is a blissful experience ๐Ÿ˜‚.

05.05.2025 07:09 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
My Journey to Senior Software Engineer A breakdown of how I ended up in the senior software engineer role

New post!

dan-oak.dev/blog/my-jour...

This is a rundown of how I ended up in a senior engineer position starting way back to the beginning of how I got involved in programming in the first place

03.05.2025 20:20 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Amazing talk Scott ๐Ÿฅฐ I love that you created an open source autopilot tool for your life long illness. Getting in the papers with the backstreet boys hair too is pretty cool ๐Ÿ˜‚

27.04.2025 06:31 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I left my house for 30 minutes this morning, when I come back, there is a workman for the neighbours on my drive ๐Ÿ˜ค asked him to move and he goes "I'll be out of your way in 5 minutes"! Am I crazy or is that insanely disrespectful ๐Ÿคฌ

26.04.2025 09:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Holy moly, nice one Scott ๐Ÿ˜Š I will tune in!

26.04.2025 09:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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a woman in a blue dress is standing in front of a wall with a long blue cloth . ALT: a woman in a blue dress is standing in front of a wall with a long blue cloth .

Or this guy from avatar

22.04.2025 17:19 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Don't care how old you are, you are never too old to feel like aquaman when you control the flow of water from the shower with your arms

22.04.2025 17:17 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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London bus stop near Amazon HQ ๐Ÿ”ฅ

18.04.2025 18:22 ๐Ÿ‘ 36500 ๐Ÿ” 7732 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 321 ๐Ÿ“Œ 268

Incredible that they not only think it's an AI voice and not a recording. But also that the AI is *Siri* of all options ๐Ÿ˜‚

15.04.2025 06:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This morning I am on a bus and the voice recording of the location announcements is very Bristolian and I overheard someone unironically say "amazing how they managed to get their Siri to sound like that".

15.04.2025 06:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Do you think changing the feed feature is what will bring more people to blue sky? I thought most of the users here were just pissed off with seeing Elon bastardise the twitter that we once loved and needed a new home as twitter refugees

12.04.2025 15:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 7 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

public static void main open parentheses string open square bracket close square bracket args close parentheses new line open curly bracket... You get the idea... Doesn't quite have a good enough ring to it for me ๐Ÿ˜‚

01.04.2025 16:07 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Happy (UK) mother's day to all of you mothers out there! My wife celebrated her first mother's day being a mum this year ๐Ÿฅฐ

30.03.2025 19:01 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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What Makes a Great Senior Software Engineer? In my previous blog, I mentioned that I think there are four main components to a great senior...

I just published one of my first dev.to blogs :-) I got to namedrop a few of my favourite creators too!

@cassidoo.co @nickchapsas.com & @fireship.bsky.social

๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿป dev.to/danoak/what-...

Let me know what you think!

#devblog #devpost #programmer #seniorsoftwareengineer

25.03.2025 14:36 ๐Ÿ‘ 15 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Well... You did learn something ๐Ÿ˜‚

20.03.2025 21:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

In the case of iCue there is at least an open source variant that covers most devices but still

06.03.2025 10:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Call me a beta if you want but I tried really hard to main Linux (Pop!_OS) but to be honest there were just too many things that were blocking my usual workflow.

- Logitech G Hub isn't available
- Corsairs iCue
- Some games still don't quite work even despite @valvesoftware.com's proton

06.03.2025 10:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I am still hardstuck C# engineer but I have been branching out to try bits of Golang every now and again. Rust just straight up scares me ๐Ÿ˜‚

04.03.2025 23:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0