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Nick HK

@nickkeers.co.uk

Principal Software Engineer at a startup you havenโ€™t heard of! Interested in #buildinpublic #elixir #python #programming #gamedev #piano, Learning Indonesian ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฉ, #baduk player (iGo, Weiqi, Go)

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This is awesome, really gets the imagination going

19.01.2026 20:45 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

And sorry to point out another, but โ€œinteriorโ€ rather than โ€œintererorโ€ ๐Ÿ˜…

No problem! Best of luck, it looks cool

08.01.2026 11:32 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Cool design, did you mean โ€œbasedโ€ though and not โ€œbakedโ€?

08.01.2026 11:08 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Iโ€™m sure there are beginner classes! Youโ€™re in the ideal place for them :)

03.01.2026 08:24 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Had a great time in Indonesia the last few weeks spending time with the family, now sat in the airport waiting to go home. I wonโ€™t miss having cold showers though ๐Ÿ˜…

03.01.2026 08:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Unfortunately sheโ€™s taking a break from the fermentation at the minute! But glad you think so ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

03.01.2026 08:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I learnt through books to start with - the very basics anyway from Janice Kimโ€™s โ€œlearn to play goโ€ series. And then I started going to local club :)

03.01.2026 08:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This year, to come up with an idea and ship it, itโ€™s time!

03.01.2026 07:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's a shame this mindset exists, when I've been on the other side of hiring i've found that candidates that are looking for FP jobs are usually more motivated and are great to work with, maybe as its so niche

03.10.2025 14:39 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Looks good! Time well spent

03.10.2025 14:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

My first thought was that this would be cool for holding teabags, I love this sort of look and feel of pottery

15.08.2025 10:04 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'd wear a shirt like that! Fuck Wes Streeting, and fuck the Labour party. I won't forget how they've acted.

11.07.2025 08:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Your cat thanks you for your sacrifice...maybe :)

01.07.2025 08:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Actually looks pretty good, and I didnโ€™t think Iโ€™d say that with anything to do with the glass effect

19.06.2025 06:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Selamat siang ๐Ÿ™‚ looks like the UK will be hotter today! Rare for Jakarta

19.06.2025 06:35 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Small steps! Progress is progress

07.06.2025 09:50 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I donโ€™t use regexs often, but you have my attentionโ€ฆ

01.05.2025 21:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Been learning some SwiftUI with a recent purchase which has been interesting! Started making a lil app for my wife to manage fermentation / batch cooking, crazy I have to pay for a developer account to put it on TestFlight though โ€ฆ

17.01.2025 21:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Been struggling for a couple of days, does anyone know how in Astro I can create OpenGraph images from e.g. a cover image I use in blog posts in its meta? I think the issue i'm having is the OG generator cant see the unoptimised image path so i get an error, not sure how to solve it

#AstroJS

18.12.2024 10:11 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Was literally looking into OpenGraph images last night for my blog, some gradient presets would help a lot! I'm absolutely useless at making them...

17.12.2024 11:05 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Nick HK - A language learning chat app with React + FastAPI A personal website built with Astro

Wrote up a little bit about it on my blog here: nickkeers.co.uk/blog/languag...

16.12.2024 22:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Not sure where this will go or if I will carry on, but I've had the idea in my head for a while so wanted to play about with it, obviously the vocabulary above is not real!

16.12.2024 21:22 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A chat UI showing a conversation in Indonesian about the weather

A chat UI showing a conversation in Indonesian about the weather

I just built this Chat UI, its satisfying to build something and still feels a bit like magic to hook it up to an LLM to get replies back. Playing around with language learning again, i know this has been done to death. I plan to add ways to translate / add words to vocabulary #buildinpublic

16.12.2024 21:22 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'd still pet the belly regardless :D its too tempting

15.12.2024 21:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A simple go board implementation showing a board with a number of stones and a turn counter + capture counter

A simple go board implementation showing a board with a number of stones and a turn counter + capture counter

Managed to finally deploy my personal website today! Finally.

Playing around now with making a simple Go board in JS, with the goal of being able to potentially put it into a PWA to use on my phone - also thinking of potentially hooking it up to engines speaking GTP via a websocket bridge ๐Ÿค”

15.12.2024 21:39 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

In a bit of a down period right now, mulling over some new ideas, thinking about starting something smaller scope that can grow / integrate in with what I eventually want to finish. Doing a bit of Advent of code etc though, and waiting for this cold i've picked up to go away!

09.12.2024 21:23 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I get: โ€œAn error occurred in the Server Components render. The specific message is omitted in production builds to avoid leaking sensitive details. A digest property is included on this error instance which may provide additional details about the nature of the error.โ€ On pressing submit ๐Ÿ˜…

07.12.2024 01:20 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I feel this in my bones, I had the exact same problem a while back

05.12.2024 12:17 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

And then there will be one more tool ๐Ÿ˜‰ jesting aside sometimes you just have to get your hands dirty!

05.12.2024 12:08 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
MJML - The Responsive Email Framework The only framework that makes responsive email easy. MJML is a markup language designed to reduce the pain of coding a responsive email.

Keep meaning to try MJML as Iโ€™ve heard good things, all our emails at work are tables based which is justโ€ฆlovely

mjml.io

05.12.2024 12:06 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0